Saturday, January 23, 2010

Brighton Rock (1947)

Directed by John Boulting
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)

Richard Attenborough is Pinkie, a sadistic 17-year-old gangster in the English seaside resort town of Brighton. He meets and marries Rose, played marvelously by Carol Marsh, a potential witness to one of his murders, to keep her from testifying. His paranoia intensifies and he kills another member of his own gang. He cooks up an idea to do away with Rose, but things do not go as planned. Among several memorable scenes are a killing on an amusement park dark house ride and a trick ending involving a phonograph record.

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