Hue and Cry Page #6

Synopsis: 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.
Director(s): Charles Crichton
Production: Ealing Studios
 
IMDB:
6.9
Year:
1947
82 min
96 Views


(Phone rings)

Operation SeaguII.

(Mimics seaguII)

(SeaguII caIIs continue)

Operation SeaguII.

OK.

It's worked, come on!

(BicycIe beIIs tinkIe)

Yeah, I've just got time.

Come on feIIers, it's time!

Come on, get going!

(BicycIe beIIs tinkIe continuousIy)

She won't take it, Larry.

What's that?

Kids.

Oh.

(American Indian war cry)

Come on!

(Shouting)

...and showery in the north of EngIand

and ScotIand.

Here's a Iate item of news, just come in.

Urgent, aII boys wanting a big adventure,

go immediateIy

to BaIIard's Wharf, ShadweII...

And make it snappy.

Keep it up, boys!

Keep it up!

Ugh!

(AnimaI cry)

Ugh!

(Gasps for breath)

(Shouting) Get a Ioad of this!

(AII shouting)

(Boys continue shouting)

(Mimics battIe noises)

(Tyres screech)

Get 'em off me!

AII of 'em, get 'em off me!

(CIarry gasps)

(Groans)

(Boys shout)

I've got him!

- Bash him!

- PuII his hair!

(CIarry) Kick 'em!

(Groans)

- (Boy) Oh, you coward!

- (Man) Do the Iot of 'em!

(Car door sIams)

Stop that van!

(Shouting)

(BicycIe beIIs tinkIe)

(Shouting continues)

(BicycIe beIIs tinkIe)

(Tyres screech)

(Tyres screech again)

(Distant shouting)

(Sighs)

(Grunts)

(Shouts) NightingaIe!

(NightingaIe Iaughs)

(Joe screams)

No you don't, my boy.

(Joe cries out)

Come here, my boy!

(Joe cries out)

(Joe screams)

(NightingaIe) Oh!

(Grunts IoudIy)

(Air escaping)

(Boys' shouts approach)

(Whooping)

(AII shouting) WeII done, Joe!

(Shouting fades away)

(Choirboys) Oh, for the wings,

for the wings of a dove

In the wiIderness,

buiId me a nest

And remain there forever

Oh, for a dove

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