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Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock

Parental Guidance.Info Stars: Richard Attenborough, Carol Marsh, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Nigel Stock, Wylie Watson

Director: John Boulting

Summary: Based on Graham Greene's novel, which tells of a young man who hunts down a squealer and kills him. A music hall artiste sets herself up as his Nemesis in an effort to see justice done.

In this vivid adaptation of Graham Greene's novel about the seedy British underworld, Richard Attenborough appears in top form as petty gangster Pinkie Brown. The manipulative thug rashly commits a murder and uses a waitress (Carol Marsh) to provide his alibi with unexpected consequences.

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amazon.co.uk Hard to imagine now but long before Richard Attenborough became Lord Dickie, benevolent patriarch of British moviedom, he specialised in playing weaselly little thugs and punks. Brighton Rock, adapted from Graham Greene's classic novel, offered him one of his best early roles as Pinkie, juvenile leader of a seedy gang of racetrack crooks in the Sussex seaside town. When it seems an innocent young waitress may know too much about one of their killings, Pinkie decides to keep her quiet by marrying her. But in Greene's world of guilt-ridden Catholicism and inexorable doom, it was never going to be that easy.

Is the famous twist ending a cop-out? That depends just how much irony you read into it. But the Brighton atmosphere, all tawdry gaiety shot through with a crackling undercurrent of fear, is so vivid you can smell it. Made with a cool, dispassionate eye by the Boulting Brothers (before they turned jokey with the likes of I'm Alright Jack, for instance) and superbly shot by Harry Waxman, this is one of Britain's few great contributions to the noir thriller cycle. Young Dickie, twitchy, vicious and terrified, is a revelation--and don't miss William Hartnell, the original Dr Who, as his cynical sidekick. --Philip Kemp

Main Language: English
Region: Region 2
Year: 1947
Release Date: September 25, 2006
Runtime: 89 minutes
Certification: Parental Guidance.
Catalogue Number: O P T D 0586
Keywords: Rock, Brighton, General, Young, Scarface, Drama
Genre: Drama

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