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.

Genre : ComedyCrimeAdventure

Runtime : 82 mins

Release Date : 1947-02-01

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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 da...

Cast

Alastair Sim

(Felix H. Wilkinson)

Jack Warner

(Nightingale)

Valerie White

(Rhona)

Jack Lambert

(Ford)

Harry Fowler

(Joe Kirby)

Douglas Barr

(Alec)

Stanley Escane

(Roy)

Ian Dawson

(Norman)

Gerald Fox

(Dicky)

David Simpson

(Arthur)

Albert Hughes

(Wally)

John Hudson

(Stan)

David Knox

(Dusty)

Jeffrey Sirett

(Bill)

James Crabbe

(Terry)

Joan Dowling

(Clarry)

Frederick Piper

(Mr. Kirby)

Vida Hope

(Mrs. Kirby)

Heather Delaine

(Dorrie Kirby)

Paul Demel

(Jago)

Alec Finter

(Det.-Sgt. Fothergill)

Bruce Belfrage

(B.B.C. Announcer)

Grace Arnold

(Dicky’s Mother)

Arthur Denton

(Vicar)

Robin Hughes

(Selwyn Pike)

Howard Douglas

(Watchman)

Harry Purvis

(Larry the Bull)

Joey Carr

(Shorty)

Peter Mullins

(Boy (uncredited))

Andrew Sachs

(Schoolboy (uncredited))

Fred Wood

(Congregation Member (uncredited))