Brighton Rock Premiere

Leicester Square London was certainly the place to be as the stars were out in force. Sam Riley (Control), Helen Mirren (The Queen) and John Hurt (Alien) were walking the red carpet for the European Premiere of Brighton Rock. Movie-vault.com’s Claire Bueno was delighted to attend grabbing interviews not only Sam, Helen and John but also Craig Parkinson, Andrea Risborough and director Rowan Joffe.

Synopsis
 
Adapted from Graham Greene’s 1931 novel, Screenwriter Rowan Joffe’s debut feature, Brighton Rock charts the headlong fall of Pinkie (Sam Riley) a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager. Pinkie is a desperate youth who is hell bent on clawing his way up through the ranks of organised crime. When a young and very innocent waitress Rose (Andrea Riseborough) stumbles on evidence linking him to a revenge killing, he sets out to seduce her to secure her silence.
 
Ida (Mirren) and Phil Corkery (John Hurt) co-star as two friends who set out to save Rose from Pinkie’s deviant designs. The action has been updated to 1964 Britain, the year the Mod’s and Rocker’s were rioting across the South Coast and in an era of the great British gangster.