| Brighton Rock | |
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| Directed by | John Boulting |
| Written by | Graham Greene Terence Rattigan |
| Based on | Brighton Rock 1938 novel by Graham Greene |
| Produced by | Roy Boulting |
| Starring | Richard Attenborough Hermione Baddeley William Hartnell Carol Marsh |
| Cinematography | Harry Waxman |
| Edited by | Peter Graham Scott |
| Music by | Hans May |
Production companies | Charter Film Productions Associated British Picture Corporation |
| Distributed by | Pathé Pictures |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £192,436[3] |
| Box office | £190,147 (UK)[4] |
Brighton Rock (US: Young Scarface) is a 1948 British gangster film noir directed by John Boulting and starring Richard Attenborough as violent gang leader Pinkie Brown (reprising his West End role of three years earlier),[5] Rose Brown (Carol Marsh) as the innocent girl he marries, and Ida Arnold (Hermione Baddeley) as an amateur sleuth investigating a murder he committed.[6]
The film was adapted from the 1938 novel Brighton Rock by Graham Greene, and was produced by Roy Boulting through the Boulting brothers' production company Charter Film Productions.
The title comes from the old-fashioned confectionary "a stick of rock": Ida in the film says that like Brighton rock she doesn't change—as the name Brighton stays written the whole way through.
The movie is an example of what British film-theorist Peter Wollen has called a "Spiv cycle" movie, defined by its sympathetic treatment of post-war gangsters.[7]
- ^ "Brighton Rock". Art & Hue. 2021.
- ^ British Newspaper Archive
- ^ Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 355.
- ^ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p485
- ^ NY Times biography The New York Times. Retrieved 14 June 2009.
- ^ "Brighton Rock". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
- ^ Arnott, Jake (20 July 2002). "Mad, bad and dangerous to know". The Guardian.