Man of Violence

Man of Violence, also known as Moon and The Sex Racketeers, is a 1970 British crime film co-written, produced and directed by Pete Walker and starring Michael Latimer, Virginia Wetherell and Luan Peters, and Derek Aylward.

Plot
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.

Cast

 * Michael Latimer as Moon
 * Luan Peters as Angel
 * Derek Aylward as Nixon
 * Maurice Kaufmann as Charles Grayson
 * Derek Francis as Sam Bryant
 * Kenneth Hendel as Hunt
 * George Belbin as Burgess
 * Sydney Conabere as Alex Powell
 * Erika Raffael as Goose
 * Virginia Wetherell as Gale
 * Steve Emerson as Steve
 * Peter Thornton as Mike
 * Michael Balfour as cafe owner
 * John Keston as Girling
 * Jessica Spencer as Joyce
 * The Wishful Thinking as themselves

Production
The film was shot on location in England and Tunisia.

Critical reception
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."

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. 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."