The Good Die Young

The Good Die Young - 1954 | 98mins | Crime, Drama, Thriller | B&W

The Production Team

Director: Lewis Gilbert.
Producer: Jack Clayton
Script: Lewis Gilbert and Vernon Harris. (from the novel by Richard Macaulay)
Cinematographer: Jack Asher
Editing: Ralph Kemplen
Art Direction: Bernard Robinson
Sound: Stanley Hawkes, Red Law and Bert Ross.
Costume Design: Rahvis.
Makeup Department: David Aylott and Joan Carpenter.
Original Music: Georges Auric.
Musical Direction: Lambert Williamson.

The Cast

Laurence Harvey - Miles "Rave" Ravenscourt
Gloria Grahame - Denise
Richard Basehart - Joe
Joan Collins - Mary
John Ireland - Eddie
René Ray - Angela
Stanley Baker - Mike
Margaret Leighton - Eve Ravenscourt
Robert Morley - Sir Francis Ravenscourt
Freda Jackson - Mrs. Freeman
James Kenney - David
Susan Shaw - Doris
Lee Patterson - Tod Maslin
Sandra Dorne - Girl
Leslie Dwyer - Stookey
Walter Hudd - Dr. Reed

Plot Synopsis

The Good Die Young is an outstanding British noir thriller directed by Lewis Gilbert, and starring a strong cast of British and American actors.

Laurence Harvey plays Miles Ravenscourt, a playboy-cum-spiv whose wife refuses to pick up any more of his bills and gambling debts. Harvey persuades two luckless former GIs Joe (Richard Basehart), Eddie (John Ireland) and retired-boxer Mike (Stanley Baker) to help him pull off a mail van robbery, only to then turn against the robbers in murderous fashion. The two ex-GI’s are all down on their luck an in need of money; Joe wishes to take his wife to America; ex-boxer Mike finds himself unable to find work; Eddie has left his cheating wife. The impressive cast includes Gloria Grahame (as Ireland's unfaithful wife) and Joan Collins as a young mum-to-be.