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 |
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| Distributed by | Rank Organisation |
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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. Depicting life in a borstal for young offenders, it starred Jack Warner, Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde and Jimmy Hanley.[2]
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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
- ↑ Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Boys in Brown at IMDb
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