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Directed by | John Boulting |
Written by | Graham Greene Terence Rattigan |
Based on | Brighton Rock 1938 novel by Graham Greene |
Produced by | Roy Boulting |
Starring | Richard Attenborough Hermione Baddeley William Hartnell Carol Marsh |
Cinematography | Harry Waxman |
Edited by | Peter Graham Scott |
Music by | Hans May |
Production companies | Charter Film Productions Associated British Picture Corporation |
Distributed by | Pathé Pictures |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | £192,436[3] |
Box office | £190,147 (UK)[4] |
Brighton Rock (US: Young Scarface) is a 1948 British gangster film noir directed by John Boulting and starring Richard Attenborough as violent gang leader Pinkie Brown (reprising his West End role of three years earlier),[5] Rose Brown (Carol Marsh) as the innocent girl he marries, and Ida Arnold (Hermione Baddeley) as an amateur sleuth investigating a murder he committed.[6]
The film was adapted from the 1938 novel Brighton Rock by Graham Greene, and was produced by Roy Boulting through the Boulting brothers' production company Charter Film Productions.
The title comes from the old-fashioned candy "a stick of rock": Ida in the film says that like Brighton rock she doesn't change—as the name Brighton stays written the whole way through.