VCI Entertainment has
selected June 18 as the DVD debut date for writer/director Montgomery Tully’s
1949 film adaptation of Reginald Beckwith’s stage play, Boys in Brown.
This drama about Borstal Prison life
(British for juvenile detention center) is of note for two reasons — the
casting rising Brit stars Dirk Bogarde and Richard Attenborough as the leads
and as a precursor to the uniquely “Kitchen Sink” films that would arrive
during the 1950s and early 60s (notably Look Back in Anger and The
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner).
It’s not quite social realism that defined
the "Kitchen Sink" film movement, but it is damn close and the class distinctions are duly noted.
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