The Yellow Balloon is a 1953

1953 in film

The year 1953 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*September 16 — The Robe debuts as the first anamorphic, widescreen CinemaScope film.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:A...

 British drama film starring Kenneth More

Kenneth More

Kenneth Gilbert More CBE was a highly successful English film actor during the post-World War II era and starred in many feature films, often in the role of an archetypal carefree and happy-go-lucky middle-class gentleman.-Early life:Kenneth More was born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the...

, Bernard Lee

Bernard Lee

John Bernard Lee was an English actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven James Bond films.-Life and career:...

, Andrew Ray

Andrew Ray

Andrew Ray was an English actor who was best known as a child star.He was born Andrew Olden , in North London, the son of the famous radio comic Ted Ray and his wife, showgirl Dorothy...

, Kathleen Ryan

Kathleen Ryan

Kathleen Ryan was an Irish actress.She was born in Dublin, Ireland of Tipperary parentage and was a spirited and heart warming Irish actress who appeared in British and Hollywood movies between 1947 and 1957.-Family:...

 and Sid James

Sid James

Sid James was an English-based South African actor and comedian. He made his name as Tony Hancock's co-star in Hancock's Half Hour and also starred in the popular Carry On films. He was known for his trademark "dirty laugh" and lascivious persona...

.

Plot

Playing around the ruins of a devastated bombed-out neighbourhood of London, 12 year old Frankie accidentally leads a boy into his death when he falls from a second storey building. Shocked Frankie feels guilty and to his misfortune Len, a petty thief, witnessed the scene, so he immediately blackmails the poor boy into stealing money from his parents to finance Len's escape, since the man is responsible for killing a pub owner.
When Len realises the boy knows too much about his life to connect him with the murder, Len decides to get rid of the young boy in a tense chase through an abandoned Underground

London Underground

The London Underground is a rapid transit system serving a large part of Greater London and some parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex in England...

 station. The boy will struggle to survive and not be in the shoes his friend was.

Cast

• Andrew Ray
  Andrew Ray
  Andrew Ray was an English actor who was best known as a child star.He was born Andrew Olden , in North London, the son of the famous radio comic Ted Ray and his wife, showgirl Dorothy...
  
   as Frankie Palmer
• Kathleen Ryan
  Kathleen Ryan
  Kathleen Ryan was an Irish actress.She was born in Dublin, Ireland of Tipperary parentage and was a spirited and heart warming Irish actress who appeared in British and Hollywood movies between 1947 and 1957.-Family:...
  
   as Emily Palmer
• Kenneth More
  Kenneth More
  Kenneth Gilbert More CBE was a highly successful English film actor during the post-World War II era and starred in many feature films, often in the role of an archetypal carefree and happy-go-lucky middle-class gentleman.-Early life:Kenneth More was born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the...
  
   as Ted Palmer
• Bernard Lee
  Bernard Lee
  John Bernard Lee was an English actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven James Bond films.-Life and career:...
  
   as PC Chapman
• Stephen Fenemore as Ron Williams
• William Sylvester
  William Sylvester
  William Sylvester was an American television and film actor. His most famous film credit was Dr. Heywood Floyd in Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey...
  
   as Len
• Marjorie Rhodes
  Marjorie Rhodes
  Marjorie Rhodes was a British actress.One of her best-known roles was as Lucy Fitton, the mother of Bill Naughton's northern comedy All in Good Time. She played the role on Broadway, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award in 1965...
  
   as Jessie Stokes
• Peter Jones
  Peter Jones (actor)
  Peter Jones was an English actor, screenwriter and broadcaster.-Early life and career:Jones was born in Wem, Shropshire and he was educated at the Wem Grammar School and Ellesmere College. He made his first appearance as an actor in Wolverhampton at the age of 16 and then appeared in repertory...
  
   as Sid
• Eliot Makeham
  Eliot Makeham
  Eliot Makeham , sometimes credited as Eliott Makeham or Elliot Makeham, was an English film and television actor.-Early life and education:He was born Harold Elliott Makeham in 1882, in London, England....
  
   as Pawnbroker
• Sid James
  Sid James
  Sid James was an English-based South African actor and comedian. He made his name as Tony Hancock's co-star in Hancock's Half Hour and also starred in the popular Carry On films. He was known for his trademark "dirty laugh" and lascivious persona...
  
   as Barrow Boy
• Veronica Hurst
  Veronica Hurst
  Veronica Hurst is an English motion picture, stageand television actress who was born in Malta. She was raised in Tooting, South London, England...
  
   as Sunday School Teacher
• Sandra Dorne
  Sandra Dorne
  Sandra Dorne in Keighley, Yorkshire, was a British actress.Also known as Sandra Holt, she was often known in the fifties as the B Movie Diana Dors...
  
   as Iris
• Campbell Singer
  Campbell Singer
  Campbell Singer was a British character actor who featured in a number of film and television roles during his long career....
  
   as Potter
• Laurie Main
  Laurie Main
  Laurence "Laurie" Main is an English former actor. Although Main appeared in many films and television series since the 1950s, he is perhaps best known for hosting and narrating the children's series Welcome to Pooh Corner, which aired on The Disney Channel during the 1980s.His television guest...
  
   as Bibulous Customer
• Hy Hazell
  Hy Hazell
  Hy Hazell was a British film actress. She was born as Hyacinth Hazel O'Higgins.-Selected filmography:* Meet Me at Dawn * Paper Orchid * The Lady Craved Excitement...
  
  as Mary