Brighton Palace Pier The Graham Greene novel "Brighton Rock" featured the Palace Pier. John Boulting's 1947 film adaptation helped established "low life" subculture in Brighton, and the climax of the film is set on it, where gangleader Pinkie Brown (played by Richard Attenborough) falls to his death. The 1953 B movie "Girl on a Pier" is set around the Palace Pier and also features the clash between holidaymakers and gangsters in Brighton. The Who's 1973 concept album "Quadrophenia" was inspired in part by band leader Pete Townshend spending a night underneath the pier in March 1964. It is a pivotal part of the
Nancy Hale said that "she meant it to be.". Her second novel, "Never Any More", published in 1934, was about the antagonism of three girls whose mothers are friends. By this time, Hale had divorced Hardin, with whom she had one son, Mark. In 1935, she married the journalist, Charles Wertenbaker and, in 1936, moved with him to Charlottesville, Virginia. That same year, she published her first collection of short stories, "The Earliest Dreams". She and Wertenbaker had a son, named William, in 1938, but the couple divorced in 1941. In 1942, Hale married Fredson Bowers, a professor of English at the