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Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Country
United Kingdom
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Year
1948
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Genre
Thriller
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Alternative titles
- Young Scarface Alternative
Introduction
“John Boulting’s adaptation of Graham Greene’s classic novel stakes its claim as one of the darkest films ever to be made on these shores.”
Jamie Russell, BBC Films
To ensure her silence, 17-year-old gangster Pinkie Brown marries the shy waitress (Carol Marsh) who could implicate his gang in a murder. Meanwhile a sea-front entertainer (Hermione Baddeley) tries to solve the crime. The normally amiable Attenborough is so startlingly mean as Pinkie Brown, who dominates his much older gang through sheer force of personality, that the film dips whenever it cuts away to its more humorous subplot and colourful supporting characters.
Scripted for the Boulting Brothers by the illustrious combination of Graham Greene and Terence Rattigan, the film’s tone veers jarringly between doom-laden noir, broad character comedy and the earnest Catholic preoccupations of Greene’s 1938 source novel, but vivid scenes shot on Brighton’s streets and racecourse keep things moving.
A 2010 remake transported the action to mod-era 1960s Brighton. Richard Attenborough showed his darker side once more as the serial killer in 10 Rillington Place (1971).
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Pinkie Brown
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Ida Arnold
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Dallow
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Cubitt
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Spicer
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Rose
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Prewitt
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Judy
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Frank
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Phil Corkery
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Colleoni
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Fred Hale/'Kolley Kibber'
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Molly
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Delia
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Bill Brewer
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police inspector
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waitress
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racecourse evangelist
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[Jim, publican]
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[look-out]
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[Harold]
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[Shirley]
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[Bill, air gun concession]
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[orchestra]
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[singer]
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[manageress]
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[registrar]
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[mother superior]
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[detective]
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[Crabbe]
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Credits
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Direction:
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Directed by
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Assistant Director
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[Assistant Director (2nd)]
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[Assistant Director (3rd)]
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[Assistant Director (3rd)]
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[Assistant Director (3rd)]
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[Continuity]
Production:
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Presents
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[Production Company]
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Distributed throughout the world by
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Produced by
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Associate Producer
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Production Manager
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Made at
Writing:
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Screenplay by
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Screenplay by
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From the novel by
Photography:
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Director of Photography
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Camera Operator
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[Focus Puller]
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[Clapper Loader]
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[Clapper Loader]
Stills:
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[Stills]
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[Stills]
Editing:
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Editor
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[Assistant Editor]
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[Assistant Editor]
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[Assistant Editor (2nd)]
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[Chief Cutter]
Design:
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Art Director
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[Assistant Art Director]
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[Draughtsman]
Costumes:
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Costumes
Make-up:
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Make-up
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[Assistant Make-up]
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[Hairdresser]
Music:
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Music Composed and Conducted by
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The Song "More Than Ever" by
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[Song] Arranged by
Sound:
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Sound Recordist
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[Sound Camera Operator]
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Sound System
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[Boom Operator]
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[Dubbing Crew]
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[Dubbing Crew]
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Sound Editor
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