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.

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.

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.

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.

Kirk Douglas visited Gloria Grahame and John Ireland on the set and appeared in the film as an extra as a joke.

[7] In contemporary reviews,The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Director Lewis Gilbert again displays a flair for kaleidoscopic presentation and crowns the poignant and gripping portrait of London life with hair-raising street gun fighting and electric railway track thrills.

Although there is basically a tense dramatic theme, the scrappy treatment, necessitated by the omnibus type of story, robs the film of some of its suspense and values.

"[13] Leslie Halliwell said: "Glum all-star melodrama which set a pattern for such things; worth waiting for is the climactic chase through underground stations.