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
Margaret Hale him, she accepts. North and South has been adapted for the small screen, twice. In 1975, Rosalind Shanks played Margaret. In 2004, Margaret was played by Daniela Denby-Ashe. Margaret Hale Margaret Hale is the heroine of Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 novel "North and South". Initially, Gaskell wanted the title of the novel to be "Margaret Hale", but Charles Dickens, the editor of "Household Words", the magazine in which the novel was serialized, insisted on "North and South". From Chapter Two: From Chapter Seven: Margaret was a character created to challenge stereotypes about women's role in the 19th century. The theme of