The Boys is an overlooked cult British film from the early '60s, directed by a pre-Ipcress File Sidney J Furie and starring Dudley Sutton, Ronald Lacey, Jess Conrad and Tony Garnett (before he moved behind the camera) as four young working-class lads from London's East End who find themselves in the dock accused of murder, following the vicious fatal stabbing of an elderly night watchman during a petrol station robbery. What follows is a neat and effective mix of courtroom drama and kitchen sink realism, with the trial scenes intercut with flashbacks showing the events of that fateful evening and those of the boys' less than salubrious home life