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Hue and Cry

  • 19471947
  • 1h 22m
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6.7/10
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Hue and Cry (1947)
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A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing com... Read allA gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.
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  • Director
    • Charles Crichton
  • Writer
    • T.E.B. Clarke(original screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Alastair Sim
    • Frederick Piper
    • Harry Fowler
  • Director
    • Charles Crichton
  • Writer
    • T.E.B. Clarke(original screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Alastair Sim
    • Frederick Piper
    • Harry Fowler
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    • 30User reviews
    • 26Critic reviews
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    Alastair Sim
    Alastair Sim
    • Felix H. Wilkinson
    Frederick Piper
    • Mr. Kirby
    Harry Fowler
    Harry Fowler
    • Joe Kirby
    Vida Hope
    • Mrs. Kirby
    Heather Delaine
    • Dorrie Kirby
    Douglas Barr
    • Alec
    Stanley Escane
    • Roy
    Ian Dawson
    • Norman
    Gerald Fox
    • Dicky
    David Simpson
    • Arthur
    Albert Hughes
    • Wally
    John Hudson
    John Hudson
    • Stan
    David Knox
    • Dusty
    Jeffrey Sirett
    • Bill
    James Crabbe
    • Terry
    • (as James Crabb)
    Joan Dowling
    • Clarry
    Jack Warner
    Jack Warner
    • Jim Nightingale
    Valerie White
    Valerie White
    • Rhona
    • Director
      • Charles Crichton
    • Writer
      • T.E.B. Clarke(original screenplay)
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Harry Fowler later married fellow actress Joan Dowling, but sadly she committed suicide in 1954, aged just 26.
    • Goofs
      When Joe Kirby first looks at the milk bar shop front (near the beginning, just after asking the man with the open top car if he is Selwyn Pike), the light fitting casts a very long shadow. But in the next shot of the shop, it is lit from a different direction, and the shadow has completely changed in length and position.
    • Quotes

      [Joe has pleaded with Wilkinson to write a story to entrap the crooks; Wilkinson will have to stay up all night to write it]

      Felix H. Wilkinson: Oh, how I loathe adventurous-minded boys.

    • Crazy credits
      Opening credits appear in chalk on a brick wall on a bomb site.
    • Connections
      Featured in Tuesday's Documentary: The Ealing Comedies or Kind Hearts and Overdrafts (1970)
    • Soundtracks
      Oh For the Wings of A Dove
      (uncredited)

      Music by Felix Mendelssohn

      Arranged by Ernest Irving

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    7/10
    Angels with Dirty Faces, East End style..
    I SO would have loved this movie as a kid; but being far too young, I'm now only getting into these lesser known Ealings as a middle-aged film lover. Hue & Cry is part of the Ealing Comedy DVD Collection.

    From what I've heard from older folk and relatives about the just post- war years, this yarn is plain good old fashioned fun, but one for the boys only, whatever their age. With bombed-out London their playground and comics their fantastical relief, young boys run around pursuing adventure at every turn. This is where I get my Angels with Dirty Faces connection from.

    A few disgruntled viewers say that Hue & Cry lacks focus and central characters. This is true - a boy's adventure never runs to plan and if it does, you change it! But, seen as the first Ealing comedy proper, the Studio is still finding its feet and is gathering talented people to direct (Charles Chricton, who directed many BIG Ealings) screenwriters (T.E.B Clarke, who is synonymous with Ealing) and one very accomplished cinematographer, Douglas Slocombe, who here manages some Hitchcockian imagery - such as on a spiral staircase and in a room full of circus dummies. Otherwise, it's brisk, the camera darting about, with a film score every bit as vibrant as the escapades.

    No-one ever, though, denies the pull and special attraction of Alistair Sim as the eccentric Comic strip creator, a Scrooge-like hermit living at the top of those scary stairs. That he isn't on screen very much just happens to be one of those things, relish him when he is on, that's all you can do.

    The story, now, to an adult takes second fiddle - lots of boyish conspiracies and such, avoiding the police and the occasional fight. Something about a missing page in their favourite comic and they have to use passwords and such, getting caught in gangster Jack Warner's wide- boy gangsterish crook (as far cry from his beloved Dixon of Dock Green!). It is the sights - and sounds - of an almost alien London, only a generation ago that makes it all so watchable - and enjoyable. Unlike today, with our comparatively lazy and health and safety pampered youth, these boy actors literally pour gusto and energy into everything, swarming over a rubbled landscape like herds of buffalo in a western.

    The sound is often a bit thin and distorted but the picture quality not as bad as it could be, a little lacking in punch perhaps but surprisingly blemish-free.
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    • Release date
      • October 10, 1947 (Belgium)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Hajka
    • Filming locations
      • Former bomb-site between Queen Street Place and Cousin Lane, London, England, UK(Ballard's Wharf)
    • Production company
      • Ealing Studios
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 22 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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