Joe Robinson

In this crime thriller, a forger’s almost-perfect plan of fleeing to Spain is disrupted when his daughter gets kidnapped by a gang.

In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanna (Celia Johnson), who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realize the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours.

A rebellious youth sentenced to a boy's reformatory for robbery rises through the ranks and is recognized by the governor for his skill as a runner.