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.
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"From director Charles Crichton who made the classic A Fish called Wanda in 1988 is this early effort from 1947, Hue and Cry. A crime caper focussed on kids who discover a criminal ring that are using a comic strip to send instructions to plan their jobs. Joe Kirby (Harry Fowler) is a lad who is always in a spot of bother. He is placed by a policeman for a job with a Covent Garden grocer Nightingale (Jack Warner) who listens to his stories of a fur smuggling ring with a filthy laugh. Felix Wilkinson (Alastair Sim) is the scatty comic strip writer who stories are being manipulated by an insid..."
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Harry Fowler later married fellow actress Joan Dowling, but sadly she committed suicide in 1954, aged just 26.
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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.