Hell Is Empty (1967) Poster

(1967)

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searchanddestroy-129 March 2009
Warning: Spoilers
The perfect example of European crap that invaded screens in the mid sixties and early seventies. Productions from Germany, Italy, France, Yugoslavia, Spain or even England. We seldom found US actors, lost in these features. Some are good, a very few excellent, but the most are forgettable, because too much expectable in the topics and very badly acted. With no talent, only for food or paying electricity bills.

The heist sequence at the beginning of the film is exciting - I am a great heist movie lover - but the following, the escaping of the robbers in the country side, where they hide in a mansion, becomes suddenly boring. Talkative and predictable. You guess conflicts among the hoods because of a girl, and you presume good.

The ending is not better. A trial sequence that seems no to finish.

Forget it.

Bernard Knowles gives here his last movie. Sad swan song.
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3/10
Entertaingly dreadful
erizia10 November 2022
I watched this film in the summer of 69 whilst on holiday in the seaside town of Bournmouth.

It was the support feature to Carry On Camping and, in fact, my companions and I found it a good deal funnier. But, alas, not for the "right" reasons.

Rarely has such a talented cast been put to such poor use. Quite simply this is the corniest, most clichéd, wooden ly directed, direly scripted piece of tosh you are ever likely to encounter.

I urge you to see it.

Anthony Steel plays a gang leader with no redeeming qualities ;James Robinson Justice is the avuncular moral compass ;Shirley Ann Field is (as ever) great to look at, but given a role so shallow and lines so weak that one wonders what the film producers "had over" her, in order to get to participate in this rubbish.

Then Jess Conrad turns up as "good kid" who just got in with the "wrong crowd".

The court room scene in particular is worth enduring the rest of the drudgery.

An absolute scream and a must for all lovers cult tosh.
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