aka The Tough Guy. The Slasher.Post war South London and the little old ladies of Battersea are the prey of Roy Walsh (James Kenney) and his gang of teenage thugs. We meet Walshy as he's caught after coshing an old lady and put on probation. Loose and out of control, with no parental restrictions his bad attitude and criminal activity only escalates. Especially after he learns his all to lenient widowed mother is going out with someone. It can only end in trouble for all concerned.
Joan Collins has an early starring role as a led astray teenager who gets pregnant, in this post war example of morale panic. Where children with no father figures are left to run amok in the ruins of bombed out London. The newly identified problem of juvenile delinquency is examined in this simplistic and moral story of damnation and the slippery slope of crime. Basically it breaks down to 'spare the rod and ruin the child'. An interesting look at the attitudes and ideas of the time.
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