The Yellow Balloon
German title: Der gelbe Ballon
Francaise title: Le ballon jaune
Spain title: Amenaza Siniestra
Greek title: Απόψε θα πεθάνης
Russian title: Жёлтый шар
Original title: The Yellow Balloon
Francaise title: Le ballon jaune
Spain title: Amenaza Siniestra
Greek title: Απόψε θα πεθάνης
Russian title: Жёлтый шар
Original title: The Yellow Balloon
Alternative titles:
Encuentro con la Muerte / Apopse tha pethanis
Encuentro con la Muerte / Apopse tha pethanis
Crime movie – United Kingdom
Production year: 1952
Movie length: 76 minutes
Production year: 1952
Movie length: 76 minutes
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Writer: Anne Burnaby, J. Lee Thompson
Cinematograph: Gilbert Taylor
Music: Philip Green
Writer: Anne Burnaby, J. Lee Thompson
Cinematograph: Gilbert Taylor
Music: Philip Green
Movie description:
One of two young boys accidentally falls to his death when playing in a bombed-out London neighborhood. Frankie, the survivor feels guilty about his friend’s death. Len, a petty thief who has just killed a pub owner during a botched robbery, learns of the accident. He poses as Frankie’s friend and blackmails the boy into stealing from his parents to finance Len’s escape. When Len decides that Frankie may know enough to connect him with the murder, he decides to silence the boy in a tense »hide and seek« chase through the ruins.
The scene: a bombed – out building in London’s East End. Two young boys, 12 year olds Frankie Palmer and Ronnie Williams are running about in the ruins when Ronnie slips and falls thirty feet to his death. Frankie scrambles down to help, but realizes that there is nothing he can do. Hiding in the shadows and seeing it all, Len Turner, a criminal on the run and using the ruins as a hide out from the police, convinces Frankie that the police will arrest the boy and charge him with the murder of his friend for pushing him to his death and that they must both make their getaway. Although Frankie and Len agree it was an accident, Len is adamant that the police will not see it that way and Frankie goes off with him. Len blackmails Frankie into stealing money from his parents to help fund Len’s escape and then uses the boy as a decoy in a pub robbery that goes horribly wrong when Len murders the publican. Realizing that Frankie is the only witness to his crime, Len knows he must kill the boy, too. This develops into a terrifying hide and seek chase through a bomb-damaged; abandoned and highly perilous London Underground station with Len hot on the heels of Frankie, who is desperately trying to escape with his life ...!
The scene: a bombed – out building in London’s East End. Two young boys, 12 year olds Frankie Palmer and Ronnie Williams are running about in the ruins when Ronnie slips and falls thirty feet to his death. Frankie scrambles down to help, but realizes that there is nothing he can do. Hiding in the shadows and seeing it all, Len Turner, a criminal on the run and using the ruins as a hide out from the police, convinces Frankie that the police will arrest the boy and charge him with the murder of his friend for pushing him to his death and that they must both make their getaway. Although Frankie and Len agree it was an accident, Len is adamant that the police will not see it that way and Frankie goes off with him. Len blackmails Frankie into stealing money from his parents to help fund Len’s escape and then uses the boy as a decoy in a pub robbery that goes horribly wrong when Len murders the publican. Realizing that Frankie is the only witness to his crime, Len knows he must kill the boy, too. This develops into a terrifying hide and seek chase through a bomb-damaged; abandoned and highly perilous London Underground station with Len hot on the heels of Frankie, who is desperately trying to escape with his life ...!
Boy Actors
Andrew Ray
(Frankie Palmer, 12 years old)
(Frankie Palmer, 12 years old)
Birthday: 31.05.1939
Day of death: 20.08.2003
Age of the actor:
approximately 13 years old
Day of death: 20.08.2003
Age of the actor:
approximately 13 years old
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