The Good Die Young
The Good Die Young 1954 is a crime thriller film made in the United Kingdom by Remus Films, featuring a number of American characters. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert. The screenplay was based on the book of the same name written by Richard Macaulay.
The film opens with four men in a car, apparently about to commit a serious crime. How each of the previously lawabiding men came to be in this position is then explored.Mike Stanley Baker is an ageing boxer, in love with his wife Rene Ray but injured and unable to find a job. Joe Richard Basehart is an outofwork clerk who needs to fly to the United States with his young wife Joan Collins to escape her clinging and unstable mother Freda Jackson. Eddie John Ireland is an AWOL American airman with an unfaithful actress wife Gloria Grahame. The last man, Rave Ravenscourt Laurence Harvey, is a gentleman sponger and a scoundrel with gambling debts and the unscrupulous leader who lures the other three. The film reaches a bloody climax at Heathrow Airport. ........
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