![]() ![]() The latter preferred motor bikes and dressed like Marlon Brando in The Wild One. The former were middle-class and educated they wore hip clothes and rode motor scooters. But now the novel has been re-made and shifted to 1964, when Brighton and the genteel south coast of England was beset by riots (tame by today’s standards) between Mods and Rockers. The novel was filmed in England in 1947, with a twenty-four-year-old Richard Attenborough giving one of the best performances of his life as the monstrous Pinkie Brown. ![]() The novel is dipped in cruelty, wrapped up in bogus debates over faith and guilt (the Roman kind), and it is about as entertaining as being trapped in a corner by a cobra and feeling you must stare it down to avoid the venomous strike. Graham Greene published his novel Brighton Rock in 1938 and over the years he categorized it as one of his “entertainments.” Nobody should fall for that coyness. ![]()
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