Hue and Cry
6.7
“The Film that Begs to Differ”
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.
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Cast
31 people
Alastair Sim
Felix H. Wilkinson
Known for
Scrooge
An Inspector Calls
Jack Warner
Nightingale
Known for
The Ladykillers
The Blue Lamp
Valerie White
Rhona
Also in
The Halfway House
Travels with My Aunt
Jack Lambert
Ford
Known for
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
They Came from Beyond Space
Harry Fowler
Joe Kirby
Known for
Great
The Nanny
Douglas Barr
Alec
Also in
Madeleine
Fortune Lane
Stanley Escane
Roy
Also in
I Believe in You
Cosh Boy
Ian Dawson
Norman
Gerald Fox
Dicky
Also in
Fame Is the Spur
Brothers in Law
David Simpson
Arthur
Albert Hughes
Wally
John Hudson
Stan
Charles Crichton Director · T. E. B. Clarke Screenplay Douglas Slocombe Cinematographer
United States release February 3, 2009 · Produced in United Kingdom
Production
Ealing Studios
Production · Studio
United Kingdom
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United Kingdom · February 1, 1947
Theatrical
United States · February 3, 2009
Physical · DVD
United States
April 21, 2020 · Physical · Blu-ray
United Kingdom
June 29, 2015 · Physical · Blu-ray
XC
December 5, 1947 · Theatrical
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