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Brighton Rock (1947)

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Reviews Counted:12

Fresh:12

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Average Rating:8/10

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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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
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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
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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]
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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
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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
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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

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
Variety Staff
Variety
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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

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

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01/01/00
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
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