Piece Features: Film and Brighton Rock

piece features: Brighton Rock also boasts lots of quasi-documentary location filming, bringing to mind a contemporary film like Jules Dassin's more resolutely urban The Naked City, according to Rabble. The opening set piece features a chase through Brighton's byways, as the tight-knit gang led by Pinkie Brown Richard Attenborough attempts to corner reporter Fred Hale Alan Wheatley whose expos on rigged slot machines got their former leader killed. The film's formal construction adds considerably to its overall effectiveness The confluence of Harry Waxman's moody monochrome cinematography and Peter Graham Scott's razor-stropped editing ensures the film comes across as exhilaratingly as the amusement park rides that figure in the titular seaside resort. The pursuit ends on a dark ride on the pier, where Pinkie proceeds to push Hale to his death. The one major character introduced later is poignantly impressionable Rose Carol Marsh a waitress at the upscale restaurant that down-market Pinkie patronizes in order to retrieve some potentially incriminating evidence. The sequence isn't just a masterpiece of machine-tooled assemblage, from the stolen street shots to the impressionistic depiction of Hale's demise, but it also succinctly establishes most of the main characters and their interrelations. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.