Violent Playground

Shot on location at Gerard Gardens in Liverpool where director Basil Dearden thought the Art Deco tenements were a good representation of a city slum. However, the film's set dressers thought the area was not dilapidated enough and set out to make it so - much to the dismay of the inhabitants. Built in 1935 and modeled on working class housing then being built in Germany and Austria, the complex was demolished in 1987.

Despite its Liverpool setting, not a single character speaks with a Merseyside (Liverpool) accent in the entire film.