It is not so much about the crime story as the social culture that is documented in Bethnal Green in the mid 1960s.
This isn't swinging London, this is gritty down to earth poor London.
The living conditions, the workplace and the desire for something better drives this film into something more than just another B&W also ran compared with the likes of A Kind of Loving and Taste of Honey.
It is summed up with the mother's observations of her life as she walked with her son down the street at the end.
The washhouse is a particular eye opener. This was only 60 years ago.
This isn't swinging London, this is gritty down to earth poor London.
The living conditions, the workplace and the desire for something better drives this film into something more than just another B&W also ran compared with the likes of A Kind of Loving and Taste of Honey.
It is summed up with the mother's observations of her life as she walked with her son down the street at the end.
The washhouse is a particular eye opener. This was only 60 years ago.