Product Details

• Actors: Grace Arnold, Bruce Belfrage, Howard Douglas, Joan Dowling, Alec Finter
• Format: Black & White, DVD, Original recording remastered, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Wham! USA
• DVD Release Date: February 3, 2009
• Run Time: 79 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001E1B6CU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #185,647 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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HUE AND CRY - DVD Movie

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Ealing Studios production, February 25, 2009

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Dirk (Omaha, NE USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Hue and Cry (DVD)

Hue and Cry, an Ealing Studios production from 1947, tells the story of a group of kids in London, who stumble upon a gang of criminals using a code in a comic book serial to communicate details of their next caper. Alastair Sim, the only "name" person in the cast, does an excellent job in a fairly small role. I am always a bit leary of off-brand DVDs, but this disc by Wham!USA has a good print, with good audio. There are no subtitles, and no real extras. A well-done little adventure movie.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Crooks beware when the kids of London go into action. Hugh and Cry is amusing, wry and endearing, April 2, 2009

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C. O. DeRiemer (San Antonio, Texas, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hue & Cry ( Hue and Cry ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2.4 Import - Netherlands ] (DVD)

Joe (Harry Fowler), a London East End kid, is addicted to a boy's adventure weekly called The Trump. He begins to suspect that a series of burglaries somehow are related to the weekly storyline. Joe figures out that there are hidden messages in the story that tell gang members the place and time of the next store to be hit. Joe convinces the other boys in the neighborhood and they go to the cops. When the police don't believe them, they set out on their own to stop the gang and capture the ringleader. They quickly find themselves trying to stop a burglary in a department store...then getting noticed by Jim Nightingale, a tough greengrocer (Jack Warner)...and then kidnapping a luscious blond secretary who may know more than she lets on. All this proves easier than dealing with Felix H. Wilkinson (Alastair Sim), the eccentric writer of the The Trump's storyline. Felix Wilkinson is a man with a strong distaste for small boys.

The film's climax is the wonderful Battle of Ballards Wharf, where it seems every kid in London comes running to the docks to help confront the bad guys.

Hue and Cry is considered the first of the Ealing comedies, a string of very funny British films put out by Ealing from the late Forties to the mid-Fifties. The film was shot in 1947, most of it on location, and piles of brick and rubble from WWII bombing are much in evidence. Alastair Sim gives a batty, droll performance as Wilkinson, but the star really is Harry Fowler. He's completely believable as a Cockney kid outraged that crooks would use The Trump for their criminal purposes. This is a funny, good-hearted movie, very much of its time and place.