Courtesy again from UK's Talking Pictures channel.
Some of the cast reappeared in the later "The Salvage Gang" (1958).
Empty streets, bomb site dens, kids using their initiative, friendly (but incompetent) coppers, absent parents (replaced by a professor), a nasty crooked gang of adults (with a slight suggestion of Cold War skulduggery)....it's all here.
Interesting to see how Bonfire Night was the event then, not Halloween. I well remember how we all could buy fireworks with minimal effort and supervision; one of our favourites was the Banger, and some of us had "banger guns"-a piece of curved pipe with a "touch hole"-the banger was inserted fuse first, lit via the touch hole, then pointed at a mate! We all survived.
Interesting, too, to see the Asian kid-Ali-here as well as in the later film; "inclusion" and "diversity" featured a fair bit in these CFF productions but it was natural-not forced and embarrassing like the increasingly laughable BBC and others come across when they get on the latest fashionable bandwagon.
A good quality production in all areas with many recognisable actors that will have us reaching for our film directories or the search engine...