Hue and Cry (1947)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.0/10   

Director:

Charles Crichton

Guionista:

T.E.B. Clarke (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

febrero 1947 (UK)

Género:

Aventura | Comedia | Crimen

Plot:

A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week...

Plot Keywords:

Ealing | Secret Code | Smuggling | Secret Master Villain | Misleading Star Billing

Comentarios de los usuarios:

The First 'Ealing' Comedy

Reparto

Alastair Sim	...	Felix H. Wilkinson
Harry Fowler	...	Joe Kirby
Douglas Barr	...	Alec
Joan Dowling	...	Clarry
Jack Warner	...	Nightingale
Valerie White	...	Rhona
Jack Lambert	...	Ford
Ian Dawson	...	Norman
Gerald Fox	...	Dicky
David Simpson	...	Arthur
Albert Hughes	...	Wally
John Hudson	...	Stan
David Knox	...	Dusty
Jeffrey Sirett	...	Bill
James Crabbe	...	Terry (as James Crabb)

También conocida como:

Hue & Cry (UK) (poster title)

Duración:

82 min

País:

UK

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | Germany:12 | Finland:S | UK:U

Locaciones de Filmación:

Ealing Studios, Ealing, London, England, UK

Compañía:

Ealing Studios

Trivialidades:

Harry Fowler later married fellow actress Joan Dowling, but sadly she committed suicide in 1954, aged just 26.

Errores:

Continuidad: When Joe Kirby first looks at the milk bar shop front (near the beginning, just after asking the man with the open top car if he is Selwyn Pike), the light fitting casts a very long shadow. But in the next shot of the shop, it is lit from a different direction, and the shadow has completely changed in length and position.

Citas:

Felix H. Wilkinson: Oh, how I loathe adventurous-minded boys.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Forever Ealing (2002) (TV)

Banda de Sonido:

Music

The First 'Ealing' Comedy

Generally reckoned to be the first 'Ealing' comedy,a fondly-regarded series of gentle,humorous satires of British life in the late 1940's-early 1950's,this is actually more of a rowdy,fast-paced crime caper than what gradually developed to the above familiar style of this famous film studio.However,it is none the worse for that,with an amusing script and speedy direction by Ealing veterans TEB Clarke and Charles Crichton,and efficient performances by a mostly teenage cast.Looking from a 21st Century viewpoint,it is an astonishing fact how UK teens dressed (in dull tweed suits) and behaved (no guns,knives or bad language) in the pre-rock n' roll era;in this more cynical day and age,it would be the adults stopping the kids committing crime rather than vice versa.This actually helps the film in giving it a quaint period charm which will never be recaptured,as is the well-photographed scenes of war-torn London.Alastair Sim is billed first but the real leading man is inimitable cockney actor Harry Fowler,while the usually genial Jack Warner (a little uncomfortably) is the main adult protagonist,a ruthless villain;Sim is enjoyably buffoonish as a cartoonist,but his is basically a minor character and little seen despite his top billing. The highlight is the final battle between the criminal gang and London street urchins who seem to swarm over their prey like soldier ants.The sequence is funny,exhilarating,thrilling and even spectacular.

HUE AND CRY isn't the best Ealing comedy,and not necessarily the most typical,but despite dated elements is still largely very enjoyable and pleasantly nostalgic for older film-goers.

RATING:7 and a half out of 10.