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Cosh Boy

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

Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaThe 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.

  • Direção
    • Lewis Gilbert
  • Roteiristas
    • Bruce Walker
    • Lewis Gilbert
    • Vernon Harris
  • Artistas
    • James Kenney
    • Joan Collins
    • Betty Ann Davies
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
  • AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
    6,1/10
    548
    SUA AVALIAÇÃO
    • Direção
      • Lewis Gilbert
    • Roteiristas
      • Bruce Walker
      • Lewis Gilbert
      • Vernon Harris
    • Artistas
      • James Kenney
      • Joan Collins
      • Betty Ann Davies
    • 26Avaliações de usuários
    • 16Avaliações da crítica
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
  • Veja as informações de produção no 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
    • (não creditado)
    Marian Chapman
    • Young Girl
    • (não creditado)
    • Direção
      • Lewis Gilbert
    • Roteiristas
      • Bruce Walker
      • Lewis Gilbert
      • Vernon Harris
    • Elenco e equipe completos
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    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.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    8angryangus

    Well worth a look.

    After reading some of the extremely negative reviews I feel I have to add my tuppence worth. I watched this film recently and I can't believe some of the reviewers watched the same movie. Bad acting? I couldn't see any. All the actors were stage-trained and while I could see some of that reflected in several of the performances it didn't detract from, but rather added to, the underlying documentary approach to a subject that was much in the public and political mind at that time (and still is today).

    James Kenney, who I've seen in several movies, gives an outstanding performance of this young undisciplined hoodlum whose hysterical vileness and strutting arrogance propped up with a false bravado that finally cracks like a mirror at the end of the film....well, crime couldn't be shown to pay, could it? And yes, the police of that time were quite willing to let parents or guardians punish their young 'uns if they thought it would do any good. Parents would insist to the policeman, "Leave him to me!" if he brought shame on the house...I know! Alternatively the policemen themselves would give you a clip on the back of the head with their hand (painful) or flick you with a rolled up cape on the bum (very painful). You wouldn't go running to your Dad crying about it for he'd give you another clip saying you must have deserved it.

    Social history tells us of how Britain, with four million men in uniform during the war years saw a generation of youth largely grow up without the guidance of fathers or older brothers. Juvenile delinquency figures during and after the war went through the roof and with many de-mobbed soldiers bringing looted pistols and revolvers home with them there was a steady supply of weapons filtering down to the criminally-inclined classes, and resulting in a massive increase in crimes of robbery, assault and murder by those who were 'tooled-up' and who were quite willing to kill their victims rather than let them live to identify their attacker and possibly end up making the acquaintance of Mr Pierrepoint and his neck-adjusting service (which he performed...on a career-best 405 occasions!).

    For the time, and of the time, Lewis Gilbert's film stands up well in my eyes compared to the rose-tinted comedic films depicting similar disenfranchised youth such as the funny 'Hue and Cry'…which I also enjoyed enormously.

    Taking a film out of its time-period to deliver judgement can't be right.

    There were many films made back then (and even now) that are shoddily made with poor acting, dire scripts and non-existent production values that deserve all the brickbats they get, but 'Cosh Boy' isn't one of them....in my humble opinion.

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    • Curiosidades
      Roy Bentley, at the time Captain of Chelsea Football Club, and an England international, has a small, uncredited role as an instructor.
    • Erros de gravação
      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.
    • Citações

      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...

    • Cenas durante ou pós-créditos
      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.
    • Conexões
      Featured in Mike Baldwin & Me (2001)
    • Trilhas sonoras
      Valse Elegante
      (uncredited)

      Music by Frank Cordell

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    • Data de lançamento
      • fevereiro de 1953 (Reino Unido)
    • País de origem
      • Reino Unido
    • Idioma
      • Inglês
    • Também conhecido como
      • The Slasher
    • Locações de filme
      • Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, Londres, Inglaterra, Reino Unido(studio: Riverside Studios Hammersmith)
    • Empresas de produção
      • Romulus Films
      • Angel Productions
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    • Tempo de duração
      1 hora 15 minutos
    • Cor
      • Black and White
    • Proporção
      • 1.37 : 1

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