Event Details
A young Richard Attenborough, embodying the quintessential smooth-talking, suave-dressing gent of British cinema, plays Pinkie, a hoodlum forced to marry the witness to a murder he committed. The script, based on English writer Graham Greene’s novel, was cowritten by Greene and Terence Rattigan, one of the country’s most popular dramatists.
Produced by the Boulting brothers—John would direct, Roy would produce—and shot with an expressionistic, noir style by Harry Waxman (Sapphire, 1959) on location in the seaside town of Brighton, the picture was a box office success and a critical flop, with its more violent sequences causing moral panic throughout the country—the film was even banned in parts of Wales.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1948 | 92 min. | UK | Black-and-White | English | Not Rated | 35mm
DIRECTED BY: John Boulting
WRITTEN BY: Graham Greene, Terence Rattigan
BASED ON A NOVEL BY: Graham Greene
WITH: Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Harcourt Williams