Brighton Rock

1948 · 1 hr 32 min · Not Rated

Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Directors

John Boulting

Actors

Richard Attenborough
Hermione Baddeley
William Hartnell

Summary

In Brighton in 1935, small-time gang leader Pinkie Brown murders a journalist and later desperately tries to cover his tracks but runs into trouble with the police, a few witnesses, and a rival gang.

More about this movie

Pinkie's a small-town hood who's trying to carve out a place for his gang in the Brighton rackets. When he murders a journalist he believes was responsible for the death of a fellow gang-member, Ida Arnold, who was with the man just before he died, sets out to find the truth.

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