Sussex on Screen: Brighton Rock
Cinema
John Boulting, 1947 1h 32m (PG)
This classic and propulsive British noir is screening as part of Sussex on Screen, a season showcasing films which feature Sussex landscapes and locations.
Currently not showing
The screening on 9 August will be introduced by Dr Alistair Davies, Centre for Modernist Studies, University of Sussex
Richard Attenborough is unforgettable as ‘Pinkie’ – the brutal gangster who seduces and grooms a simple waitress, Rose (Carol Marsh) in the belief that she could incriminate him in a murder – in John Boulting’s classic Brighton Rock.
Brilliantly adapted by playwright Terence Rattigan from Graham Greene’s novel, it’s a taut and propulsive British noir, known for its bleak violence and memorably cynical ending. It also offers the quintessential evocation of post-war Brighton; its tea-rooms, racetracks and shabby boarding houses all starkly captured by Harry Waxman's superb, atmospheric cinematography.