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Complex, disturbing noir character study/thriller about a 17 year old baby-faced gang leader named 'Pinky', played by the director-to-be Richard Attenborough in an astonishing performance.
Based on a Graham Greene novel, and co-written by Green and Terrence Rattigan (The Browning Version, The Winslow Boy), Pinky is a tremendously complex character, a sociopath to be sure, but one with a heart still beating somewhere deep down inside. Tortured by his Catholic upbringing, and repressed sexually, he vents his teen angst in violence that becomes increasingly uncontrollable, while finding his heart touched in spite of himself by a girl he marries ostensibly just to keep her from giving evidence against him.
This is a tough picture, no Hollywood softened edges here. And arguably one of the better gangster films ever made.
score 9/10
runamokprods 17 August 2013
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