Joe jumps on to Nightingale, sprawled out below, winding him completely just as the police arrive. Nightingale runs into a bombed building and, after a fight with Joe, Nightingale falls through one of the many holes in the floor. Nightingale tries to flee in a van, but Joe leaps aboard and causes it to crash. Heading for Ballard's Wharf, the crooks are outnumbered by hundreds of boys who capture them. However, when the other crooks arrive, Nightingale doesn't know the password as he never finished the latest comic story. Joe goes to the warehouse and finds the stolen furs but is disturbed by Nightingale. Nightingale and Miss Davis review the latest Trump story and are amused at Joe's attempt to capture them, that is until Nightingale realises Joe has caught him out by sending the crooks to Nightingale's own warehouse. Next day, Joe tells Nightingale the whole plan, but then realises he is the mastermind as his car number plate matches. Joe then gets Wilkinson to create a Trump story that sends all the criminals to Ballard's Wharf. One of Joe's gang gets in the villain's car unnoticed and hears that stolen goods are being moved to Ballard's Wharf but without seeing that it is Nightingale. Joe then telephones Nightingale, who then rescues Miss Davis. After following her home, the boys tie her up. Norman then tells the kids about Rhona Davis (Valerie White) who also works at the Trump. At the store, Joe's gang think they have overpowered the thieves but it is really the police, who have been tipped off anonymously. Here Joe meets Norman and together they work out the code from the next issue - 'Tattoo Jack's’ plan to rob an Oxford Street department store. Joe tells the police but nobody listens so he visits the offices of the Trump. He sees the criminals are using the codes from the comic to communicate their plans but, fearful of the gang, Wilkinson refuses to aid the boys. Joe and Alec find Wilkinson's house, find out the comic's editions are being manipulated and tell Wilkinson. To find out more they visit the comic's writer, Felix Wilkinson ( Alastair Sim). Joe says he thinks criminals are planning jobs via the Trump. Later, in a hideout in a bombed-out building, Joe's friends tease him about the incident, until another boy says he saw a truck with GZ 4216 plate that morning. Ford sends Joe to meet a Covent Garden grocer, Nightingale ( Jack Warner), for a job. A policeman, Inspector Ford, tells Joe to stop letting his imagination run wild. Jago catches Joe and calls the police but he does not press charges. Joe gets a friend to distract Jago so he can search the crates. ![]() ![]() Even the truck number plate-GZ 4216-matches the comic. While reading one part of the latest story, Joe finds the comic adventure being repeated exactly in real life when he comes across two men carrying a crate (Joe thinks it contains corpses) into Mr Jago's fur shop. He then buys a copy so he can follow the adventures of fictional detective Selwyn Pike. London forms the backdrop of a crime- gangster plot which revolves around a working class children's street culture and children's secret clubs.įollowing church choir practice in 1946 east London, Joe Kirby ( Harry Fowler) reads aloud to his gang (The Blood and Thunder Boys) from the Trump boys' comic, but finds a page missing. Shot almost entirely on location, it is now a notable historic document due to its vivid portrait of a London still showing the damage of the Second World War. It is generally considered to be the first of the Ealing comedies, although it is better characterised as a thriller for children. Hue and Cry is a 1947 British film directed by Charles Crichton and starring Alastair Sim, Harry Fowler and Joan Dowling.
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