One of the most sinister crime
films ever made in Britain -
Radio Times
~~
Richard Attenborough (1923-2014)and William Hartnell (1908-1975)
appeared together in the original
film version of Graham Greene's
Brighton Rock, shown on Talking
Pictures TV today.
Attenborough played Pinkie Brown
(a role he reprised from the West
End production of the novel, staged
in 1943), whilst Hartnell was Dallow again.
The thriller (an ABPC production)
was made on location in its Sussex setting in 1947, and was known in America as Young Scarface - it was ranked fifteenth in the BFI's Top 100 British Films
poll, then was revived in 2009 for New York's Film Forum. The two leads were
reunited in The Lost People (1949), and Private's Progress (1956).
Co-stars Nigel Stock, Alan Wheatley, and Bill Brandon also had future
Doctor Who roles, whilst a BBC radio treatment followed in 1997, which
starred Steven Mackintosh, Maurice Denham, and Kenneth Cranham.
Released in 2011, the modern remake (co-produced by Studio Canal, BBC
Films and Kudos) featured John Hurt, Andrea Riseborough, Sam Riley,
Helen Mirren, Andy Serkis, and another five Doctor Who cast connections:
- Nonso Anozie (Dallow) was Hydroflax in The Husbands of River Song
- Phil Davis (Spicer) was Lucius Petrus Dextrus in The Fires of Pompeii, and voiced Titus for Big Finish's The Cannibalists (2009)
- Maurice Roeves (Inspector) was Stotz in The Caves of Androzani
- Adrian Schiller (Registrar) was Uncle in The Doctor's Wife, and voiced Zanith for Time Works (2006), and Maurice Le Bon for Fright Motif (2021)
- Steven Robertson (Crab) was Pritchard in Under the Lake and Before the Flood
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