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A Cry from the Streets

A Cry from the Streets

7,1 /10 (8 Votes)
1958 EN 99 min

Overview

Bittersweet story about London's unwanted children and the good people trying to help them. Ann is a social worker, while Bill is an electrician whose contract with the local care home introduces him to the children and Ann. Events start to escalate out of control when a child takes possession of a loaded gun.

Release date

12/08/1958

Votes

8

Popularity

0.3

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

99 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2022-03-27

⭐ 6

This got a BAFTA nod for Best British Screenplay and you can easily see why. It is a gentle, almost nostalgic, reminder of how different society was in the UK 60 years ago. Barbara Murray ("Ann") is a social worker struggling to look after a collection of kids from a variety of disadvantaged backgrounds. She meets and falls for the kind, gentle, real-life crooner Max Bygraves ("Bill") who has some fairly traumatic baggage of his own, and they both set about trying to bring a little happiness to themselves and to their young charges. This doesn't pull it's punches - not that it is gory, or visu…

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