Brighton Rock

Complex, disturbing noir character study/thriller about a 17 year old baby-faced gang leader named `Pinky, played by the director-to-be Richard Attenborough in an astonishing performance. Based on a Graham Greene novel, and co-written by Green and Terrence Rattigan (The Browning Version, The Winslow Boy), Pinky is a tremendously complex character, a sociopath to be sure, but one with a heart still beating somewhere deep down inside. Tortured by his Catholic upbringing, and repressed sexually, he vents his teen angst in violence that becomes increasingly uncontrollable, while finding his heart touched in spite of himself by a girl he marries ostensibly just to keep her from giving evidence against him. This is a tough picture, no Hollywood softened edges here. And arguably one of the better gangster films ever made.

This is a terrific film, and you cant get it on disk in the US. Read about it on allmovie.com.

Complex, disturbing noir character study/thriller about a 17 year old baby-faced gang leader named `Pinky, played by the director-to-be Richard Attenborough in an astonishing performance. Based on a Graham Greene novel, and co-written by Green and Terrence Rattigan (The Browning Version, The Winslow Boy), Pinky is a tremendously complex character, a sociopath to be sure, but one with a heart still beating somewhere deep down inside. Tortured by his Catholic upbringing, and repressed sexually, he vents his teen angst in violence that becomes increasingly uncontrollable, while finding his heart touched in spite of himself by a girl he marries ostensibly just to keep her from giving evidence against him. This is a tough picture, no Hollywood softened edges here. And arguably one of the better gangster films ever made.

Great Black and White with riveting suspense.

No worth buying.

Brighton Rock, (1947) is a classic 92-minute black and white film noir adaptation of outstanding British author Graham Greenes classic, early career, downbeat novel of the same name,

really loved this classic film..I am a fan of british classics and film in general. Rare richard attenborough film. thanks, jean salatino

Excellent performances by Attenborough and Baddeley with a good supporting cast. Just as dark as the book, but in an abbreviated format.

This great and sturdy plot has been remade recently but, of course, the original is better. All well done. I was going to stay away because it seemed so old and English but its so ahead of its time. And of course the denouement is one of the best ever.

Richard Attenborough is sensational as a psychotic gangster. Bright Rocks still rocks after almost 70 years.