Brighton Rock

A remake of Graham Greene's classic novel about a small-town hood who marries a waitress who witnessed him murdering a rival thug in order to keep her quiet. As his gang begins to doubt his abilities, the man becomes more desperate and violent. Whilst Mods and Rockers fight on the Brighton beaches in 1964 Pinkie Brown, member of Spicer's gang, aims to wipe out his boss and take over the town from rival mobster Colleoni. Prior to the murder of Fred, one of Colleoni's men, naive waitress Rose Wilson had unfortunately been photographed with Fred. Pinkie marries Rose to keep her quiet but Ida, Rose's employer and a friend of Fred, has her suspicions and makes it her business to save Rose from Pinkie's clutches.

This is a fantastic thriller. What makes it so good is the character Pinkie, he has all the aspects of a good thriller; Violence, Darkness, Anger, Suspenseful, resourceful etc...

A brilliant scene from the film is when Pinkie asks Rose out on a date and she accepts. Suddenly he pulls out a gun but it turns out that it was a different scene from their date, were Pinkie is using a toy gun to win her a prize at the fair. What makes this scene so good is that when he pulled out the gun, it was as if he was pointing it at her, leaving the viewers in a great deal of suspense.

Another scene is right at the end of the film. We see Rose in a care home of some sort after the death of Pinkie. Earlier on in the film, she asked him to make a record of him telling her how much she loves him. However, Pinkie knows that Rose does not have a record player so he tells her how much he despises her instead. Now at the end, Rose is desperate to hear Pinkie's voice one more time so she borrows a record player and plays his record for the first time. This leaves the audience in shock and worry for her because Rose is already in an awful state. The recording starts and says, "You asked me to make a record of my voice, well hear it is. What you want me to say is I love you". Then the rest of the recording is ruined and all she can hear is him saying "I love you" over and over again. Then the camera zooms on to the crucifix above her. Almost saying that God saved her from anymore depression.