About this title: Alastair Sim is a delight to behold as always in the British Hue and Cry, but the film's true star is approximately 40 years younger and two feet shorter than the estimable Sim. Harry Fowler plays Joe Kirby, an intelligent cockney lad who is addicted to a weekly boys' magazine. He begins to notice a curious pattern emerging in the dialogue of a serialized blood-and-thunder detective story. And well he should: a gang of literate crooks are using that story to transmit information concerning robberies, smuggling, fencing, and the like. When the local constabulary refuse to take Joe's warnings ...
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Description: Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Harry Fowler, Frederick Piper, Vida Hope, Valerie White, Heather Delaine, Jack Lambert. New in new packaging. 1947 Run time: 82. Set in London's bombed-out East End, a young cockney lad discovers that a gang of crooks is using his favorite magazine to send messages concerning their crimes. When the cops don't believe him, he must rally his buddies together and thwart the bad guys! Produced by Michael Balcon. read more
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Description: Sim, Alastair. Good in good packaging. 12/07/1999 VHS is in PAL format (not compatible in NTSC only VCR players). Dispatched same day from warehouse, VHS in good or better condition. read more
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