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Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - one of Ealing's first, and fabulous
A wonderful film for young and old. The heroes are a group of boys, and one girl who mixes it up with the best of them: post-WWII Baker-Street Irregulars. There's intrigue and suspense, and Alastair Sim at his comic best as a timid writer of tabloid adventure thrillers.
How sad that this film is not available on a Region 1 dvd! But if you have a multi-region dvd player, you can order it from Amazon.co.uk for £9.03, including shipping (about $18.00 as of this writing).
Rating:  - An enjoyable film!
In the reduced list of the most relevant films of U.K. made in the late forties, this is one of the top ones. A meek detective story writer and a group of kids crack a gang of thieves. This was the same team who eventually made "The lavender hill mob."
Rating: - Amusing, Wry And Endearing
Hue and Cry is considered the first of the Ealing comedies, a string of very funny British films put out by Ealing from the late Forties to the mid-Fifties.
Joe (Harry Fowler), a London East End kid, is addicted to a boy's adventure weekly called The Trump. He begins to suspect that a series of burglaries somehow are related to the weekly storyline...that there are hidden messages in the story that tell gang members the place and time of the next store to be hit. Harry convinces the ... Read More
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