布赖顿硬糖 (1948)
Brighton Rock
英国著名的海滨旅游胜地布莱顿，两个黑帮团伙发生火并，十七岁的平基在首领遇害后上位，并杀死一名告密的记者以树立威信。不料记者生前的恋人开始追查凶手，再加上帮派内斗争日趋激烈，平基渐渐无法应付巨大的压力。影片改编自格雷厄姆·格林的犯罪小说，是英国40年代黑帮片杰作。
演员阵容
- 理查德·阿滕伯勒 — Pinkie Brown
- 赫敏·巴德利 — Ida Arnold
- William Hartnell — Dallow
- Nigel Stock — Cubitt
- Wylie Watson — Spicer
- Carol Marsh — Rose Brown
- 哈考特·威廉姆斯 — Prewitt
- Virginia Winter — Judy
- Reginald Purdell — Frank
- George Carney — Phil Corkery
- Charles Goldner — Colleoni
- Alan Wheatley — Fred Hale
趣闻
- 预算：£19.2万
- 改编自：平克頓·布朗
Brighton Rock is a 1948 British film noir directed by John Boulting, produced Roy Boulting, and starring Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell and Carol Marsh in her film debut. It is based on the 1938 novel by Graham Greene, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Terence Rattigan, and its 1943 stage adaptation by Frank Harvey.
Production
Greene and Terence Rattigan wrote the screenplay for the 1948 film adaptation, produced and directed by John and Roy Boulting, with assistant director Gerald Mitchell. The ironic ending of the film, in which Rose's damaged gramophone record of Pinkie's voice sticks and repeats the words "I love you", was changed against Greene's wishes from his original story, in which Rose is about to hear the entire recording and will realise that Pinkie hated…
The Colleoni gang was modelled after the Sabini racetrack gang of the 1930s, which fought public battles with straight razors in its competition to control crime at racecourses in southern England, including one at Brighton. A former Sabini gang member named Carl Ramon served as technical adviser, including teaching Attenborough how to behave as Pinkie. Ramon also appeared in a non-speaking role as a barman.
Most of the principal cast reprised their roles from the 1943 West End play: Richard Attenborough, William Hartnell, Norman Pierce, Harcourt Williams and Hermione Baddeley. The Boultings later stated that they had not actually seen the play, but cast Attenborough on the strength of his performance in In Which We Serve (1942). Instructed to lose weight for the film, Attenborough trained with Chelsea F.C.
Newcomer Carol Marsh was cast as Rose after responding to a newspaper advertisement for a 16 or 17-year-old girl, "frail, innocent, naive, and tolerably but not excessively pretty." Although the film was her most significant role, in 1997 she said that she "had never seen the film and couldn't bear to."
Much of the filming was done on location in Brighton, although some locations were recreated at Welwyn Studios. The scenes where Fred is pursued through Brighton were shot with hidden cameras, capturing footage of Brighton residents and tourists engaged in their regular activities, unaware that a movie was being made.
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