The film the song samples is "We are the Lambeth Boys"a 1950s documentary about the young men (and women) who hang out at a certain youth club in london (it is not about the last men to be hung in the UK). The film is a deliberately sympathetic account of a certain demographic who were often looked on, and feared, as delinquents in their time. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=232669605535093695
Morrissey, however, has chosen the parts of the dialogue which represent that side of their personality which the film is trying to soften - i.e. the aggressive gang culture. He also emphasises the repressed homoerotic aspects of their relationships.
The film the song samples is "We are the Lambeth Boys"a 1950s documentary about the young men (and women) who hang out at a certain youth club in london (it is not about the last men to be hung in the UK). The film is a deliberately sympathetic account of a certain demographic who were often looked on, and feared, as delinquents in their time.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=232669605535093695 Morrissey, however, has chosen the parts of the dialogue which represent that side of their personality which the film is trying to soften - i.e. the aggressive gang culture. He also emphasises the repressed homoerotic aspects of their relationships.