Fri Oct 23 · 9pm
The Yellow Balloon (1953)
The Yellow Balloon (1953), J. Lee Thompson's second film as director, is set among the bomb sites of postwar London, where a boy, played by Andrew Ray, accidentally causes his friend's death and is then blackmailed by a criminal into helping with a robbery. Kenneth More and Kathleen Ryan co-star. It shows on a 35mm print in the season Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945–1960.