The Long Good Friday

Director:

John Mackenzie

Details:

UK | 1980 | 113 mins | Rated 18

Starring:

Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren and Paul Freeman

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Synopsis

Harold Shand is an East End gangster on the up. An entrepreneurial thug with a beautiful wife, Shand dreams of renovating London’s Docklands, turning into Europe’s capital and the venue of choice for the 1988 Olympics.

In a hands-across-the-water exercise he convinces a powerful American mafia boss to come to London to have a look at the operation and perhaps invest the necessary readies to turn the dream to reality. The mixture of charm and violence employed by Shand to ensure that the meeting goes well unravels when the IRA take an interest in his business operations. This is a classic British gangster film.