Cosh Boy

IMDb link: 0044515
IMDb rating: 6.1 (573 votes)
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: Joan Collins, Betty Ann Davies, Robert Ayres, James Kenney and others

Release date: 29 May 1953
Release year: 1953
Runtime: 75 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Keywords: wrestling match, teenage boy, british noir, delinquent, gang, slow witted, working class, mother son relationship, climbing up a wall, suicide attempt

Plot:

Amongst the bomb-sites and dark alleys of postwar London, Roy Walsh (James Kenney) and his gang of juvenile delinquents waylay and rob old ladies. Without parental control from his war-widowed doting mother, Walsh, already on probation, drifts into more and more devious and serious offences.

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