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Wide Boy is a 1952 British second feature ('B') crime film directed by Ken Hughes and starring Susan Shaw, Sydney Tafler and Ronald Howard. It was Hughes' feature directorial debut. He later called it "pretty terrible".
Wide Boy: Directed by Ken Hughes. With Sydney Tafler, Susan Shaw, Melissa Stribling, Colin Tapley. Benny steals Caroline's purse and finds a letter revealing her affair with married surgeon Mannering. Benny blackmails them, leading to murder.
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- Crime, Drama
- Ken Hughes
- 1952-12
Wide Boy (1952) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
In Ken Hughes’s simple, compact, gripping noir, Wide Boy, the title character isn’t the widest boy of the bunch but lucks out when he stumbles upon a neglected purse in a bar and finds a potential goldmine inside.
Benny makes a precarious living selling black market nylons, but soon finds himself involved in blackmail. Wide Boy is a late edition to the post-war 'spiv' cycle, which had articulated a mood of cynicism and disillusion that counter pointed Labour's New Jerusalem.
- Ken Hughes
- Merton Park
- Nat Cohen
- William Fairchild
After stumbling on an important letter, the fortunes of a petty criminal (Sidney Tafler) seem to be looking up, but his attempts at blackmail soon lead to an increasingly severe series of consequences, in a crime drama with Susan Shaw and Ronald Howard.
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Wide Boy. Summaries. The title, in British police parlance of the day, defines a petty crook whose criminal activities are minor and legal-borderline, but the title character in this film appears to stretch the definition.
