Hue and Cry
The Film that Begs to Differ
Overview
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.
- Production
- Ealing Studios
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Cast
Alastair Sim
Felix H. Wilkinson
Jack Warner
Nightingale
Valerie White
Rhona
Jack Lambert
Ford
Harry Fowler
Joe Kirby
Joan Dowling
Clarry
Frederick Piper
Mr. Kirby
Vida Hope
Mrs. Kirby
Bruce Belfrage
B.B.C. Announcer
Grace Arnold
Dicky’s Mother
Robin Hughes
Selwyn Pike
Howard Douglas
Watchman
Andrew Sachs
Schoolboy (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Charles Crichton
- Writers
- T. E. B. Clarke
- Producers
- Michael Balcon
- Cinematography
- Douglas Slocombe
- Composer
- Georges Auric
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CinemaSerf
November 10, 2022
This is one of the lesser known Ealing comedies and it has something of the Children's Film Foundation output to it too, as the youngsters cotton on to a dastardly plan to use the narrative bubbles in a children's comic to convey messages that unwittingly to the publisher and animator facilitate daring robberies. It's only when the young "Joe" (Harry Fowler) and his mates start to put two and two together, and with the help of "Felix" (Alastair Sim) they start to hone in on the kingpin - safe in…