For years I laboured under the misapprehension that this was a piece of blatant propaganda produced by the Ministry of Information to encourage Britain to get back on its feet in the immediate post-WW2 years (the sort of product the government should be churning out post-Lockdown, in fact). Now that I've caught up with it at last it turns out to be a fairly bland, hopelessly naïve entry about a girl (as opposed to a boy) and a dog, shady characters, and the twilight world of greyhound racing.
Wilfred Lawson was a great actor who starred in many thirties and forties films.However he had one by drawback,he was an alcoholic.
The title is very misleading as it suggests a domestic subject, when it's actually about greyhound racing.Attractively shot largely on location, and padded out with a rather raw portrayal of the spiv economy in the form of Peter Bull & Desmond Tester (who eleven years earlier had both been in Hitchcock's 'Sabotage') as a shady pair attempting to muscle in on father & daughter Turners' action.
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