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The Long Good Friday
1979
John Mackenzie's rabidly engaging, complex gangster film concerns a dominant English racketeer, Harold (Bob Hoskins), who is about to change his image and go straight. While negotiating a deal with an American organised crime organisation to develop the barren Docklands section of London, his associates begin to turn up dead, .. Read more
| Starring | Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Dave King, Bryan Marshall |
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| Director | John Mackenzie |
| Genres | Drama |
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The Long Good Friday
John Mackenzie's rabidly engaging, complex gangster film concerns a dominant English racketeer, Harold (Bob Hoskins), who is about to change his image and go straight. While negotiating a deal with an American organised crime organisation to develop the barren Docklands section of London, his associates begin to turn up dead, and the tough businessman realizes that getting out will be more difficult than he had anticipated. This extremely tight thriller made Hoskins a star.
| Starring | Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Dave King, Bryan Marshall, Eddie Constantine, Paul Freeman, derek thompson (pres/narr), derek thompson, Derek Thompson, Pierce Brosnan, Leo Dolan, Kevin McNally, P.H. Moriarty, Dexter Fletcher, Gillian Taylforth |
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| Director | John Mackenzie |
| Studio | ANCHOR BAY HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 49 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 50 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Released | DVD: 10 Jun 2002 Blu-ray: 05 Oct 2009 Production year: 1979 |
| Format | DVD |
The Long Good Friday (1979)
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Bob Hoskins got his big break playing the East End criminal who realises his gang is being ruthlessly picked off by the IRA in this hard-edged crime drama. Owing something to American gangster movies of the 1940s, and rather more to Get Carter and TV crime shows, John Mackenzie's film remains both an explosively violent thriller and a sharp evocation of the enterprise culture of the time (Hoskins's dream is to build a new city in London's docklands with Mafia money). Helen Mirren offers seductive support, while Pierce Brosnan appears as an anonymous IRA hitman.
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Heavily melodramatic stylish updating of Scarface in a London East End setting. A critical success despite vicious detail and IRA plot involvement.
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20 out of 20 people found this review helpful
Frightening, and that's just the music
Bob Hoskins makes Don Corleone look amateurish as he wages his war on gangland London over one long brutal day.
With echoes of the Don, Hoskins looks to make his business legit only to have his aspirations blown up, so to speak, by an invisible force that leaves no clues. As his men turn up dead across the city, Hoskins portrays brilliantly a man gradually realising his empire is coming down. The ferocity of his revenge on just about anyone with a bit of previous is unbelievably powerful yet ultimately he is dealing with forces out of his league, providing the theme of the little man trying to beat all the odds to keep what he has.
Made at a time when Thatcherism appeared on the political scene, Hoskins business aspirations and his entrepreneurship run parallel with his bloodletting. Accompanied by a wild electro synth soundtrack, The Long Good Friday is a great British gangster movie. -
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Absolute Classic
Fantastic stuff.
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John Mackenzie's rabidly engaging, complex gangster film concerns the demise of a dominant English racketeer, Harold (Bob Hoskins), who is about to change his image and go straight. While negotiating ... -
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The Long Good Friday
John Mackenzie's rabidly engaging, complex gangster film concerns a dominant English racketeer, Harold (Bob Hoskins), who is about to change his image and go straight. While negotiating a deal with an American organised crime organisation to develop the barren Docklands section of London, his ...
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