[1] Lambeth Boys was one of the last films to be made by the Free Cinema movement, and offered a sympathetic portrait of the lives of young working-class people in South London.

The film focuses on the lives and feelings of the young people such as teddy boys and girls who attend Alford House Youth Club in Kennington, South London.

Lambeth Boys features life in the youth club, from dance nights to discussion groups, and life outside the youth club; work in postal sorting offices and factories, time spent with one another on the Kennington Lane estate or in a chip shop after a night out.

Lambeth Boys won the Grand Prix at the Tours Festival Of Short Film in December 1959.

[citation needed] The song "Spring-Heeled Jim" by English singer, songwriter and author Morrissey (released in 1994 on the album Vauxhall and I) contains dialogue from the film.