Hue And Cry

A plucky young Harry Fowler leads a gang of East End youths who are outraged to discover that black market smugglers are communicating through the pages of their favourite comic. Alastair Sim is a delight as the comic's artist Felix H Wilkinson, but with its abductions and menacing phony cop, there's real suspense, too. It's set solidly amid the ruins of blitzed London and in that long-gone age, a horde of kids swarm over the rubble to apprehend the crooks. Scripted by TEB Clarke, of Passport to Pimlico fame, it's a real treat, even by Ealing standards.