Hue and Cry
01/02/1947
1h 22m



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.
Cast


Alastair Sim
Felix H. Wilkinson


Jack Warner
Nightingale


Valerie White
Rhona


Jack Lambert
Ford


Harry Fowler
Joe Kirby
Douglas Barr
Alec
Stanley Escane
Roy
Ian Dawson
Norman
Gerald Fox
Dicky
David Simpson
Arthur
Albert Hughes
Wally
John Hudson
Stan
David Knox
Dusty
Jeffrey Sirett
Bill
James Crabbe
Terry


Joan Dowling
Clarry


Frederick Piper
Mr. Kirby


Vida Hope
Mrs. Kirby
Heather Delaine
Dorrie Kirby
Paul Demel
Jago
Alec Finter
Det.-Sgt. Fothergill


Bruce Belfrage
B.B.C. Announcer


Grace Arnold
Dicky’s Mother
Arthur Denton
Vicar


Robin Hughes
Selwyn Pike


Howard Douglas
Watchman
Harry Purvis
Larry the Bull
Joey Carr
Shorty
Peter Mullins
Boy (uncredited)


Andrew Sachs
Schoolboy (uncredited)
Fred Wood
Congregation Member (uncredited)
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