By 1938, when author Graham Greene wrote his novel “Brighton Rock” – which was named after the candy – he used the snack as a metaphor for morality. Protagonist Ida – a woman who was ...

There's rock and then there's Brighton Rock, Graham Greene's 1938 novel whose title was inspired by the famous English confection. Greene's interest was twofold and doubly ironic. Rock candy was a ...

Then it would be slowly stretched over 180 yards until the ‘Brighton Rock’ writing only measured a fraction of an inch. The pictured slab of candy would probably make just under 1,000 mouth ...

His Pinkie is a slim, mesmerizing package of immaculate and undiluted evil, clear as a stick of Brighton Rock candy. The film itself - directed and adapted by Rowan Joffe - has its flaws.