The Good Die Young
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Duration Language English | 6.8/10 IMDb Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 2 March 1954 (1954-03-02) (UK)29 November 1955 (1955-11-29) (US) Based on The Good Die Young by Richard Macauley Cast (Miles 'Rave' Ravenscourt), (Denise Blaine), (Joe Halsey), (Mary Halsey), John Ireland (Eddie Blaine), René Ray (Angela Morgan (as Rene Ray))Similar movies The Big Sleep , The Third Man , The Asphalt Jungle , Detour , White Heat , The Night of the Hunter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Good Die Young is a 1954 British film noir crime thriller film made by Remus Films, featuring a number of American characters. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert. The screenplay was based on the book of the same name written by Richard Macaulay.
Contents
- The good die young 1954 stanley baker scene
- The mysterious traveler only the good die young
- Plot
- Production
- References
The cast includes Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, Joan Collins, Stanley Baker and Richard Basehart.
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Plot
The film opens with four men in a car, apparently about to commit a serious crime. How each of the previously law-abiding men came to be in this position is then explored.
Mike (Stanley Baker) is an ageing boxer, in love with his wife (Rene Ray) but injured and unable to find a job. Joe (Richard Basehart) is an out-of-work clerk who needs to fly to the United States with his young wife (Joan Collins) to escape her clinging and unstable mother (Freda Jackson). Eddie (John Ireland) is an AWOL American airman with an unfaithful actress wife (Gloria Grahame). The last man, 'Rave' Ravenscourt (Laurence Harvey), is a 'gentleman' sponger and a scoundrel with gambling debts and the unscrupulous leader who lures the other three. The film reaches a bloody climax at Heathrow Airport.
Production
The film was shot on location in London and at Shepperton Studios, with other scenes of BOAC Boeing Stratocruiser aircraft at Heathrow Airport and the District Line around Barbican. Laurence Harvey subsequently married Margaret Leighton, who played his wife in the film.
The film's screenwriters changed the setting of Richard Macauley's original novel from America to 1950s England. The British bank financing the film also required that the novel's bank robbery be switched to a post office in the film version.
The film opened in the UK on 2 March 1954, with general release following on 5 April.
References
The Good Die Young WikipediaThe Good Die Young IMDb The Good Die Young themoviedb.org