The Good Die Young (1954)

Directed by

Lewis Gilbert

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 37 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Four different men in London are struggling with failing marriages and money problems. They meet in a pub and are talked into committing a robbery to fix their lives.

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What happens

The Good Die Young is a 1954 British crime film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, Joan Collins, Stanley Baker, Richard Basehart and John Ireland. It was made by Remus Films from a screenplay by Vernon Harris and Gilbert based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Richard Macaulay. It tells the story of four men in London with no criminal past whose marriages and finances are collapsing and, meeting in a pub, are tempted to redeem their situations by a robbery. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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