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A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.
Cast
Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Valerie White, Jack Lambert, Harry Fowler, Douglas Barr, Stanley Escane, Ian Dawson, Gerald Fox, David Simpson, Albert Hughes, John Hudson
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