A Cry from the Streets

A Cry from the Streets (1958)

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.

Date of release
1958-08-12
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 39m
Genres
Drama
Director
Lewis Gilbert

Casting

Interesting facts

A Cry from the Streets is a 1958 British drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Max Bygraves and Barbara Murray. It was written by Vernon Harris based on the 1957 novel The Friend in Need by Elizabeth Coxhead.

Production

Lewis Gilbert said he went to Eros asking to make a film with Max Bygraves for £60,000. They agreed if it could be made for £50,000, without reading the script, because they knew they would be able to see a Bygraves film profitably at that price.

The movie was originally called A Friend in Need and was made for Gilbert's own company.

The movie features two Australian child stars, Colin Petersen from Smiley and The Scamp and Dana Wilson from The Shiralee.

Bygraves wrote in his memoirs that Lewis Gilbert was the most sensitive director he worked with adding "I honestly believe that could I have had his direction for a few more movies, I could have been a good screen actor. He was the only director that would come up to me before a take and say things like: “In this next scene you are bloody well annoyed—you feel like telling the matron to get stuffed—but with the kids looking on you daren’t, so you…

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