Brighton Rock is a novel by Graham Greene, published in 1938 and later adapted for film and theatre. The novel is a murder thriller set in 1930s Brighton. The first of Greene's works to explore Catholic themes and moral issues, its treatment of class privilege and the problem of evil is paradoxical and ambivalent.
Adaptations (2)
Brighton Rock has been adapted into 2 films, from 1947 to 2010.
Brighton Rock1947 · film · 92 min · dir. John Boulting · IMDb ↗IMDb7.395%Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.
Brighton Rock2010 · film · 111 min · dir. Rowan Joffe · IMDb ↗Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
