Hue and Cry
ComedyCrimeAdventure
6.4/10
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|82 min
Release Date: 1947-02-01
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 Companies
Ealing Studios
User Reviews
CinemaSerf
7/10
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 ...
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