Graham Greene’s tense crime tale is as important as his classic The Third Man but nowhere near as well known. Down Brighton way the race-track boys have sharp ways of solving disputes and terrorizing the common folk — think ‘straight razor.’ Richard Attenborough’s breakthrough film is also a showcase for Hermoine Baddelely and a marvelous newcomer that every horror fan loves even if they don’t know her name, Carol Marsh. Kino’s disc has a Tim Lucas commentary; this review balances thoughts about mercy and damnation, with an extra insight about a piece of ‘stick candy’ unfamiliar to us Yanks.
Brighton Rock
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1948 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 92 min. / Street Date May 5, 2020 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Carol Marsh, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Harcourt Williams, Wylie Watson, Nigel Stock, Virginia Winter, Reginald Purdell, George Carney, Charles Goldner, Alan Wheatley.
Cinematography: Harry Waxman
Camera operator:...
Brighton Rock
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1948 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 92 min. / Street Date May 5, 2020 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Carol Marsh, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Harcourt Williams, Wylie Watson, Nigel Stock, Virginia Winter, Reginald Purdell, George Carney, Charles Goldner, Alan Wheatley.
Cinematography: Harry Waxman
Camera operator:...
- 5/9/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The best of all Hammer horror pictures finally comes to Region A Blu-ray, with a bright transfer made to look like original Technicolor prints. This is where Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing came into their own as international stars, as the undead Count Dracula and the no-nonsense vampire killer Van Helsing. It’s the bridge between old-school gothic horrors and the modern age of sex and gore, and it’s as exciting as a breakneck action serial.
Horror of Dracula (Dracula)
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1958 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 82 min. / Street Date December 18, 2018 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh, Olga Dickie, John Van Eyssen, Valerie Gaunt, Janina Faye.
Cinematography: Jack Asher
Film Editor: Bill Lenny
Production Designer: Bernard Robinson
:Makeup Artist: Philip Leakey
Original Music: James Bernard
Written by Jimmy Sangster
Produced by Michael Carreras, Anthony Hinds, Anthony Nelson Keys
Directed by...
Horror of Dracula (Dracula)
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1958 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 82 min. / Street Date December 18, 2018 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh, Olga Dickie, John Van Eyssen, Valerie Gaunt, Janina Faye.
Cinematography: Jack Asher
Film Editor: Bill Lenny
Production Designer: Bernard Robinson
:Makeup Artist: Philip Leakey
Original Music: James Bernard
Written by Jimmy Sangster
Produced by Michael Carreras, Anthony Hinds, Anthony Nelson Keys
Directed by...
- 12/8/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. John Boulting's Brighton Rock (1947) is showing December 23, 2017 - January 22, 2018 on Mubi in the United States. There’s a shadow cast over the sun-kissed, seaside resort of Brighton. In 1935, a vulnerable time between two world wars, a noirish stain of violent gangsterdom has contaminated the fun and frivolity of the town’s tourist trade. But that’s largely behind the scenes. In Brighton Rock, a distinctive 1947 British feature, the slums that harbor such murderous criminality are kept under wraps, cloaked by the blinding, warm, soaking sun. Based on Graham Greene’s 1938 novel of the same name, and directed by John Boulting (producing duties went to Boulting brother Roy, though the two would often switch roles for other films), this superb picture discloses with penetrating clarity an emotional street life teeming beneath the veneer of amusement park gaiety.This concealed corruption is made semi-public,...
- 1/9/2018
- MUBI
Top 100 horror movies of all time: Chicago Film Critics' choices (photo: Sigourney Weaver and Alien creature show us that life is less horrific if you don't hold grudges) See previous post: A look at the Chicago Film Critics Association's Scariest Movies Ever Made. Below is the list of the Chicago Film Critics's Top 100 Horror Movies of All Time, including their directors and key cast members. Note: this list was first published in October 2006. (See also: Fay Wray, Lee Patrick, and Mary Philbin among the "Top Ten Scream Queens.") 1. Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock; with Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam. 2. The Exorcist (1973) William Friedkin; with Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Jason Miller, Max von Sydow (and the voice of Mercedes McCambridge). 3. Halloween (1978) John Carpenter; with Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Tony Moran. 4. Alien (1979) Ridley Scott; with Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt. 5. Night of the Living Dead (1968) George A. Romero; with Marilyn Eastman,...
- 10/31/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Horror cinema has a long tradition of creating iconic characters and none more so than those borne in the early days of the genre: characters such as Frankenstein’s monster, the Mummy, the Creature from the Black Lagoon and, of course, Dracula – the king of horror. A character who, despite his many cinematic deaths, always returns to the silver screen for one more bite of flesh… As he does this week in Dracula Untold, which features Luke Evans as the evil Vlad Tepes.
With that in mind we thought we’d rundown the ten best unforgettable Dracula performances in cinema. Check them out below and let us know in the comments if you agree or disagree!
Christopher Lee – Dracula (1958)
Dracula (1958) is the first in the series of Hammer Horror films. Directed by Terence Fisher, Dracula (1958) stars Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh and Michael Gough. Retitled Horror of Dracula...
With that in mind we thought we’d rundown the ten best unforgettable Dracula performances in cinema. Check them out below and let us know in the comments if you agree or disagree!
Christopher Lee – Dracula (1958)
Dracula (1958) is the first in the series of Hammer Horror films. Directed by Terence Fisher, Dracula (1958) stars Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh and Michael Gough. Retitled Horror of Dracula...
- 10/1/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
It has been dismissed over the years as cheesy, cheap and laughable but, as has been the case on many occasions, Hammer Films have had the last laugh. They boast a back-catalogue that is to horror movies what The Rolling Stones’ discography is to rock music. Fifty-nine years after the release of their first horror movie proper (The Quatermass Xperiment), Hammer’s films have survived scrutiny and re-evaluation and have now attained National Treasure status. Moreover, in terms of sheer importance, the Hammer films were some of the most influential of the past half-century. The ripple-effect of their imitators cashing in on their success would beget the careers of some of the biggest names in Hollywood today.
And yet since 1984 Hammer has been a dormant entity, existing only in the memory: a pile of ashes, a cape and a signet ring waiting to be reanimated by the crimson, jugular discharge of some poor,...
And yet since 1984 Hammer has been a dormant entity, existing only in the memory: a pile of ashes, a cape and a signet ring waiting to be reanimated by the crimson, jugular discharge of some poor,...
- 4/8/2014
- by Cai Ross
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Feature Aliya Whiteley 3 Apr 2014 - 07:22
Tend to think of Richard Attenborough as a kindly old man? Aliya digs into his early career to find some far nastier roles...
British cinema has always liked its angry young men: Richard Burton, Albert Finney, Laurence Harvey and others all played the 1950s and 60s social animal, raging against the class system and the staid attitudes of post-war Britain.
But they weren’t the first angry young man on the screen. Maybe that crown could be claimed by an unlikely actor – Richard Attenborough. Attenborough is best known now as a director and producer, for films such as Gandhi, Chaplin and Shadowlands. When he gets thought of as an actor, it’s often as a kindly old man with a white beard. Misguided, sometimes, as when he played John Hammond, the owner of Jurassic Park, but not downright nasty. A lot of his earlier...
Tend to think of Richard Attenborough as a kindly old man? Aliya digs into his early career to find some far nastier roles...
British cinema has always liked its angry young men: Richard Burton, Albert Finney, Laurence Harvey and others all played the 1950s and 60s social animal, raging against the class system and the staid attitudes of post-war Britain.
But they weren’t the first angry young man on the screen. Maybe that crown could be claimed by an unlikely actor – Richard Attenborough. Attenborough is best known now as a director and producer, for films such as Gandhi, Chaplin and Shadowlands. When he gets thought of as an actor, it’s often as a kindly old man with a white beard. Misguided, sometimes, as when he played John Hammond, the owner of Jurassic Park, but not downright nasty. A lot of his earlier...
- 4/1/2014
- by sarahd
- Den of Geek
When you think about vampires the images that spring readily to mind are of tall, dark handsome strangers, of the seduction of the innocent, of smouldering looks and sexual frission, of low cut gowns and bare, bloody breasts. Well they do to my mind, anyway, having been brought up on Hammer films and then graduating to the likes of Tobe Hooper’s Lifeforce (1985), Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark (1987), Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys (1987), and Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula (1992), all of which propagate the dark and sexy image of Transylvania’s least favourite cold caller.
It wasn’t always this way, though. When vampires first appeared on the silver screen they were awkward, ugly things that anybody in their right mind would run from rather than to. Some of them had bald heads, big ears and too many teeth like Max Schreck’s timeless portrayal of Nosferatu (1922), a look...
It wasn’t always this way, though. When vampires first appeared on the silver screen they were awkward, ugly things that anybody in their right mind would run from rather than to. Some of them had bald heads, big ears and too many teeth like Max Schreck’s timeless portrayal of Nosferatu (1922), a look...
- 3/8/2013
- Shadowlocked
Dracula is back from beyond the grave - and he's looking even more fangtastic than ever.
The 1958 classic Dracula, starring Christopher Lee as the count and Peter Cushing as Van Helsing, has been fully restored in high definition and is coming to Blu-ray and DVD for the first time.
It will be released in the UK on March 18, 2013.
Hammer, Icon Film Distribution and Lionsgate have called it "a major event in British film history." Details of the release, including the extras, are included below.
The set will contain two versions of the feature (seamlessly branched on the Blu-ray): the 2007 BFI restoration plus the 2012 Hammer restoration, which adds additional footage lost for decades.
The additional footage comprises two of the scenes that were originally censored by the BBFC in 1958 that have now been restored to the film from reels found in Japan: Dracula's seduction of Mina, and Dracula's sunlight disintegration.
The 1958 classic Dracula, starring Christopher Lee as the count and Peter Cushing as Van Helsing, has been fully restored in high definition and is coming to Blu-ray and DVD for the first time.
It will be released in the UK on March 18, 2013.
Hammer, Icon Film Distribution and Lionsgate have called it "a major event in British film history." Details of the release, including the extras, are included below.
The set will contain two versions of the feature (seamlessly branched on the Blu-ray): the 2007 BFI restoration plus the 2012 Hammer restoration, which adds additional footage lost for decades.
The additional footage comprises two of the scenes that were originally censored by the BBFC in 1958 that have now been restored to the film from reels found in Japan: Dracula's seduction of Mina, and Dracula's sunlight disintegration.
- 1/15/2013
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
The British gangster genre is not one which I have ever afforded much time. Whilst Hollywood has led the way in regards to gangster movies with classics such as The Godfather Trilogy, Goodfellas (1990) and Casino (1995), the UK has conjured up Guy Ritchie - a director of such dire ineptitude as to have single-handedly destroyed the genre by steeping his films in a world of pantomime villains and wholly insufferable "cockney geezers".
On watching John Boulton’s original Brighton Rock (1947), the level of the genre’s decline was made even more apparent. The film follows Pinkie Brown (Richard Attenborough), a young gangster running a protection racket at a race course in Brighton.
After he and his gang have a rival mobster murdered to look like a suicide, a local woman named Ida (Hermione Baddeley) becomes suspicious and sets out to discover the truth behind the man's death. On meeting a young...
On watching John Boulton’s original Brighton Rock (1947), the level of the genre’s decline was made even more apparent. The film follows Pinkie Brown (Richard Attenborough), a young gangster running a protection racket at a race course in Brighton.
After he and his gang have a rival mobster murdered to look like a suicide, a local woman named Ida (Hermione Baddeley) becomes suspicious and sets out to discover the truth behind the man's death. On meeting a young...
- 3/1/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
John Boulting’s seminal crime picture Brighton Rock is still regarded by many as one of the greatest British films of the post-war period, distinguished as a full-on, abrasive noir that lacks the stereotypical sheen and austerity of fare made on our shores. Rather, it is a hard-nosed meditation on life, love, and faith that has enjoyed a surprising endurance in the 60-plus years since its release. Recently brought back into the cultural consciousness with Rowan Joffe’s well-made if bloated remake, this is an incredibly opportune time to revisit the original, which finds its way to Blu-Ray this week.
Pinkie Brown (Richard Attenborough) is the violent leader of a gang, who murders a pestering newspaper reporter on a Brighton pier. However, tied to his crime and capable of proving his guilt is Plain Jane waitress Rose (Carol Marsh), and so Pinkie takes it upon himself to ensnare her in his charms,...
Pinkie Brown (Richard Attenborough) is the violent leader of a gang, who murders a pestering newspaper reporter on a Brighton pier. However, tied to his crime and capable of proving his guilt is Plain Jane waitress Rose (Carol Marsh), and so Pinkie takes it upon himself to ensnare her in his charms,...
- 2/28/2011
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
In the last line of our pan of the Brighton Rock remake, we advised that instead of paying to see it you should “save your money and buy the forthcoming Blu-ray transfer of the original instead”. And now that the exciting release of the John Boulting directed adaptation of Graham Greene’s murder thriller is but just 7 days away, we have teamed up with Optimum Releasing to give away 3 copies of the Blu-ray.
Brighton Rock stars Richard Attenborough (The Great Escape, Jurassic Park, Elizabeth) in perhaps his most iconic onscreen role as Pinkie: a small time hoodlum running a protection racket at a Brighton racecourse. Following the murder of a visiting journalist, Pinkie becomes involved with Rose (Carol Marsh) a café waitress and potentially dangerous witness. Marrying her seems to ensure her silence, but events escalate and eventually lead to Pinky’s undoing and a thrilling and memorable climax.
Also...
Brighton Rock stars Richard Attenborough (The Great Escape, Jurassic Park, Elizabeth) in perhaps his most iconic onscreen role as Pinkie: a small time hoodlum running a protection racket at a Brighton racecourse. Following the murder of a visiting journalist, Pinkie becomes involved with Rose (Carol Marsh) a café waitress and potentially dangerous witness. Marrying her seems to ensure her silence, but events escalate and eventually lead to Pinky’s undoing and a thrilling and memorable climax.
Also...
- 2/21/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
Optimum Releasing have given us three copies of their remastered 1947 version of Brighton Rock to give away. The movie is released on both DVD and Blu-ray on 28th February and stars Richard Attenborough, Hermoine Baddeley, Carol Marsh, William Hartnell & Wylie Watson.
Brighton Rock stars Richard Attenborough (The Great Escape, Jurassic Park, Elizabeth) in perhaps his most iconic onscreen role as Pinkie: a small time hoodlum running a protection racket at a Brighton racecourse. Following the murder of a visiting journalist, Pinkie becomes involved with Rose (Carol Marsh) a café waitress and potentially dangerous witness. Marrying her seems to ensure her silence, but events escalate and eventually lead to Pinky’s undoing and a thrilling and memorable climax.
Also starring Hermoine Baddeley and William Hartnell (the first Dr Who), the film was adapted for the screen by Greene himself – who famously changed his own ending.
DVD & Blu-ray Extras: Interview with Rowan Joffe...
Brighton Rock stars Richard Attenborough (The Great Escape, Jurassic Park, Elizabeth) in perhaps his most iconic onscreen role as Pinkie: a small time hoodlum running a protection racket at a Brighton racecourse. Following the murder of a visiting journalist, Pinkie becomes involved with Rose (Carol Marsh) a café waitress and potentially dangerous witness. Marrying her seems to ensure her silence, but events escalate and eventually lead to Pinky’s undoing and a thrilling and memorable climax.
Also starring Hermoine Baddeley and William Hartnell (the first Dr Who), the film was adapted for the screen by Greene himself – who famously changed his own ending.
DVD & Blu-ray Extras: Interview with Rowan Joffe...
- 2/20/2011
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
While a newspaper headline reveals the death of gang member William Kite, our attention is soon turned to the arrival in Brighton of one overtly nervous tabloid rep, Kolley Kibber, known to the local mob as Fred Hale (Alan Wheatley). Soon on the run from them, Hale allows the story to show us a fantastic view of 1940s Brighton as he hares through the Lanes and main streets to end up on Palace Pier.
So unwraps the story of Pinkie Brown (Richard Attenborough) and his hoodlum friends.
Attenborough’s performance from his first appearance is of an Ocd-driven, young Catholic gang leader, brooding, demanding and anxious – an odd portrayal for a figure in Pinkie’s position of power. Nevertheless, it’s this devious anxiety that shows him as cold and calculating. But it’s when he meets wide-eyed café waitress Rose (Carol Marsh) that he opens up a little, albeit...
So unwraps the story of Pinkie Brown (Richard Attenborough) and his hoodlum friends.
Attenborough’s performance from his first appearance is of an Ocd-driven, young Catholic gang leader, brooding, demanding and anxious – an odd portrayal for a figure in Pinkie’s position of power. Nevertheless, it’s this devious anxiety that shows him as cold and calculating. But it’s when he meets wide-eyed café waitress Rose (Carol Marsh) that he opens up a little, albeit...
- 2/8/2011
- Shadowlocked
British actress Carol Marsh starred in the title role of Dallas Bowers’ 1949 screen adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, acting opposite puppets performing the roles of Wonderland’s colorful denizens. She was also featured as Lucy, Christopher Lee’s ill-fated victim, in the 1958 Hammer horror classic Horror of Dracula directed by Terence Fisher.
Marsh was born in Southgate, London, England, on May 10, 1926. She studied drama at the Academy of Music and trained with the J. Arthur Rank Company of Youth. She appeared on stage in repertory before winning the role of Rose Brown in the British film noir classic Brighton Rock with Richard Attenborough in 1947. She was also seen in the film Helter Skelter (1949), and was featured as Fan Scrooge, Ebenezer’s sister, in 1951’s Scrooge (aka A Christmas Carol) starring Alastair Sim. She continued to appear in films and television productions until largely retiring in the 1960s.
Marsh was born in Southgate, London, England, on May 10, 1926. She studied drama at the Academy of Music and trained with the J. Arthur Rank Company of Youth. She appeared on stage in repertory before winning the role of Rose Brown in the British film noir classic Brighton Rock with Richard Attenborough in 1947. She was also seen in the film Helter Skelter (1949), and was featured as Fan Scrooge, Ebenezer’s sister, in 1951’s Scrooge (aka A Christmas Carol) starring Alastair Sim. She continued to appear in films and television productions until largely retiring in the 1960s.
- 3/24/2010
- by Jesse
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Actress Carol Marsh has died at age 80. Marsh's screen career was rather limited, but she did have major roles in several pivotal British film classics. She gained her first big break by winning the female lead role opposite Richard Attenborough in the 1947 crime classic Brighton Rock (aka Young Scarface). She played an impressionable young woman who has the misfortune of falling in love and marrying a ruthless young gang leader. She also played the key role of Lucy in the 1958 Hammer Films version of Dracula (aka Horror of Dracula) opposite Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Marsh played the title role in the 1949 version of Alice in Wonderland. She also appeared in the classic Alastair Sim version of A Christmas Carol (aka Scrooge). Marsh had not made a feature film since 1959 but did continue to act on British television until the mid 1970s. (Click here for Cinema Retro's coverage of a...
- 3/18/2010
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Helen Mirren and Pete Postlewaite will star in Rowan Joffe's "Brighton Rock." They join Sam Riley and Andrea Risenborough. A remake of the 1947 film based on the novel written by Graham Greene which tells of a young gangster who marries a waitress in order to keep her quiet after she witnesses him committing a murder. The 1947 film starred Richard Attenborough and Carol Marsh. Filming is said to start this October with a $10 million budget.
- 8/30/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Reported by Variety.com this week, 64 year-old Oscar winning actress Helen Mirren has signed on to star in a second adaptation of author Graham Greene's 1938 novel "Brighton Rock." Yeah....we're sorry if the headline was a little misleading.Set to co-star Pete Postlethwaite ("The Usual Suspects," "Alien 3"), "Rock" was previously adapted for the screen in 1947, featuring Richard Attenborough and Carol Marsh in the tale of a gangster who marries a waitress after she witnesses him commit murder. According to Variety, ...
- 8/28/2009
- by By Actress Archives
Helen Mirren and Pete Postlethwaite have joined the cast of director.s Rowan Joffe's "Brighton Rock." The two actors join the previously cast Sam Riley and Andrea Riseborough. The film is an adaptation of Graham Greene's classic novel "Brighton Rock," about a young gangster who marries a waitress who has witnessed a murder he has committed to keep her quiet. Greene's novel was previously adapted into a film in 1947. Richard Attenborough and Carol Marsh starred in that version which was directed by John Boulting.According to Variety, the new project will go back to the original source material rather than film for its inspiration. It will now be set in 1964 rather than the book's original setting of 1939. U.K. distributor...
- 8/27/2009
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
Former James Bond girls and Hammer stars Caroline Munro and Martine Beswicke reunited at Bray Studios
If you couldn't be at Bray Studios' historic Hammer Horror reunion last weekend, Cinema Retro's man on the scene Adrian Smith gives you the low-down:
On August 4, over 150 fans and many Hammer stars and personnel gathered at Bray Studios on the banks of the River Thames to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the release of The Curse of Frankenstein. Amongst the guests were writer-director Jimmy Sangster, director John Hough, Margaret Robinson, the widow of art director Bernard Robinson, and actors Virginia Wetherell, Madeline Smith, Ingrid Pitt, Janina Faye, Vera Day, Caroline Munro, Martine Beswicke, Carol Marsh, Yvonne Monlaur, Valerie Leon, Douglas Wilmer, Damien Thomas, John Cater and Edward de Souza. It was the first time for many of the fans in attendance that they had been able to visit Bray, the spiritual home of Hammer films.
- 8/10/2007
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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