The Custard Boys
Release Date: 1979-11-24
Overview: An Indian summer, 1942: "When I was thirteen, all I wanted to be was a hero." A young evacuee's response to the surrounding war-obsessed adult world seems the only one available to him, until he forms 'a particular friendship' with another boy, a Jewish refugee. This threatens the stability of his gang (who also mirror the racist/jingoist attitudes of adulthood), and he is caught in Forster's great liberal crux: your country or your friend?
Rating: 8 / 10
Cast
Chris Chescoe
as Young John Curlew
Eric Milliet
as Mark Stein
Ben Clennell
as Lewis Craig
Andrew Atkinson
as Andrew Craig
Matthew Cormack
as Willie Aldrich
Crew
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Kiran Garcha - Screenplay
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Andrew Fleury - Production Artist
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Richard Brierley - Thanks
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Julia Palmer - Thanks
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David Weeks - Production Artist
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