The Good Die Young

directed by Lewis Gilbert
Category: "Drama"
Year of Release:1954
Date Added:01/17/2024
Date Watched:01/17/2024
Description:Joe (Richard Basehart) is an American in England, trying to get his wife Mary (Joan Collins) away from a manipulative, selfish mother. Eddie (John Ireland) is an American serviceman whose actress wife Denise (Gloria Grahame) is having an affair. Mike (Stanley Baker) is a boxer who lost a hand and can't find a job to support himself and his wife Angela (Rene Ray). And Rave (Laurence Harvey) is a gambler and playboy whose rich wife Eve (Margaret Leighton) refuses to continue giving him money. The four men meet in a bar, and Rave talks the others into stealing money from a post office shipment. They get the money and hide it in a graveyard, but when they are fleeing the cops, Rave kills Mike and Eddie. Joe gets away from him and takes his wife to the airport, but Rave catches up with him, and the two shoot and kill each other.
My Rating:5

Reviews for The Good Die Young

Review - Good Die Young, The

Overblown morality tale full of overacting. And because all four men die and leave their wives alone, it was just depressing. It isn't a story that needed to be told.

Reviewed by Roger on 2024-01-17 17:55:25

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