"Today you'd show it to 10 year olds", Lewis Gilbert commented in 2000.In England in the early 1950s, male youths in post-World War II delinquent gangs who had adopted Edwardian-era fashion were initially known as 'cosh boys', but later became better known as 'Teddy Boys' after a 23 September 1953 "Daily Express" newspaper headline shortened "Edwardian" to "Teddy".