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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.
"Cosh Boy" (also known as "The Slasher") is an incredibly Oedipal picture that takes advantage of post-war worries that the youth were running amok. It begins with Roy Walsh and a friend committing a mugging (a 'cosh') and soon getting caught.
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 ...
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 ...
REVIEW: "THE SLASHER" (AKA "COSH BOY") (1953) STARRING JAMES KENNY AND JOAN COLLINS; KINO LORBER BLU-RAY RELEASE. The British Film Institute (BFI) deserves praise for continuing to invest in restorations of worthy, but largely forgotten, British films from bygone eras. Case in point: the 1953 crime drama "Cosh Boy" (absurdly re-titled "The ...
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.
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...
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Overview. Roy Walsh is a brash and enterprising thug who bullies his friends into subservience. He and his gang assault and rob people on the street, but things get increasingly dangerous when their behavior escalates to larger crimes. Lewis Gilbert. Director, Writer. Vernon Harris.
Cosh Boy is a film directed by Lewis Gilbert with James Kenney, Joan Collins, Betty Ann Davies, Robert Ayres .... Year: 1953. Original title: Cosh Boy. Synopsis: Amongst the bomb-sites and dark alleys of postwar London Roy Walsh and his gang of juvenile delinquents waylay and rob old ladies.
The life of a juvenile delinquent is threatened by his own incessant desire for trouble.
