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Cosh Boy

  • 1953
  • Approved
  • 1h 15min
NOTE IMDb
6,1/10
548
MA NOTE
Joan Collins, James Kenney, and Ian Whittaker in Cosh Boy (1953)
Film NoirCrimeDrama

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueThe life of a juvenile delinquent is threatened by his own incessant desire for trouble.The life of a juvenile delinquent is threatened by his own incessant desire for trouble.The life of a juvenile delinquent is threatened by his own incessant desire for trouble.

  • Réalisation
    • Lewis Gilbert
  • Scénario
    • Bruce Walker
    • Lewis Gilbert
    • Vernon Harris
  • Casting principal
    • James Kenney
    • Joan Collins
    • Betty Ann Davies
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  • NOTE IMDb
    6,1/10
    548
    MA NOTE
    • Réalisation
      • Lewis Gilbert
    • Scénario
      • Bruce Walker
      • Lewis Gilbert
      • Vernon Harris
    • Casting principal
      • James Kenney
      • Joan Collins
      • Betty Ann Davies
    • 26avis d'utilisateurs
    • 16avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
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    Rôles principaux29

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    James Kenney
    James Kenney
    • Roy
    Joan Collins
    Joan Collins
    • Rene
    Betty Ann Davies
    Betty Ann Davies
    • Elsie
    Robert Ayres
    Robert Ayres
    • Bob
    Hermione Baddeley
    Hermione Baddeley
    • Mrs. Collins
    Hermione Gingold
    Hermione Gingold
    • Queenie
    Nancy Roberts
    Nancy Roberts
    • Gran Walsh
    Laurence Naismith
    Laurence Naismith
    • Donaldson
    Ian Whittaker
    • Alfie
    Stanley Escane
    • Pete
    Michael McKeag
    • Brian
    Sean Lynch
    Sean Lynch
    • Darkey
    Johnny Briggs
    Johnny Briggs
    • Skinny
    • (as John Briggs)
    Edward Evans
    Edward Evans
    • Woods
    Cameron Hall
    • Mr. Beverley
    Sidney James
    Sidney James
    • Police Sergeant
    Roy Bentley
    • Football Coach
    • (non crédité)
    Marian Chapman
    • Young Girl
    • (non crédité)
    • Réalisation
      • Lewis Gilbert
    • Scénario
      • Bruce Walker
      • Lewis Gilbert
      • Vernon Harris
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    6TheFearmakers

    Brighton Pebble

    It's a shame that COSH BOY (strangely re-titled THE SLASHER) is so extremely dated, holding back what's promised by the edgy image of British teen actor James Kenney as a street thug "teddy boy" (name of youth gangs in England)... because Kenney not only delivers his dialogue strongly, but listens just as intensely...

    Too bad most of his words are aimed at his dotting mother, about to marry a man who can't wait to punish her oldest son... and she's more important than the fellow gang members, who sporadically hit the streets to "cosh" (violently mug) their victims...

    On the peripheral is a romance with Joan Collins, injecting the kind of wispy hysterics to suit what's ultimately more a melodrama with crime genre elements than the sleek crime-noir it could/should have been instead...

    Yet despite the flaws, director Lewis Gilbert, during the few scenes that matter involving the young gang working together before turning on each other, brings the viewer straight into the action... that is, when the distractions haven't taken over, in this case, almost entirely.
    7bkoganbing

    Coshing the Cosh Boy

    Although the play Cosh Boy never made it to Broadway, probably too British in its subject matter, the original actor who played the lead on the London stage got to recreate his role for the screen. In the tradition of Richard Attenborough in Brighton Rock, James Kenney is mesmerizing and unforgettable as the dirty little punk who with his gang robs little old ladies of their monies.

    If anything Kenney is far more loathsome than Attenborough, not even a hint of surface charm. In fact the hardest part of the film to take seriously is having young Joan Collins surrender herself and her virginity to this creep. Still his love 'em and leave 'em attitude is just one more reason to hate this kid. I've seen very few leading villains so lacking in any redeeming qualities. Possibly Lee Marvin in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is one.

    For those of us Yanks for who the film was retitled The Slasher for release by Lippert Pictures here, a Cosh is a kind of truncheon used to whack someone into unconsciousness or beat them severely. That's what he and his gang use. He's the bane of the existence of his poor mother Betty Ann Davies who agonizes over what she did wrong in raising him. She has a new man in her life, American Robert Ayres playing a Canadian, who thinks the kid just needed a good attitude adjustment that was never given him by a father who is not in the picture. In the end Kenney has to account for all his many sins.

    Besides a very young Joan Collins viewers should take note of the two Hermiones in the film, Hermione Baddely as the mother of Collins who wants to Cosh the Cosh Boy after she finds out what Kenney has done and Hermione Gingold playing a not disguised at all prostitute who is a friend of the Davies/Kenney family. It's a poor section of London these folks live in with evidence all around of the recent war. Kenney's gang hides out in the bombed out buildings still not repaired by 1953.

    Cosh Boy is still quite a riveting piece of film making and Kenney is unforgettably evil.
    5hildagrenshaw

    My Mum was in this (possibly)

    Interesting film. It was filmed in Leamore Street in Hammersmith. My Mum lived there. The film crew gave them ice creams and skipping ropes to play in the background of some scenes (though on a quick look through the film, I didn't see much of this). The beginning shows them running down a high street and I suspect this was the main street in Hammersmith.I have just bought it for my Mum's 70th birthday as she had never seen the film due to it being an X and of course, there were no DVD/Video recorders in those days!Feels a bit over acted in places, but an interesting historical document of life in the 1950s. Joan Collins is impressive though.
    7allankelb

    See below

    this film screened in the early am last night on abc1 in Australia. I note that some reviewers thought the acting was poor however I found that the actor who played the lead role was brilliant, I grew up on the wrong side of town so I am familiar with what these creatures are like, these types are universal regardless of time and place.That actor really nailed the archetype snivelling, gutless psychopath, I am surprised that this actor did not goonto bigger and better roles. I wonder if Peter Sellers saw this film as one of the thugs has a comical high pitched voice identical to one of Sellers many voices! And the young Joan Collins, what a beauty!
    7mikepetty

    Yes, but...

    Just seen this on TV. Watched the whole thing (not just the last 15 minutes), and agree with most of what's been said - the dodgy accents, the usual brace of Hermiones, Sid James doing his avuncular desk sergeant bit, etc etc. And as the stepfather Robert Ayres gives the best performance as a piece of wood I've seen since the log in Twin Peaks. Don't think I've ever seen a film before where the fuzz make themselves scarce for ten minutes so stepfather can give his stepson a bloody good thrashing! But...making allowances for the conventions of the time, you can tell it was made by someone who knew what he was doing, and several things kept me watching: the location shots of blitzed London; Joan Collins, who was rather affecting given the limitations of her role; and James Kenney as Roy the hoodlum was really good - overwrought, sure, but convincing nevertheless. I was reminded of Gary Oldman at his most psychotic.

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    Histoire

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    Le saviez-vous

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    • Anecdotes
      Roy Bentley, at the time Captain of Chelsea Football Club, and an England international, has a small, uncredited role as an instructor.
    • Gaffes
      In the draughts game, Walshy's opponent makes two moves before Walshy makes one. The position of the pieces at the end of the scene reflect a different game to the one they appear to have played, especially as they do not seem to have moved any pieces during their conversation other than the first three moves.
    • Citations

      Police Sergeant: How would you describe the men who attacked you?

      Queenie: As dirty lot of stinking rotten sons of...

      Police Sergeant: Alright, alright. What did they look like?

      Queenie: 'Ow the hell should I know? D'you suppose they came up and raised their bloomin' 'ats before they 'it me?

      Police Sergeant: [filling in a form] No description...

    • Crédits fous
      Opening credits prologue: By itself, the "Cosh" is the cowardly implement of a contemporary evil; in association with "Boy", it marks a post-war tragedy - the juvenile delinquent. "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. The problem exists - and we cannot escape it by closing our eyes. This film is presented in the hope that it will contribute towards stamping out this social evil.
    • Connexions
      Featured in Mike Baldwin & Me (2001)
    • Bandes originales
      Valse Elegante
      (uncredited)

      Music by Frank Cordell

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    Détails

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    • Date de sortie
      • février 1953 (Royaume-Uni)
    • Pays d’origine
      • Royaume-Uni
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • The Slasher
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, Londres, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni(studio: Riverside Studios Hammersmith)
    • Sociétés de production
      • Romulus Films
      • Angel Productions
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    • Durée
      1 heure 15 minutes
    • Couleur
      • Black and White
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.37 : 1

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