Brighton Rock (1948 film)

Brighton Rock
Directed by	John Boulting
Written by	Graham Greene Terence Rattigan
Based on	Brighton Rock 1938 novel by Graham Greene
Produced by	Roy Boulting
Starring	Richard Attenborough Hermione Baddeley William Hartnell Carol Marsh
Cinematography	Harry Waxman
Edited by	Peter Graham Scott
Music by	Hans May
Production companies	Charter Film Productions Associated British Picture Corporation
Distributed by	Pathé Pictures
Release date	8 January 1948 (1948-01-08) (Brighton) (premiere)[1][2]
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£192,436[3]
Box office	£190,147 (UK)[4]

Brighton Rock (US: Young Scarface) is a 1948 British gangster film noir directed by John Boulting and starring Richard Attenborough as violent gang leader Pinkie Brown (reprising his West End role of three years earlier),^[5] Rose Brown (Carol Marsh) as the innocent girl he marries, and Ida Arnold (Hermione Baddeley) as an amateur sleuth investigating a murder he committed.^[6]

The film was adapted from the 1938 novel Brighton Rock by Graham Greene, and was produced by Roy Boulting through the Boulting brothers' production company Charter Film Productions.

The title comes from the old-fashioned candy "a stick of rock": Ida in the film says that like Brighton rock she doesn't change—as the name Brighton stays written the whole way through.