Spicer errs by leaving one card under the tablecloth in a restaurant, creating a risk that the waitress would be able to identify Spicer. To establish an alibi for himself, Pinkie sends one of his gang members, Spicer, to distribute Fred's 'Kolley Kibber' cards throughout the town, making it look like Fred was going about his business normally. The police think that Fred's death is a heart attack or suicide, but Ida suspects foul play and begins her own amateur investigation. Ida takes a liking to Fred and notes that he appears to be afraid. While Fred is attempting to elude the gang, he meets brassy, outgoing Ida Arnold, a middle-aged entertainer currently appearing in a local show. They confront Fred in a local pub, threaten him, and pursue him through the crowded resort town before Pinkie finally murders Fred on an amusement ride. Pinkie and the gang hold Fred responsible for Kite's death. Fred will play 'Kolley Kibber', leaving cards around town that can be redeemed for a monetary prize, with a larger prize for the first person who publicly identifies Fred as Kolley Kibber. Kite's old gang, now led by the psychopathic teenaged hoodlum Pinkie Brown, learns that the reporter who wrote the story, Fred Hale, will be in town for one day for a promotional stunt (similar to the real-life ' Lobby Lud' promotion). In Brighton in 1935, a gangster named Kite is found dead, shortly after a newspaper published a story exposing local rackets and gang wars. The title comes from the old-fashioned candy ' a stick of rock': Ida in the film says that like Brighton rock she doesn't change-as the name Brighton stays written the whole way through.

The film was adapted from the 1938 novel Brighton Rock by Graham Greene, and was produced by Roy Boulting through the Boulting brothers' production company Charter Film Productions. is a 1948 British gangster film noir directed by John Boulting and starring Richard Attenborough as violent gang leader Pinkie Brown (reprising his West End role of three years earlier), Rose Brown ( Carol Marsh) as the innocent girl he marries, and Ida Arnold ( Hermione Baddeley) as an amateur sleuth investigating a murder he committed.

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