Did it really exist? Fucked if I know. I'm just using the term as a convenient bit of shorthand for these tedious postings. A bloke called Jim Morrison (no, another one) once told my wife there wasn't much of a sexual revolution going on in Dagenham.
Terrible films BTW, almost all of them, not a patch on the stuff that came out pre-Bond, like 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'. Some of the European offerings of the same period are bad, but very few home-grown films came up to the standards of 'The Four Hundred Blows' or 'Shoot The Pianist', let alone early De Sica. It's difficult to believe that any British film-maker could have matched 'A Bout De Souffle'. But Finney and Roberts come close to perfection - especially when you consider odd stuff like 'Charlie Bubbles' later. It had its moments, though - mostly courtesy of the fabulous Billie Whitelaw.
Oh yes, I see... Wasn't the term invented to sell some copies of Time magazine?
Would'nt be at all surprised. 'London Fog' level.
Burroughs use to say, that the time to be in London was in the '50's: unregulated Soho, greasy spoons and dirt cheap. By the Sixties it was too 'effing expensive.
I think you'll find Chris H said it first...