Boys in Brown

Boys In Brown

Directed by	Montgomery Tully
Produced by	Antony Darnborough
Written by	Montgomery Tully
Based on	play by Reginald Beckwith
Starring	Jack Warner Richard Attenborough Dirk Bogarde
Music by	Doreen Carwithen
Cinematography	Cyril Bristow Gordon Lang
Edited by	James Needs
Production company	Gainsborough Pictures
Distributed by	Rank Organisation
Release dates	1949 (1949)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Box office	£94,000 (by 1953)^[1]

Boys in Brown is a 1949 British drama film directed by Montgomery Tully. Based on a play by Reginald Beckwith, it depicts life in a borstal for young offenders. It stars Jack Warner, Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde and Jimmy Hanley.^[2]

Plot

Teenager Jackie Knowles (Richard Attenborough) drives a getaway car in a robbery. He is captured and sentenced to serve three years in a borstal institution run by a sympathetic governor (Jack Warner). He befriends Alfie (Dirk Bogarde) and Bill (Jimmy Hanley).

Cast

Jack Warner as Governor
Richard Attenborough as Jackie Knowles
Dirk Bogarde as Alfie Rawlins
Jimmy Hanley as Bill Foster
Barbara Murray as Kitty Hurst
Patrick Holt as Tigson
Andrew Crawford as Casey
Thora Hird as Mrs. Knowles
Graham Payn as Plato Cartwright
Michael Medwin as Alf 'Sparrow' Thompson
John Blythe as 'Bossy' Phillips
Alfie Bass as 'Basher' Walker
Philip Stainton as Principal prison officer
Ben Williams as Borstal Master

References

External links

Boys in Brown at BFI Screenonline

Films directed by Montgomery Tully

Murder in Reverse (1945)
Spring Song (1946)
Mrs. Fitzherbert (1947)
Boys in Brown (1949)
A Tale of Five Cities (1951)
Girdle of Gold (1952)
Small Town Story (1953)
36 Hours (1953)
The Diamond (1954)
Five Days (1954)
Devil's Point (1954)
The Glass Cage (1955)
Dial 999 (1955)
The Counterfeit Plan (1957)
No Road Back (1957)
The Key Man (1957)
The Hypnotist (1957)
Man in the Shadow (1957)
The Diplomatic Corpse (1958)
Escapement (1958)
The Strange Awakening (1958)
The Long Knife (1958)
Man with a Gun (1958)
I Only Arsked! (1958)
Man Accused (1959)
The Price of Silence (1959)
Jackpot (1960)
Dead Lucky (1960)
The House in Marsh Road (1960)
Two Wives at One Wedding (1961)
The Third Alibi (1961)
Middle Course (1961)
She Knows Y'Know (1962)
Out of the Fog (1962)
Clash by Night (1963)
Master Spy (1964)
Who Killed the Cat? (1966)
The Terrornauts (1967)
Battle Beneath the Earth (1967)

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