Hue and Cry

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.

Cast

Alastair Sim

as Felix H. Wilkinson

Jack Warner

as Nightingale

Valerie White

as Rhona

Jack Lambert

as Ford

Harry Fowler

as Joe Kirby

Douglas Barr

as Alec

Stanley Escane

as Roy

Ian Dawson

as Norman

Gerald Fox

as Dicky

David Simpson

as Arthur

Reviews

CinemaSerf

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 dar...

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