The Good Die Young

The Good Die Young
US 1955 cinema poster
Directed by	Lewis Gilbert
Produced by	John Woolf
Screenplay by	Vernon Harris Lewis Gilbert
Based on	The Good Die Young by Richard Macauley
Starring	Laurence Harvey Gloria Grahame Richard Basehart Joan Collins John Ireland Rene Ray Stanley Baker Margaret Leighton
Music by	Georges Auric
Cinematography	Jack Asher
Edited by	Ralph Kemplen
Production company	Remus Films
Distributed by	IFD (UK) United Artists (US)
Release date	2 March 1954 (1954-03-02) (UK) 29 November 1955 (1955-11-29) (US)
Running time	94 min.
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Good Die Young is a 1954 British film noir crime thriller film made by Remus Films, 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.

The cast includes Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, Joan Collins, Stanley Baker and Richard Basehart.

The film opens with four men 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, in love with his wife (Rene Ray) but injured and unable to find a job. 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 (Freda Jackson). Eddie (John Ireland) is an AWOL American airman with an unfaithful actress wife (Gloria Grahame). The last man, 'Rave' Ravenscourt (Laurence Harvey), is a 'gentleman' sponger and a scoundrel with gambling debts and the unscrupulous leader who lures the other three. The film reaches a bloody climax at Heathrow Airport.

The film was shot on location in London and at Shepperton Studios, with other scenes of BOAC Boeing Stratocruiser aircraft at Heathrow Airport and the District Line around Barbican. Laurence Harvey subsequently married Margaret Leighton, who played his wife in the film.