Boys in Brown

Boys in Brown

🎞️ Movie 85 min GB
โ˜… 6.1 /10 1949

Can Bad Boys Make Good?

During post-war England, a young petty crook, Jackie Knowles, is on probation for committing petty crimes. Jackie wants to marry his girlfriend Kitty but they don't have enough money to live on. Jackie foolishly accepts to be the getaway driver for a robbery job. The robbery goes wrong and Jackie is arrested. Because of his previous probation breach, the judge sentences him to three years in a Borstal institution. In the UK, the Borstal institutions are trying to rehabilitate rather than punish young offenders. Jackie Knowles arrives at a Borstal institution run by a sympathetic governor. Initially, Jackie intends to keep his nose clean, do his time and get out. Unfortunatelly, he falls in with a crowd planning to escape. The wrong crowd is run by scheming Welsh boy Alfie Rawlins who senses Jackie's naiveté and innocence. Alfie manipulates Jackie into wanting to join his group by playing on Jackie's anxiety about his girlfriend, Kitty. Alfie lies that Kitty already has forgotten about Jackie and she is seeing another boy, Bill Foster, a former Borstal institution inmate. A paranoid Jackie decides to join Alfie's group and escape. During the escape, Jackie hits a Borstal guard, sending him to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. This could lead to murder charges, if Jackie is captured.

Cast

Jack Warner
Jack Warner
Governor
Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough
Jackie Knowles
Dirk Bogarde
Dirk Bogarde
Alfie Rawlings
Jimmy Hanley
Jimmy Hanley
Bill Foster
Barbara Murray
Barbara Murray
Kitty Hurst
Patrick Holt
Patrick Holt
Tigson
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Andrew Crawford
Casey
Thora Hird
Thora Hird
Mrs. Knowles
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Graham Payn
Plato Cartwright
Michael Medwin
Michael Medwin
Sparrow
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Doreen Carwithen
Composer
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Cyril Bristow
Cinematographer
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Gordon Lang
Cinematographer