Black and white photo of a man in a vest and striped shirt sitting on a bed, holding a doll with yarn hair in his hands.

Brighton Rock

classified PG

part of Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair

Film

Director
John Boulting
Cast
Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell
Details
92 mins, 1947, United Kingdom
Primary language
English

Roy Boulton directs this classic adaptation of the Graham Greene novel detailing the activities of a group of thugs in 1930s Brighton. 

Pinkie Brown (Richard Attenborough) is the head of a gang of small time crooks who make their money from a protection racket centred around Brighton race course. Pinkie is known for his short fuse and brutality, so his murder of a rival, Fred (Alan Wheatley), is very much in character. 

Pinkie believes, nonetheless, that he has got away with the crime until the promptings of a suspicious local woman, Ida (Hermione Baddeley), threaten to have the case reopened. 

Since only one person can identify him as the murderer, the waitress, Rose Brown (Carol Marsh), Pinkie comes up with an ingenious solution - marry Rose to stop her testifying against him. But will things go to plan?


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