West 11

The film is set in London in the early sixties, in a district of jazz clubs, coffee bars and single rented rooms. Joe Beckett is a young man out of work who belongs nowhere and keeps moving on. His life gets worse still when he meets a former army officer; what the man offers him promises easy money but costs a great deal. The account shows not the freedom of youth but the emptiness beneath that freedom. The film comes from the vein of British cinema of the period that dealt harshly with class and with the city. Alfred Lynch and Eric Portman appear in Michael Winner’s ninety three minute British film, completed in 1963.