Brighton Rock on Film4 at 5-15 & 6-16.

[Leekbrookgull]

Have a watch if you have never seen it before.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Cheers for the heads up... have it ready to change channel.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Hey, budge over, you've been fixtured!!!

 

[bassking]

thanx, just set to v box it.

 

[generation x]

Cheers haven't seen this for a few years. It's a great classic film. Not like the remake I saw on DVD last week.

 

[brighton terra]

Cheers haven't seen this for a few years. It's a great classic film. Not like the remake I saw on DVD last week.

I thought the recent remake was disappointing; the story didn't translate very well to the 60s and alot of the acting was very wooden. The original film is however a masterpiece; dark, edgy and very atmospheric.

 

[Mackenzie]

My favourite film.

 

[The Peanut Roaster]

This link is worth a look.

Shows location stills from the film with recent(ish) pictures to compare.

Reel Streets

 

[Leekbrookgull]

I thought the recent remake was disappointing; the story didn't translate very well to the 60s and alot of the acting was very wooden. The original film is however a masterpiece; dark, edgy and very atmospheric.

I simply don't think you can ever make a re-make. It just can't be original.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

I thought the recent remake was disappointing; the story didn't translate very well to the 60s and alot of the acting was very wooden. The original film is however a masterpiece; dark, edgy and very atmospheric.

However, both have a dreadful & disgraceful ending compared to the original book, which is THE classic

 

[Albumen]

This link is worth a look.

Shows location stills from the film with recent(ish) pictures to compare.

Reel Streets

I've just lost an hour on this.

 

[Return of the Rev]

 

[brighton_girl87]

Ow I watched the first hour and then fell asleep and woke up to find the film after on instead. I think I will have to get it on dvd.

 

[The Peanut Roaster]

The gateposts at Brighton station as shown in these pics are cannons from the Napoleonic war.

If any other Brightonians, or Historians could shed more light on this it would be great.

 

[Albumen]

Gay history:
Many men were initially drawn to Brighton by the enormous numbers of soldiers garrisoned here during the Napoleonic Wars. In August 1822, George Wilson, a servant from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was accused by a guardsman he had met in the Duke of Wellington public house in Pool Valley of having offered him a sovereign and two shillings to go with him onto the beach to commit an unnatural crime.

 

[The Peanut Roaster]

Gay history:
Many men were initially drawn to Brighton by the enormous numbers of soldiers garrisoned here during the Napoleonic Wars. In August 1822, George Wilson, a servant from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was accused by a guardsman he had met in the Duke of Wellington public house in Pool Valley of having offered him a sovereign and two shillings to go with him onto the beach to commit an unnatural crime.

Any idea where the Garrison was?

 

[R. Slicker]

Any idea where the Garrison was?

Too late now PNut.
all the soldiers have gone. :safeway:

 

[dingodan]

Too late now PNut.
all the soldiers have gone. :safeway:

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Garrison probably Preston barracks.My Dad was in the original film as an extra,I was there during the filming looking after my baby sister.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Any idea where the Garrison was?

The original camp for the soldiers of the Napoleonic War was located in a field called Belle Vue which is now the site of Regency Square. That had been built on by 1822 and I think the barracks moved up to the site were the Prince Regent swimming pool is. Regarding your other questions about cannons, a battery existed throughout much of the 19th century in front of what is now the Grand Hotel, commemorated by the road Cannon Place which runs between the Grand and Metropole Hotels as well as two old streets Cannon Street and Artillery Street that were demolished and lost under the Churchill Square development of the 1960s.