The Good Die Young

The Good Die Young
US 1955 cinema poster
Directed byLewis Gilbert
Screenplay by
Based onThe Good Die Young
by Richard Macaulay
Produced byJohn Woolf
Jack Clayton
Starring
CinematographyJack Asher
Edited byRalph Kemplen
Music byGeorges Auric
Production
company
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 2 March 1954 (1954-03-02) (UK)
  • 29 November 1955 (1955-11-29) (US)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Good Die Young is a 1954 British crime film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, Joan Collins, Stanley Baker, Richard Basehart and John Ireland.[1] It was made by Remus Films from a screenplay by Vernon Harris and Gilbert based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Richard Macaulay. It tells the story of four men in London with no criminal past whose marriages and finances are collapsing and, meeting in a pub, are tempted to redeem their situations by a robbery.

  1. ^ "The Good Die Young". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 28 October 2023.