- BFI identifier24732
- Date1948-01-26 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisGangster story set in Brighton (Synopsis)
- Work historyThe following statement appears after the opening credits: 'Brighton today is a large, jolly, friendly seaside town in Sussex, exactly one hour's journey from London. But in the years between the two wars, behind the Regency terraces and crowded beaches, there was another Brighton of dark alleyways and festering slums. From here, the poison of crime and violence and gang warfare began to spread, until the challenge was taken up by the Police. This is a story of that other Brighton - now happily no more.'
- Genre
- CategoryFiction
- Subject
- CreditsDirected by: John Boulting
Presents: Associated British Picture Corporation
[Production Company]: Charter Film Productions
view all - CastRichard Attenborough (Pinkie Brown)
Hermione Baddeley (Ida Arnold)
William Hartnell (Dallow)
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Title
Brighton Rock (Original)
Young Scarface (Alternative)
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available to view in BFI Reuben Library - Scripts / DocumentsDocument: report - Based on the novel by Graham Greene - bbfc-1-11-1175
Script - Original story: Greene, Graham - SCR-1111
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Ephemera: publicity - PBS-24732
Ephemera: publicity - PBM-24732
Medium and small press-sheets held. See CAROL MARSH collection.
view all - Posters / DesignsPoster: film - Single sheet portrait poster - PD-12663
Poster: film - Unassembled three sheet poster - PD-12664
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