Robert Morley as Sir Francis Ravenscourt, Rave's father.Laurence Harvey as Miles 'Rave' Ravenscourt.All four men have died, leaving nobody who knows where the money is hidden. Joe sees Rave arrive and shoots him, but as he falls he shoots Joe. Also there, waiting for Rave, is his wife Eve who has booked them a flight to Nairobi. When Joe is not looking, Rave then kills Eddie but Joe outwits him and escapes.Ĭollecting his wife Mary, he rushes to the airport for a flight to the USA. The three survivors make off with £100,000, sharing some and hiding the rest in a tomb in a churchyard. In fact, to the horror of the others, he opens fire on approaching police and, when Mike tries to surrender, shoots him down as well. He cajoles the other three into a night raid, supplying revolvers for show. Rave has started an affair with a girl who works in a post office that handles consignments of used banknotes. The fourth man is Rave, decorated in the war but now a womaniser and gambler sponging off his rich wife Eve, who wants to take him away to Kenya. Eddie deserts the US Air Force in an effort to regain Denise, his unfaithful actress wife. Joe has been fired from his clerical job in the USA to reclaim Mary, his pregnant English wife, who feels unable to escape her clinging and unstable mother. Mike is an injured ex-boxer unable to find a job and penniless after his wife Angela, who he loves, gives their life savings to her criminal brother. It tells the story of four men in London with no criminal past whose marriages and finances are collapsing and, meeting in a pub, are tempted to redeem their situations by a robbery. It was made by Remus Films from a screenplay based on the novel of the same name by Richard Macaulay. The Good Die Young is a 1954 British crime film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, Joan Collins, Stanley Baker, Richard Basehart and John Ireland.

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