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Brighton Rock (1947)

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Reviews Counted:12

Fresh:12

Rotten:0

Average Rating:8/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: As cheap gangster Pinkie Brown, Attenborough is in top form, rashly commiting a murder and using a waitress to provide his alibi with unexpected consequences. Based on the novel by Graham Greene.... As cheap gangster Pinkie Brown, Attenborough is in top form, rashly commiting a murder and using a waitress to provide his alibi with unexpected consequences. Based on the novel by Graham Greene. Terrence Rattigan collaborated on the screenplay. AKA "Young Scarface." [More]

Starring: Richard Attenborough, William Hartnell, Carol Marsh, Nigel Stock

Starring: Richard Attenborough, William Hartnell, Carol Marsh, Nigel Stock, Wylie Watson, Alan Wheatley, George Carney, Reginald Purdell, Hermione Baddeley

Director: John Boulting

Director: John Boulting
Screenwriter: Terence Rattigan
Story: Graham Greene

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Nov 30, 1999

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As brassy, boozy, and blonde entertainer Ida Arnold, [Hermione Baddeley] is a blast of smoky and stale music-hall air.

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06/28/09
Kent Turner
Kent Turner
Film-Forward.com

The future Lord Dickie’s sinister stylings are what linger, especially the vitriolic audio recording he makes for his betrothed, done as if damnation were the most casual of enterprises.

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06/17/09
Keith Uhlich
Keith Uhlich
Time Out New York

A brutal look at the British underworld -- as seen through the amoral eyes of teenaged thug Pinkie Brown, played brilliantly by the 24 year-old Attenborough.

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06/17/09
TV Guide's Movie Guide

A seedy noir, equal parts concealed-camera atmosphere and tense set pieces.

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06/16/09
Vadim Rizov
Vadim Rizov
Village Voice
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nuanced and subtle

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06/13/09
Chris Cabin
Chris Cabin
Filmcritic.com

This tends to prove that Britain can turn out a gangster picture as brutal as any Hollywood had devised.

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11/20/08
Variety Staff
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Attenborough's Pinky is ... one of the scariest noir villains of all time.

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04/23/07
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
Goatdog's Movies

Director John Boulting brings the fabled Greeneland, that vile landscape ripened on sin and betrayal at the black heart of all his novels, to sensuous life.

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12/30/06
Ian Nathan
Ian Nathan
Empire Magazine

Brighton Rock takes the US noir thriller formula and blends it with a striking vision of the British seaside town in the 1930s.

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05/24/03
Channel 4 Film

Brighton Rock is worth another viewing simply as a reminder that gangster films are meant to be unsettling.

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05/26/02
Jake Arnott
Jake Arnott
Guardian [UK]

John Boulting's adaptation of Graham Greene's classic novel stakes its claim as one of the darkest films ever to be made on these shores.

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05/20/02
Jamie Russell
Jamie Russell
BBC

If you have any kind of feel for noir films, this one is in the don't miss category.

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Dennis Schwartz
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