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Cosh Boy (released in the United States as The Slasher) is a 1953 British film noir based on an original play by Bruce Walker. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert and featured James Kenney and Joan Collins. It was made at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith.
Jul 28, 2023 · A swift-moving, no-punches-pulled expose set in London's tenement district, with a ruthless teenager (James Kenney, reprising his stage role) blackjacking an old woman to get her purse, and ...
- 75 min
- 57.9K
- The Sprocket Vault
"Cosh Boy" portrays starkly the development of a young criminal, an enemy of society at sixteen. Our Judges and Magistrates, and the Police, whose stern duty it is to resolve the problem, agree that its origins lie mainly in the lack of parental control and early discipline.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Lewis Gilbert
- 1953-05-29
Jan 8, 2020 · He and his gang assault and rob people on the street, but things get increasingly dangerous when their behaviour escalates to murderous consequences. Unafraid to tackle a host of taboo subjects ...
- 2 min
- 6.3K
- BFI
Amongst the bomb-sites and dark alleys of postwar London Roy Walsh and his gang of juvenile delinquents waylay and rob old ladies. Without parental control from his war-widowed doting mother, Welsh, already on probation, drifts into more and more devious and serious offences.
- Lewis Gilbert
- Joan Collins
Cosh Boy. A juvenile delinquent (James Kenney) and his gang prowl the streets of post-World War II London. This adaptation of Bruce Walker's play Master Crook can...
- Drama
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The main reason to watch Lewis Gilbert’s Cosh Boy (US: The Slasher) is the scrumptious visual style captured by cinematographer Jack Asher and production designer Bernard Robinson, the shadowy “ruins” of postwar London at night serving as the constant backdrop for an unruly group of young punks, their frequent escaping through underground ...
