Boys in Brown
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Directed by | Montgomery Tully |
Produced by | Antony Darnborough |
Written by | Montgomery Tully |
Based on | play by Reginald Beckwith |
Starring |
Jack Warner Richard Attenborough Dirk Bogarde |
Music by | Doreen Carwithen |
Cinematography |
Cyril Bristow Gordon Lang |
Edited by | James Needs |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Rank Organisation |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Box office | £94,000 (by 1953)[1] |
Boys in Brown is a 1949 British drama film directed by Montgomery Tully. Based on a play by Reginald Beckwith, it depicts life in a borstal for young offenders. It stars Jack Warner, Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde and Jimmy Hanley.[2]
Plot
Teenager Jackie Knowles (Richard Attenborough) drives a getaway car in a robbery. He is captured and sentenced to serve three years in a borstal institution run by a sympathetic governor (Jack Warner). He befriends Alfie (Dirk Bogarde) and Bill (Jimmy Hanley).
Cast
- Jack Warner as Governor
- Richard Attenborough as Jackie Knowles
- Dirk Bogarde as Alfie Rawlins
- Jimmy Hanley as Bill Foster
- Barbara Murray as Kitty Hurst
- Patrick Holt as Tigson
- Andrew Crawford as Casey
- Thora Hird as Mrs. Knowles
- Graham Payn as Plato Cartwright
- Michael Medwin as Alf 'Sparrow' Thompson
- John Blythe as 'Bossy' Phillips
- Alfie Bass as 'Basher' Walker
- Philip Stainton as Principal prison officer
- Ben Williams as Borstal Master
References
- ↑ Andrew Spicer, Sydney Box Manchester Uni Press 2006 p 211
- ↑ Boys in Brown at the Internet Movie Database
External links
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