Hue and Cry (1947)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 82m
Director: Charles Crichton
Cast: Alastair Sim, Jack Warner
Synopsis:
A master criminal sends coded messages to his operatives via the pages of a children's comic, but a gang of street urchins rumbles him.
Review:
Filmed among the bombed out ruins of the capital, Tebby Clarke's screenplay and Crichton's handling have Italian neo-realism emblazoned across them. Although invariably touted in the reference books as the first Ealing comedy, this is as close to Pink String and Sealing Wax as it is to Whisky Galore, but then the true comedies were never that far from social realism. With music by Georges Auric and camerawork courtesy of Douglas Slocombe, it is at any rate class.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 82m
Director: Charles Crichton
Cast: Alastair Sim, Jack Warner
Synopsis:
A master criminal sends coded messages to his operatives via the pages of a children's comic, but a gang of street urchins rumbles him.
Review:
Filmed among the bombed out ruins of the capital, Tebby Clarke's screenplay and Crichton's handling have Italian neo-realism emblazoned across them. Although invariably touted in the reference books as the first Ealing comedy, this is as close to Pink String and Sealing Wax as it is to Whisky Galore, but then the true comedies were never that far from social realism. With music by Georges Auric and camerawork courtesy of Douglas Slocombe, it is at any rate class.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 82m
Director: Charles Crichton
Cast: Alastair Sim, Jack Warner
Synopsis:
A master criminal sends coded messages to his operatives via the pages of a children's comic, but a gang of street urchins rumbles him.
Review:
Filmed among the bombed out ruins of the capital, Tebby Clarke's screenplay and Crichton's handling have Italian neo-realism emblazoned across them. Although invariably touted in the reference books as the first Ealing comedy, this is as close to Pink String and Sealing Wax as it is to Whisky Galore, but then the true comedies were never that far from social realism. With music by Georges Auric and camerawork courtesy of Douglas Slocombe, it is at any rate class.