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Release Date: 1980
Cast: Kevin McNally, Helen Mirren, P. H. Moriarty, Leo Dolan, Stephen John Davies, Pierce Brosnan, Eddie Constantine, Bryan Marshall, Patti Love, Bob Hoskins, Dave King, Paul Freeman ...MORE
Cast: Kevin McNally, Helen Mirren, P. H. Moriarty, Leo Dolan, Stephen John Davies, Pierce Brosnan, Eddie Constantine, Bryan Marshall, Patti Love, Bob Hoskins, Dave King, Paul Freeman, Derek Thompson ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Gangster, Crime Drama, Drama Film, Crime Fiction, Lgbt, Thriller, Crime, Crime Thriller
The Long Good Friday is a British gangster film starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. It was completed in 1979 but, because of release delays, it is generally credited as a 1980 film. It was voted at number 21 in the British Film Institute's list of the top 100 British films of the 20th century, and provided Bob Hoskins with his breakthrough film role.
The film's protagonist is Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins), an old fashioned 1960s-style London gangster who in the late 1970s is aspiring to become a legitimate businessman, albeit with the financial support of the American Mafia, with a plan to... MORE
The Long Good Friday is a British gangster film starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. It was completed in 1979 but, because of release delays, it is generally credited as a 1980 film. It was voted at number 21 in the British Film Institute's list of the top 100 British films of the 20th century, and provided Bob Hoskins with his breakthrough film role.
The film's protagonist is Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins), an old fashioned 1960s-style London gangster who in the late 1970s is aspiring to become a legitimate businessman, albeit with the financial support of the American Mafia, with a plan to redevelop the then-disused London Docklands as a venue for a future Olympic Games. The storyline weaves together events and concerns of the late 1970s, including low-level political and police corruption, Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) gun-running, the displacement of traditional British industry by property development, Britain's membership of the EEC (later the European Union) and the free market economy – the latter was strongly in the ascendant at the time the film was made, in the first year of the Thatcher government.
Harold is the undisputed ruling kingpin of the London LESS
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