The Custard Boys (movie)
- Production country: United Kingdom
- Producer: Colin Finbow
- Production companies: Children's Film Unit
- Genre: Drama, Family
- Release date: 11/24/1979
- Run time: 82 min.
Movie description
An Indian summer, 1942: "When I was thirteen, all I wanted to be was a hero." A young evacuee's response to the surrounding war-obsessed adult world seems the only one available to him, until he forms 'a particular friendship' with another boy, a Jewish refugee. This threatens the stability of his gang (who also mirror the racist/jingoist attitudes of adulthood), and he is caught in Forster's great liberal crux: your country or your friend?
