"Hue and Cry" UK Film. Attempted tickle torture.

[ira_gaines]

Boy tries to interrogate tied up woman (unsuccessfully)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7l7CbD315A

 

[maniactickler]

Seen it before. nothing worse than a non ticklish woman dammit!

 

[TeeHeeLawrence]

HUE AND CRY is one of a wonderful post-WW2 series of clever, funny, and beautifully made dark comedies from Ealing Studios, a small British film studio whose reputation--then and now--far exceeds the size of any one of its films and of its overall output. Movies like this one and the better known WHISKEY GALORE, LAVENDER HILL MOB, KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS, and THE LADYKILLERS were possible before television and the relentless waves of American movies battered the art cinema which flourished in Europe for decades after the war.

<p>More relevant to the Forum, this cunning scene has got to be one of the cruelest mainstream scenes for any ticklephile. It builds our expectations, then upends them when the moll proves not just NOT ticklish, but arrogantly so. The kicker of the scene, tho--and this is typically clever of these Ealing films, is that this hard-boiled egg proves laughably vulnerable to something no less silly than tickling. Nonetheless, it certainly is a cold bucket of water upon those of us who imagine tickling interrogation should be easy as pie.

<p>Be that as it may, don't hold it against HUE AND CRY, which is a really engaging film, with a marvelous cast including Alastair Sim, terrific location shots in Blitz-ravaged London, and a truly twisty plot.

 

[dashboard]

Seen it before. nothing worse than a non ticklish woman dammit!

Agreed. Such a disappointing scene.

 

[shaolindog]

But Dude I bet this scene is a classic for the guys in to chicks scared of small rodents fetish.

 

[bftk2005]

That actress is beautiful, too bad she wasn't ticklish.

 

[Colin]

I always thought this scene could have worked so beautifully if it started as filmed, with the older boy trying to scare her, snarling and waving a knife in her face, only to have the moll break into shrieking laughter, as though she's laughing derisively at him. But at that point the camera would pull back and we would see her feet being tickled.

Just sayin'.

C

 

[esquirol7]

I think she was ticklish. Look at the 'tickling' motion: just scrubbing only on one point of the sole of one feet, not devishly tickling both soles with ten fingers, up and down, vigorously... You know. I'm really ticklish, but whether I will be acting in a film, this 'tickling' will be really easy to disimulate...