West 11

Starring Alfred Lynch, Kathleen Breck, Eric Portman and the inimitable Diana Dors. Based on the novel "The Furnished Room" by Laura Del-Rivo and filmed on location in Notting Hill, Michael Winner foray into British social realism sees an authentic portrayal of the grittier, darker side of West London in the 60s. Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bed-sitter belt is the renegade son of middle-class parents and as he himself describes it, an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life and as a result accepts a criminal commission from a man he meets in a coffee bar. (StudioCanal UK)