Brighton Rock (1947)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 92m
Director: John Boulting
Cast: Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, Harcourt Williams, William Hartnell
Synopsis:
A smalltime racketeer is squeezed out by the Italian opposition and persecuted by the investigations of an actress and his own pathological guilt following a murder he committed.
Review:
A compellingly directed and acted gangster film from the pen of doubting Catholic Greene, bleaker than its American counterpart and even managing to get ironic mileage out of the mercifully (and unfaithfully) sticking record at the end. Dramatically it shows how evil begets evil but is powerless when confronted with undiluted good, though unlike Greene's original it would have good untainted by the contact. Commercially it established its star in his distinguished acting career.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 92m
Director: John Boulting
Cast: Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, Harcourt Williams, William Hartnell
Synopsis:
A smalltime racketeer is squeezed out by the Italian opposition and persecuted by the investigations of an actress and his own pathological guilt following a murder he committed.
Review:
A compellingly directed and acted gangster film from the pen of doubting Catholic Greene, bleaker than its American counterpart and even managing to get ironic mileage out of the mercifully (and unfaithfully) sticking record at the end. Dramatically it shows how evil begets evil but is powerless when confronted with undiluted good, though unlike Greene's original it would have good untainted by the contact. Commercially it established its star in his distinguished acting career.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 92m
Director: John Boulting
Cast: Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, Harcourt Williams, William Hartnell
Synopsis:
A smalltime racketeer is squeezed out by the Italian opposition and persecuted by the investigations of an actress and his own pathological guilt following a murder he committed.
Review:
A compellingly directed and acted gangster film from the pen of doubting Catholic Greene, bleaker than its American counterpart and even managing to get ironic mileage out of the mercifully (and unfaithfully) sticking record at the end. Dramatically it shows how evil begets evil but is powerless when confronted with undiluted good, though unlike Greene's original it would have good untainted by the contact. Commercially it established its star in his distinguished acting career.