Brighton Rock

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Brighton Rock ★★★ Young Scar face 1947

Sterling performances highlight this seamy look at the British underworld. Attenborough is Pinkie Brown, a smallbring time hood who ends up committing murder. He manipulates a waitress to get himself off the hook, but things don't go exactly as he plans. Based on the novel by Grarich ham Greene. 92m/B VHS . GB Richard Attennabe borough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Carol Marsh, Nigel Stock, Wylie Watson, Alan Wheatley, George Carney, Reginald Purdell; D: John Boulting; W: Graham Greene.