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Scripted by T.E.B. Clarke and directed by Charles Critchton, Hue and Cry is a precursor to the famous Ealing Comedies...in fact, it can be seen as the first Ealing Comedy, although Ealing, despite the film’s success, didn’t notice they had stumbled upon a distinctly British form of comedy until the release of the more famous films a couple ...
Hue and Cry. Edit. Summaries. A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week ...
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 pri...
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In post-WWII London 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.
Hue and Cry (1947) has its quirks about it, but it's done in such a way that it rivals, or even surpasses, its inspiration Emil und die Detektive (1931) (or it's 1935 British remake called Emil and the Detectives) as one of the most brilliant kids adventures of the classic era! Pure mayhem in the ruins of London!
Hue and Cry has since become known as the first of the Ealing comedies proper, and was also the first to make brilliant use of post-war London's exterior locations. The story follows a boy who becomes convinced that a major heist is being planned and executed through the pages of boys' weekly serial The Trump.
Genre: Comedy, Thriller. Rating: 9 (from 2 votes) Review: Alec ( Douglas Barr) is at choir practice, and as he and his fellow singers trill "O For the Wings of a Dove" the vicar notices the boy is not paying as much attention as he should, then discovers the reason: a comic book secreted inside his hymn sheet which the clergyman removes and ...
