A Place to Go is a 1963 British crime drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Bernard Lee, Rita Tushingham and Michael Sarne.

Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in the East End of London, it charts the dramatic changes that were then happening in the lives of the British working class, fitting into the kitchen sink school of film-making that was popular in Britain at the time.

In order to get the money to leave, Ricky agrees to help a local gangster, Jack Ellerman, to rob the cigarette factory, and also gets Jim, a lorry driver hoping to buy an expensive transport licence, to join the plot.

Ricky finds himself attracted to Catherine "Cat" Donovan, who has been dating Charlie Batey, another member of Jack's gang.

When Matt finds Jack and his gang meeting Ricky and Jim at the Flints' house his anger, on top of the stress of busking, causes him to suffer a fatal stroke.

When Jim changes his mind about the robbery Jack postpones it, and they set fire to the van that night in revenge.

Ricky flees the scene upset and, longing for his father, tries to simulate Matt's fire-breathing act: that is how he burns his face.

"[5] Variety wrote: "The experienced team of Michael Relph and Basil Dearden might well have been expected to come across with a more lively, incisive treatment of even such a tired old theme as A Place To Go.

Rita Tushingham and Bernard Lee do what they can with a dodgy script, while director Basil Dearden captures something of the flavour of the East End.