Brighton Rock (1948)

Richard Attenborough had already played the teenage razor-gang leader Pinkie Brown on the London stage before the Boulting brothers brought Brighton Rock to the screen, and at twenty-four his boyish menace made his name. Graham Greene adapted his own novel with Terence Rattigan, and much of the film was shot on location in a Brighton still recovering from the war. It opens with a title card assuring audiences that this Brighton of gangs and racecourse rackets belonged firmly to the past, a gesture to a town anxious about its image. Its final twist, involving a gramophone record, remains one of the most talked-about endings in British cinema.

A country-of-origin British Quad from the film’s original release, linen-backed. Quads for British films of the late 1940s were printed in small numbers and rarely kept, and this one is exceptionally hard to find.

• Year: 1948
• Nationality: United Kingdom
• Condition: Linen-backed
• Type: Original British Quad
• Size: 30 x 40 inches
• Product Code: P2453