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Boys in Brown is a British film of genre Drama directed by Montgomery Tully with Jack Warner

Boys in Brown (1949)

Boys in Brown
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Length 1h25
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Genres Drama,    Crime
Rating61% 3.0526353.0526353.0526353.0526353.052635

Boys in Brown is a 1949 British drama film directed by Montgomery Tully. Depicting life in a borstal for young offenders, it starred Jack Warner, Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde and Jimmy Hanley.

Synopsis

Teenager Jackie Knowles (Richard Attenborough) drives a getaway car in a robbery. He is captured and sentenced to serve three years in a borstal institution run by a sympathetic governor (Jack Warner). He befriends Alfie (Dirk Bogarde) and Bill (Jimmy Hanley).

Actors

Jack Warner

(Governor)Richard Attenborough

(Jackie Knowles)Dirk Bogarde

(Alfie Rawlins)Jimmy Hanley

(Bill Foster)Barbara Murray

(Kitty Hurst)
And :
Patrick Holt
Dame Thora Hird
Michael Medwin
Alfie Bass
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