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
Graham C. Greene Alexander, a stepdaughter named Charlotte and a stepson. Graham C. Greene Graham Carleton Greene, CBE, (10 July 1936 – 10 October 2016) was a British publisher who was managing director of Jonathan Cape from 1962 to 1990, and the nephew of the novelist Graham Greene. He was chairman of the British Museum. Graham was born in Berlin to Hugh Carleton Greene (who was The Daily Telegraph's correspondent) and Helga Guinness. Most of his childhood was spent in the United Kingdom, with his education taking place at Eton College and University College, Oxford. After a period with the Guinness Mahon family