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Hue and Cry

6.4 82 mins Comedy   Crime   Adventure   1947
Ealing Studios  
Director(s): Charles Crichton

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.

Casts of Hue and Cry

Alastair Sim

as Felix H. Wilkinson

Jack Warner

as Nightingale

Valerie White

as Rhona

Jack Lambert

as Ford

Harry Fowler

as Joe Kirby

Douglas Barr

as Alec

Ian Dawson

as Norman

Gerald Fox

as Dicky

David Simpson

as Arthur

Albert Hughes

as Wally

John Hudson

as Stan

David Knox

as Dusty

Jeffrey Sirett

as Bill

James Crabbe

as Terry

Joan Dowling

as Clarry

Frederick Piper

as Mr. Kirby

Vida Hope

as Mrs. Kirby

Heather Delaine

as Dorrie Kirby

Paul Demel

as Jago

Alec Finter

as Det.-Sgt. Fothergill

Bruce Belfrage

as B.B.C. Announcer

Grace Arnold

as Dicky’s Mother

Arthur Denton

as Vicar

Robin Hughes

as Selwyn Pike

Howard Douglas

as Watchman

Harry Purvis

as Larry the Bull

Joey Carr

as Shorty

Peter Mullins

as Boy (uncredited)

Andrew Sachs

as Schoolboy (uncredited)

Fred Wood

as Congregation Member (uncredited)

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