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Brighton Rock

Play trailer Poster for Brighton Rock 1948,  1h 32m,  Crime/ Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 95% 21 Reviews Tomatometer 85% 1,000+ Ratings Popcornmeter
95% Tomatometer 21 Reviews 85% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings
In the 1940s Brighton, England, the vicious criminal Pinkie Brown is the leader of his small-time gang. After Brown murders a rival, he finds an alibi through a waitress, Rose, whom he promises to marry in return for her corroboration. Despite the police ruling it a suicide, Ida Arnold, a woman who was with Brown's victim before the murder, continues with her own investigation. Meanwhile, Brown is rapidly losing his grip on the situation.

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Robert Daniels RogerEbert.com Aug 22, 2025
Attenborough arrestingly plays [Pinkie] as a cowardly and manipulative animal deserving of death. Go to Full Review
Wendy Ide The Times (UK) Jul 6, 2023
Richard Attenborough, aged only 24, creates one of the most chilling antiheroes in British cinema: baby-faced psychopath Pinkie Brown takes an unsettling satisfaction in his capacity for cruelty and ruthlessness. Go to Full Review
David Thomson The New Republic Jun 24, 2013
Anyone interested after seeing this film [the 2011 version] should go straight to the 1947 original and the uncanny way in which the steadily decent and amiable Attenborough was so scary. Go to Full Review
Sarah Boslaugh PopMatters May 5, 2020
8/10
...cinematographer Harry Waxman captures the desperate grittiness of a resort town during the Great Depression. Go to Full Review
MFB Critics Monthly Film Bulletin Jan 23, 2018
Brighton Rock is disappointing and difficult to follow. Those who have not read the book will be completely at sea, and those who have will be irritated at the tricks played with a superb story. Go to Full Review
Jeremy Carr MUBI Jan 9, 2018
Based on Graham Greene's 1938 novel of the same name, and directed by John Boulting...this superb picture discloses with penetrating clarity an emotional street life teeming beneath the veneer of amusement park gaiety. Go to Full Review
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Jul 7, 2018 I love brighton rock. Definitely a classic movie. It is one of Richard Attenborough's best films. I ordered the movie on amazon and I just wanted it. Richard attenborough was extremely young in this one. See more
Han S May 2, 2017 This had done the impossible: creating an American Noir in Britain.
Poe S Mar 31, 2013 Moody British film noir with a classic performance by Richard Attenborough.
Kylo L Aug 11, 2010 Richard Attenborough is so good at playing a psychopath. Surprisingly dark for the year it was made.
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Cast & Crew

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John Boulting

Director

Richard Attenborough

Pinkie Brown

Hermione Baddeley

Ida Arnold

William Hartnell

Dallow

Carol Marsh

Rose Brown

Nigel Stock

Cubitt

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Movie Info

Synopsis In the 1940s Brighton, England, the vicious criminal Pinkie Brown is the leader of his small-time gang. After Brown murders a rival, he finds an alibi through a waitress, Rose, whom he promises to marry in return for her corroboration. Despite the police ruling it a suicide, Ida Arnold, a woman who was with Brown's victim before the murder, continues with her own investigation. Meanwhile, Brown is rapidly losing his grip on the situation.
Director
John Boulting
Producer
Roy Boulting
Screenwriter
Graham Greene
Production Co
Charter Films Inc.
Genre
Crime, Drama
Original Language
British English
Rerelease Date (Theaters)
Jun 19, 2009
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 11, 2011
Box Office (Gross USA)
$10.6K
Runtime
1h 32m
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