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Hue and Cry

The Film that Begs to Differ

6.5(50)19471h 22m1

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.

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Language
English
  • gang leader
  • gang
  • black and white
  • boys
  • bombed building
  • lighthearted
  • city in ruins
  • optimistic

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United Kingdom

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  • United StatesUS

    • PhysicalNRDVD3 Feb 2009
    • PhysicalNRBlu-ray21 Apr 2020
  • United KingdomGB

    • TheatricalU1 Feb 1947
    • PhysicalUBlu-ray29 Jun 2015
  • XCXC

    • Theatrical5 Dec 1947

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Hue and Cry was released on 1 February 1947.

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    CinemaSerf

    11/10/2022

    7/10

    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 together, and with t…

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