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Brighton Rock is a British film of genre Drama directed by John Boulting released in USA on 7 november 1951 with Richard Attenborough
Brighton Rock (1948)
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Add to a movie listBrighton Rock is a 1947 British film noir directed by John Boulting and starring Richard Attenborough as Pinkie (reprising his breakthrough West End creation of the character some three years earlier), Carol Marsh as Rose, William Hartnell as Dallow and Hermione Baddeley as Ida.
It was produced by Roy Boulting through the brothers' production company Charter Film Productions. The film was adapted from the 1938 novel Brighton Rock by Graham Greene. In the United States, Brighton Rock was retitled Young Scarface.
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This drama film centres on a gang of assorted criminals led by a psychopathic teen-aged hoodlum known as "Pinkie." The film's real-life theme was the race-track gangs of the 1930s, which fought public battles with straight razors in their competition to control crime at racecourses in southern England. One of these racecourses was at Brighton, a popular seaside resort.Actors
Richard Attenborough
(Pinkie Brown)
Hermione Baddeley
(Ida Arnold)
William Hartnell
(Dallow)
Carol Marsh
(Rose Brown)
Harcourt Williams
(Prewitt)
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