The Good Die Young
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Genre: Crime Fiction, Black-and-white, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Year: 1954
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English Language
Starring: Laurence Harvey, Richard Basehart, Stanley Baker, John Ireland, Susan Shaw
The Good Die Young (1954) is a crime thriller made in the United Kingdom by Remus Productions, 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.
Four men are seen in a car apparently about to commit a serious crime. How each of the previously law abiding men came to be in this position is then explored. Mike (Stanley Baker) is an ageing boxer who is injured and unable to find work. Joe (Richard Basehart) is an out-of-work clerk who needs to fly to the United States with his young wife (Joan Collins) to escape her clinging and unstable mother. Rave (Laurence Harvey) is a 'gentleman' sponger and scoundrel with gambling debts, while Eddie (John Ireland) is an airman with an unfaithful wife who has gone AWOL from the US Air Force.
The film was shot on location in London and at Shepperton Studios, there are also scenes of BOAC Boeing Stratocruiser aircraft at Heathrow Airport. Laurence Harvey later married Margaret Leighton who played his wife in the film.
As Richard Macauley's original novel was set in America, the screenwriters had to do considerable modifications to it to
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