Brighton Rock (1948 film) Brighton Rock (1948 film) Brighton Rock is a 1948 British gangster film noir directed by John Boulting and starring Richard Attenborough as violent gang leader Pinkie Brown (reprising his breakthrough West End creation of the character some three years earlier), Carol Marsh as the innocent girl he marries, and Hermione Baddeley as an amateur sleuth investigating a murder he committed. 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. It was later released in the United States under the title "Young
The Comedians (novel) in its core there lies the steel coil of compulsion." She describes the novel as a "very good story, as we have come to expect." In describing the characters, she notes that Brown goes to Haiti as "the only place on earth where he might be said to have a stake, a love affair, and a piece of property." In his "Ways of Escape", Greene wrote that the book "touched him [Duvalier] on the raw." Duvalier attacked "The Comedians" in the press. His Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a brochure entitled, "Graham Greene "Demasqué"" (Finally Exposed). It described Greene as