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7.3 (6.8K) Rate. In Brighton in 1935, small-time gang leader Pinkie Brown murders a journalist and later desperately tries to cover his tracks but runs into trouble with the police, a few witnesses, and a rival gang. Director John Boulting Stars Richard Attenborough Hermione Baddeley William Hartnell. 3.
Jan 28, 2014 · A drunken, abusive tavern-keeper's adulterous wife uses the backward son of a rigid, puritanical pharmacist who makes his entire family miserable. Director Robert Hamer Stars Mervyn Johns Mary Merrall Gordon Jackson. 6. Waterloo Road. 1945 1h 16m. 6.5 (691) Rate. A drama set during World War II.
Apr 6, 2016 · Discover the seedier side of 1940s London in this list of 10 British noir films, from comedies to dramas, with a focus on the social and cultural context of the genre. Learn about the directors, actors and themes of these films that capture the mood and style of the post-war era.
British film noir - from 1930s precursors to films influenced by Hollywood ( and France ) , films made by blacklisted emigrees , and the huge amount of second feature , low budget crime films . These crime films culminate in the early to mid sixties with the Edgar Wallace series , plus the Edgar Lustgarten shorts . After that there are individual films that could be described as neo noir .
- It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) Centring on austerity housewife Googie Withers’s divided loyalties between a dull but decent husband and a fugitive ex-lover, Robert Hamer’s bustling but claustrophobically intense Ealing thriller is set in London’s East End.
- Brighton Rock (1947) Graham Greene might have disapproved of the sentimental ending the Boulting brothers devised for this adaptation of his seething crime novel Brighton Rock, but he always eulogised about Richard Attenborough’s vicious performance in the lead.
- The Third Man (1949) Frequently voted the best British film, Carol Reed’s wittily sinister take on Graham Greene’s story about a penicillin racket in postwar Vienna is almost faultless, benefitting in equal measure from the performances of Orson Welles and the exceptional ensemble, Robert Krasker’s photography and Anton Karas’s famous zither score.
- The Blue Lamp (1950) STUDIOCANAL Films Ltd. Fans of the BBC police series Dixon of Dock Green were taken aback when first witnessing the moment of murderous violence that made Dirk Bogarde a star and drives this Ealing procedural thriller.
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In the aftermath of World War II, Britain cultivated its own form of film noir with a distinctly English accent. Marked by fatalistic wit, visual lyricism, and a pronounced concern for working-class lives, British crime dramas reflected an era of turbulent change, as generational and class conflict, the growing racial diversity of the postcolonial era, and ambivalence toward the U.S.’s new ...
