Word: brighton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brighton police were still baffled yesterday by the disappearance of ten cases of Coca-Cola, 92 bottles of assorted sodas, 87 cans of chocolate syrup, and 37 boxes of popcorn from a concessionaire's booth in the Stadium after the Brown game...
Young Scarface (M.K.D. Distributors], imported from England three years after it was filmed, should have stayed discreetly at home. It starts with an impressive list of credits: an adaptation of Novelist Graham Greene's Brighton Rock, scripted by Greene and Terence Rattigan (see below) for the producing-directing team of John and Roy (Seven Days Till Noon) Boulting. But the film reflects little credit on any of them...
...conflict within the simple waitress who loved him. Except for a single refinement of the book's final irony, the movie treats its characters wholly on the surface. The result looks enough like a second-rate U.S. crime melodrama to make the new title seem an accurate label. Brighton Rock loses its soul when young Scarface becomes just another descendant of Chicago's Scarface...
...getting more popular. But the critics didn't take him seriously. He was too readable; whether he called them "entertainments" or not, his stories were read for sheer pleasure by people who ignored his terrifying glimpses of sin and despair. Even the chilling study of pure evil in Brighton Rock (1938) was written off by one English reviewer as "so much guff." Nevertheless, Brighton Rock was a turning point for Greene. He had discovered that "a Catholic is more capable of evil than anyone...
Originally scheduled to oppose Belmont Hill, the Yardlings filled in with Brighton when the injury-ridden Academy could not appear. Brighton stands as one of the leading powers in the Boston High School Conference, winning three of its four contests...