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Cosh Boy

  • 1953
  • Approved
  • 1h 15min
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6,1/10
548
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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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    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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    6blanche-2

    British juvenile delinquency

    This was known in England as "Cosh Boy."

    A cosh is a blackjack or bludgeon and cosh means mugging someone.

    Nice performance by James Kenney as a juvenile delinquent who runs a gang that beats up little old ladies and steals their money. Kenney played the lead on the London stage and does an excellent job.

    He becomes involved with one of the gang members' sister (Joan Collins) with disastrous results.

    Both of the Hermoines are in this film. Gingold looked like a drag queen.

    Post-war juvenile delinquency was going on everywhere, including Britain.

    Amazing to see 20-year-old Joan Collins, who as of this writing is still with us 70 years later. The film is worth it just for that.
    8Weirdling_Wolf

    'Lewis Gilbert's abrasive, hard-hitting 'Cosh Boy' has lost little of its impact!'

    'Cosh Boy' (1953) - Lewis Gilbert.

    Highly regarded writer/director Lewis Gilbert's gloomy, surprisingly gritty expose of violent opportunist street crime is certainly no less hard-hitting an experience today than upon its initial somewhat more controversial theatrical release in 1953. Due to Gilbert's tough-edged feature's rather blunt, relatively unfiltered examination of criminality it was granted an 'X' certificate, its abrasive depictions of anti-social teenage delinquency, petty larceny, violent street crime, and the increasingly criminal machinations of the gang's milk-faced, gimlet-eyed, plainly sociopathic gang leader Roy Walsh (John Kenney) and his greasily subservient entourage of shiftless, pallid-looking hoodlums were, perhaps, a little too vividly rendered for the time!

    The existentially bleak 50s melodrama 'Cosh Boy' is a consistently fascinating thriller, being a remarkably grim, wholly unsympathetic view of teenage terror-twerp 'Walshie's' extraordinarily callous crime spree, his ill temper and frequent immorality seemingly boundless, robbing his own family, dispassionately getting his innocent girl (Joan Collins) in the family way, and fatefully shifting from a leather-bound cosh to a deadly firearm in the film's frantic, razor-edged, nerve-strafing climax! There are especially frank moments in the punchy narrative when it is almost as though Gilbert is foreshadowing the socially conscious, agitprop cinema of Alan Clarke and Ken Loach, since his intense young protagonist Kenney roils with the similarly splenetic rage of a young Gary Oldman! 'Cosh Boy' is far more than a nostalgic cinematic curiosity, aggressively maintaining a dark febrile energy undiminished by time with the breathtakingly beautiful Joan Collins expressing a heart-wrenching fragility as the naïve Rene Collins.
    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.
    7FilmFlaneur

    Hits you over the head and you'll like it

    Don't miss this, now available as THE SLASHER as part of a Kit Parker Films DVD double bill under the moniker British Film Noir (along with TWILIGHT WOMEN). Strictly speaking I would class neither of these two productions as 'film noir' - more social problem and crime films. THE SLASHER is actually the American renaming of good old COSH BOY, a title which has occasionally surfaced on UK's C4. It's the main reason why I, and I suspect others, will want this disc - a minor cult item featuring a memorable central turn for James Kenney - who also appears, to less effect in another recent release (from the UK this time) GELIGNITE GANG. Kenney plays Roy, the anti-social, selfish, cunning and manipulative thug, about whose short career as a petty criminal the film is about. Highlight of the film is the corporal punishment meted out to Roy by his new stepfather in the final scenes - something strikingly and splendidly un-PC: much more more intense and yes, satisfying in effect than any amount of more establishment-accommodating endings familiar from other films of this ilk. I'm no supporter of the belt, but by God you will be crying out for Roy, who has betrayed his girlfriend (a very young Joan Collins) his mother, his grandmother and almost everyone else, to get the taste of it by time of the end! THE SLASHER may have its weaknesses, including an obvious black-and-white view of behaviour, but with such a powerful ending, together with Kenney's memorable performance it is a must-see. Those who criticise some of the acting (viz: one of Roy's stooges, a particularly whining individual) miss the point - this is British exploitation at its best. The DVD quality is excellent btw except for one or soundtrack drop outs with the present release.
    6planktonrules

    It's ALL the coddling mothers' fault....spare the rod, spoil the Empire I say!

    "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. They are placed on probation and Roy acts very contrite and decent in court...and almost immediately after, he's planning his next crimes! His idea is to use the Youth Club his probation officer wants him to attend. He and his gang will go there...and use it as a cover for their criminal activities. In the process, Roy discovers a pretty young lady (Joan Collins)...who he treats like dirt.

    Through the course of the film, Roy continually ups the ante--with his criminal behaviors getting worse and worse. He clearly is without a redeeming quality...though his co-dependent mother makes excuses for him. The only one who sees right through the punk is his mother's boyfriend...he knows that Roy needs a very firm hand. But here is where it gets rather Freudian...as Roy throws a weird temper tantrum and swears no one will have his mother as she is HIS! What's next? See this weird little film.

    James Kenney is quite good as Roy--snarling, nasty and incredibly two- faced..as well as hopelessly in love with his mother..though he and his mum don't seem to realize it. My biggest complaint, however, is that the film tries to say that who Roy is turns out to be because he has a super-permissive mother. In fact, the preachy prologue says exactly that! Oversimplified to say the least! Overall, it's not a great film at all...but it IS entertaining and worth seeing!

    By the way, although the film seems very tame by modern standards, it received the brand new X-rating--which was very unusual for the 1950s. Perhaps this was because the film talks about teenage pregnancy and is a tad violent...all of which would lead to a PG or PG-13 rating today.

    "Get up you little rat...you're making me sick!!!"--best line in the film.

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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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    • 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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