Strikingly shot in black and white, this carefully prepared documentary about the goings-on at a South London youth club gave director Karel Reisz his first major success. Although some of their dialogue is unintelligible, the 'Lambeth Boys' act with becoming bravado, and there is something approaching poetry in the treatmnent of their problems and potentialities, with John Dankworth's famous music echoing their independent stance. This is the kind of film to which the great British wartime documentaries should have led but all too rarely did.


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