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Brighton Rock (Original title)Young Scarface (Alternative title)
Date: 26 January 1948 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: John Boulting

Synopsis: Gangster story set in Brighton

Genre:
Thriller

Subjects:
Crime, Seduction, Gangs
Releases
Date: 12 December 1947Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 91 mins 42 secs - Length: 8253 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Pathe Distribution
Date: 18 March 1994Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Electric Pictures
Date: 26 July 2002Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFI Bookings
Date: 25 September 2006Country: United KingdomRelease type: Home ViewingFormat: DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) - Black and White - SoundDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Optimum Releasing
Date: 2009Country: United KingdomRelease type: RestorationFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundAspect ratio: 4:3Runtime: 92 mins 34 secs - Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: StudioCanal
Date: October 2014Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 92 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer

Credits (46)
Presents: Associated British Picture Corporation, [Production Company]: Charter Film Productions, Distributed throughout the world by: Pathe Pictures Limited, Produced by: Roy Boulting, Associate Producer: Peter De Sarigny, Production Manager: Gerard Bryant, Assistant Director: Gerald Mitchell, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Guy Wilsdon, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: Cliff Owen, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: John Redway, Eric Pavitt, [Continuity]: Gladys Reeve, Screenplay by: Graham Greene, Terence Rattigan, From the novel by: Graham Greene, Director of Photography: Harry Waxman, Camera Operator: Gilbert Taylor, [Focus Puller]: Val Stewart, [Clapper Loader]: Bobby Breen, John Harris, [Stills]: Davis Boulton, W.A. Armour, Editor: Peter Graham Scott, [Assistant Editor]: Audrey Bennett, Jean Newsome, [Assistant Editor (2nd)]: Max Benedict, [Chief Cutter]: Edith Burbeck, Art Director: John Howell, [Assistant Art Director]: Stan Yeomanson, [Draughtsman]: Don Ashton, Costumes: Honoria Plesch, Make-up: Bob Clarke, [Assistant Make-up]: Eric Aylott, [Hairdresser]: Polly Richards, Music Composed and Conducted by: Hans May, The Song "More Than Ever" by: Leslie Julian Jones, [Song] Arranged by: Jock Addison, Sound Recordist: Frank McNally, [Sound Camera Operator]: Norman Coggs, Sound System: RCA Sound System, [Boom Operator]: Alan Tyner, [Dubbing Crew]: Harold V. King, Len Shilton, Sound Editor: Audrey Bennett, Made at: Welwyn Studios
Cast (37)
Richard Attenborough (Pinkie Brown), Hermione Baddeley (Ida Arnold), William Hartnell (Dallow), Nigel Stock (Cubitt), Wylie Watson (Spicer), Carol Marsh (Rose), Harcourt Williams (Prewitt), Virginia Winter (Judy), Reginald Purdell (Frank), George Carney (Phil Corkery), Charles Goldner (Colleoni), Alan Wheatley (Fred Hale/'Kolley Kibber'), Lina Barrie (Molly), Joan Sterndale-Bennett (Delia), Harry Ross (Bill Brewer), Campbell Copelin (police inspector), Mary Stone (waitress), Norman Watson (racecourse evangelist), Basil Cunard ([Jim, publican]), Ronald Shiner ([look-out]), Michael Nicholls ([Harold]), Shirley Lorimer ([Shirley]), Wally Patch ([Bill, air gun concession]), Norman Griffiths and his Orchestra ([orchestra]), Constance Smith ([singer]), Daphne Newton ([manageress]), H.G. Stoker ([registrar]), Anna Steele ([mother superior]), Cyril Chamberlain ([detective]), Michael Brennan ([Crabbe]), Diana Houlston, Barbara Lott, Philip Godfrey, Tony Halfpenny, Jose Williamson, Jackie Joyner, Diana Maddox ([uncredited])