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
Brighton Rock (1947)
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Average Rating:8/10
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.... [More]
Starring: Richard Attenborough, William Hartnell, Carol Marsh, Nigel Stock
Director: John Boulting
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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.
06/17/09
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.
06/17/09
A seedy noir, equal parts concealed-camera atmosphere and tense set pieces.
06/16/09
Top Criticnuanced and subtle
06/13/09
This tends to prove that Britain can turn out a gangster picture as brutal as any Hollywood had devised.
11/20/08
Top CriticAttenborough's Pinky is ... one of the scariest noir villains of all time.
04/23/07
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.
12/30/06
Brighton Rock takes the US noir thriller formula and blends it with a striking vision of the British seaside town in the 1930s.
05/24/03
Brighton Rock is worth another viewing simply as a reminder that gangster films are meant to be unsettling.
05/26/02
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.
05/20/02
If you have any kind of feel for noir films, this one is in the don't miss category.
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