The Angry Silence

The Angry Silence
Directed byGuy Green
Screenplay byBryan Forbes
Story byRichard Gregson
Michael Craig
Produced byRichard Attenborough
Bryan Forbes
Jack Rix
StarringRichard Attenborough
Pier Angeli
Michael Craig
Bernard Lee
CinematographyArthur Ibbetson
Edited byAnthony Harvey
Music byMalcolm Arnold
Production
company
Beaver Films
Distributed byBritish Lion Film Corporation
Release date
  • 15 March 1960 (1960-03-15)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£97,000[1][2]

The Angry Silence is a 1960 black-and-white British drama film directed by Guy Green and starring Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig and Bernard Lee.[3]

The film marked the first release through screenwriter Bryan Forbes's production venture, Beaver Films, and Forbes won a BAFTA Award and an Oscar nomination for his contribution (shared with original story writers Michael Craig and Richard Gregson).[4] Green called it a "landmark" in his career.[5]

  1. ^ Alexander Walker, Hollywood, England, Stein and Day, 1974 pp 98-101
  2. ^ Brian McFarlane, An Autobiography of British Cinema, Metheun 1997 p193
  3. ^ "The Angry Silence". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  4. ^ "The Angry Silence: the film they tried to ban". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
  5. ^ Schwartzman, Arnold (19 November 1991). "Interview with Guy Green side 3". British Entertainment History Project.

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