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Wide Boy is a 1952 British crime film directed by Ken Hughes and starring Susan Shaw, Sydney Tafler and Ronald Howard. It was Hughes' feature directorial debut. He later called it "pretty terrible".
- April 1952
Wide Boy: Directed by Ken Hughes. With Sydney Tafler, Susan Shaw, Melissa Stribling, Colin Tapley. Benny steals Caroline's purse and finds a letter revealing her affair with married surgeon Mannering. Benny blackmails them, leading to murder.
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- Crime, Drama
- Ken Hughes
- 1952-12
4 mag 2024 · Benny makes a precarious living selling black market nylons, but soon finds himself involved in blackmail. Show full synopsis. Wide Boy is a late edition to the post-war 'spiv' cycle, which had articulated a mood of cynicism and disillusion that counter pointed Labour's New Jerusalem.
- Ken Hughes
- Merton Park
- Nat Cohen
- William Fairchild
Ken Hughes’s British crime drama in which a petty criminal picks a pocket which leads him to start a blackmail campaign with murderous results. Starring Sydney Tafler, Susan Shaw and Melissa Stribling. Selecting a pocket, results in extortion and homicide for a minor thief (Sydney Tafler) in London, in the directorial debut of Ken Hughes.
- Ken Hughes
- Merton Park Studios, Anglo-Amalgamated
Harold Watson. Geoffrey Muller. Sydney Tafler, Susan Shaw, Melissa Stribling, Colin Tapley, Ronald Howard, Glyn Houston, Martin Benson, Ian Wallace, Gerald Case. The British term “wide boy” denotes a young man who lives by his wits, something like a con man, the term referring to his being wide awake.
Ronald Howard Cast. Melissa Stribling Cast. Rex Rienits Screenplay. Josef Ambor Cinematography. Eric Spear Music. Critics reviews. Benny steals a purse and discovers a compromising letter in it from a wealthy, married surgeon. Benny starts a blackmail campaign that leads to murder.
Wide Boy. Summaries. The title, in British police parlance of the day, defines a petty crook whose criminal activities are minor and legal-borderline, but the title character in this film appears to stretch the definition.
