Cary Grant looks as confused as the viewer feels in this dingy oddball wartime drama.
Grant is a lad in London, apparently 15 years old (?) and looking at least 45, who gets involved with a group of gangsters and the gangster boss's former wife.
His mother runs a second hand shop and his father seems to live elsewhere and only turns up occasionally.
All the people speak in music hall cockney and have gas lighting in this contemporary film. They're apparently too poor to own a wireless but they hire taxis (there's a perfectly good tram only a few yards away !). There is a kindly Jewish pawnbroker who offers financial assistance even though they are themselves in fact in the same business. In a scene near the end the mother asks if its raining outside when she can clearly see so through the window. Product placement – Oxo stock cubes.
Grant is a lad in London, apparently 15 years old (?) and looking at least 45, who gets involved with a group of gangsters and the gangster boss's former wife.
His mother runs a second hand shop and his father seems to live elsewhere and only turns up occasionally.
All the people speak in music hall cockney and have gas lighting in this contemporary film. They're apparently too poor to own a wireless but they hire taxis (there's a perfectly good tram only a few yards away !). There is a kindly Jewish pawnbroker who offers financial assistance even though they are themselves in fact in the same business. In a scene near the end the mother asks if its raining outside when she can clearly see so through the window. Product placement – Oxo stock cubes.