Hue and Cry
“The Film that Begs to Differ”
6.4(49)19471h 22m
ComedyCrimeAdventure
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.
Director
Charles Crichton
Cast
Reviews
1 review
Geronimo1967
3y ago
7.0
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 ...
