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There’s still time to catch Hue and Cry, possibly my favourite Ealing Comedy, on BBC iPlayer before it expires early tomorrow morning.
It’s a tale of working-class street kids who discover criminals are sending cryptic messages through children’s comic stories. Amid the ruins of post-war London, their initial scrapping and fisticuffs give way to a show of solidarity and collective discipline that would leave most revolutionaries envious.
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