Brighton Rock
Leaving January 31
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1h 32m
Directed by John Boulting • 1948 • United Kingdom
Starring Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell
One of darkest and most sordid of all British noirs, this startlingly bleak, violent adaptation of the novel by Graham Greene delves into the seedy underbelly of the seaside resort city of Brighton, where psychotic, baby-faced gangster Pinkie Brown (a frighteningly menacing Richard Attenborough) leads a band of razor-wielding hoodlums terrorizing the town. When the murder of a rival spirals out of control, Pinkie resorts to increasingly desperate measures to elude detection, while a brassy showgirl turned amateur detective (Hermione Baddeley) closes in on him.
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