Unprinciped loan shark Moon is hired for industrial espionage by tycoon Sam Bryant, who also pays him to investigate protection racketeer Charles Grayson. At the same time he is hired by Grayson to investigate Bryant's business dealings. Moon gets caught up in a stolen gold operation also involving Bryant and Grayson.
Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Abysmal espionage melodrama, spiced with sex episodes and outbursts of violence, with an overly intricate plot which is, perhaps fortunately, impossible to follow. The general level of the acting matches the inanity of the script."[2]
Home media
The BFI have released Man of Violence on DVD and Blu-ray through its Flipside strand, together with the film The Big Switch.[3] The sleve notes state: "Pete Walker's affectionate low-budget homage to the gangster thriller is packed with sights and sounds from a Britain about to swing out of the Sixties and into a somewhat less optimistic decade. Man of Violence offers not only rare glimpses of a world gone by but also some twists on generic convention."[4]
References
^"Man of Violence". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
