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Cosh Boy

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

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaThe 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.

  • Regia
    • Lewis Gilbert
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Bruce Walker
    • Lewis Gilbert
    • Vernon Harris
  • Star
    • James Kenney
    • Joan Collins
    • Betty Ann Davies
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,1/10
    548
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Lewis Gilbert
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Bruce Walker
      • Lewis Gilbert
      • Vernon Harris
    • Star
      • James Kenney
      • Joan Collins
      • Betty Ann Davies
    • 26Recensioni degli utenti
    • 16Recensioni della critica
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    Interpreti principali29

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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 citato nei titoli originali)
    Marian Chapman
    • Young Girl
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    • Regia
      • Lewis Gilbert
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Bruce Walker
      • Lewis Gilbert
      • Vernon Harris
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    Recensioni degli utenti26

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    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.
    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.
    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.
    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!
    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.

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      Roy Bentley, at the time Captain of Chelsea Football Club, and an England international, has a small, uncredited role as an instructor.
    • Blooper
      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.
    • Citazioni

      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...

    • Curiosità sui crediti
      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.
    • Connessioni
      Featured in Mike Baldwin & Me (2001)
    • Colonne sonore
      Valse Elegante
      (uncredited)

      Music by Frank Cordell

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    Dettagli

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    • Data di uscita
      • febbraio 1953 (Regno Unito)
    • Paese di origine
      • Regno Unito
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
    • Celebre anche come
      • The Slasher
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, Londra, Inghilterra, Regno Unito(studio: Riverside Studios Hammersmith)
    • Aziende produttrici
      • Romulus Films
      • Angel Productions
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    • Tempo di esecuzione
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    • Colore
      • Black and White
    • Proporzioni
      • 1.37 : 1

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