Boys In Brown | |
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Directed by | Montgomery Tully |
Written by | Montgomery Tully |
Produced by | Antony Darnborough |
Starring | Jack Warner Richard Attenborough Dirk Bogarde |
Cinematography | Cyril Bristow Gordon Lang |
Edited by | James Needs |
Music by | Doreen Carwithen |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Rank Organisation |
Release date | 1949 |
Running time | 85 min |
Country | UK |
Language | English |
Boys in Brown is a 1949 British drama film directed by Montgomery Tully. Depicting life in a borstal for young offenders, it starred Jack Warner, Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde and Jimmy Hanley.[1]
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).