Film Details

This rediscovered and newly restored British gem is a kitchen sink drama with a punk rock spirit. Shot in b&w, and in English with English subtitles, the movie focuses on Del, a 17-year-old delinquent living in London’s East End. Del and his friend Bronco Bullfrog, a reform school alum, commit petty robberies until Del meets and falls for Irene. He decides to run off with her. “An auspicious first feature…A British equivalent of Italian neo-realism: a cast of nonactors recruited from the streets of London’s depressed East End enact a story that might have been their own.” –J. Hoberman, NY Times. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 86 min.