In contrast, Nigel Andrews found the characters to be clichéd archetypes of the criminal underworld, such as the "homosexual chauffeur, bloated tycoon, glamorous mistress", describing the film as "perfunctory".

Jack’s presence in the town causes unease among the local crime families, who fear that his snooping will interfere with their underworld operations. Describing the initial critical response to the film, Steve Chibnall wrote "Initial critical vilification or indifference establishes the conditions in which a cult can flourish. she may only be 15 and an orphan to boot, but her name crops up increasingly and in ever more lurid circumstances.But the closer he gets to the people who run the town’s illegal activities, the people who can tell him what happened, the more contact he has with its upper classes. The true reasons for TV’s emergence as the preeminent mass medium of the early 21st century are primarily external to the actual business of creating. Whilst the movie changed some elements of Lewis’ novel – notably resetting the story in Newcastle and the nature of the climax – it retains the core plot progression and atmosphere.

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Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. and it could be argued that the disillusionment dawning upon people then made out that the business of crime was no better or worse that what was around them.

Indeed, the film did have an old-world charm to it… even as it swung that shotgun down on to someone’s head.

Lewis had a shrewd eye for the shifting class politics of late-’60s England, the point at which the austerity of the postwar years had melted away and prosperity was slowly creeping into the regions, creating a new middle class. Since then the smelters whose bricks stacks stuck up tall against a gloomy mountain to the south had yellow-smoked everything into uniform dinginess. I don't want to give anything away, so I'll just say that the reasons behind Jack's brother's death are odious and give even more cause for revenge.Once in Newcastle he is met with a wall of silence as he tries to uncover why and how is brother was killed and more importantly who killed him. The majority of the film's music was composed by Roy Budd, a jazz pianist and composer, who had previously worked on soundtracks for Soldier Blue and Flight of the Doves. Ted Lewis died in 1982 having published seven more novels and written several episodes for the television series Z-Cars.