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It has been 40 years since the release of The Long Good Friday, a gangster film still revered as one of the best British movies of all time. Shot in London in the late 1970s and starring the late Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren, it told the story of an underworld boss trying desperately to stop the IRA from dismantling his empire.
The backdrop for the film was the London Docklands, then mostly undeveloped. With corrupt city planners in his pocket, Hoskins’ character – the pugnacious, barrel-chested Harold Shand – attempts to woo the New York mafia into a partnership to transform the area, selling the idea to them with a speech during a trip up the Thames on his yacht. “Our country is not an island any more,” he snarls. “We’re a leading European state. And I believe this is the decade in which London
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Who would have guessed that the most savage mad-dog frothing gangster in recent movies would be played by Ben Kingsley? Ben Kingsley, who was Gandhi, and the accountant in Schindler s List, and the publisher in Betrayal, and Dr. Watson in Without a Clue. Ben Kingsley, whose previous criminal was the financial wizard Meyer Lansky in Bugsy ? Yes, Ben Kingsley. Or, as his character Don Logan says in Sexy Beast, Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes. Logan spits the words into the face of a retired London gangster named Dove. He s an inch away, spitting like a drill sergeant, his face red with anger, the veins throbbing on his forehead, his body coiled in rage. Dove (Ray Winstone), whose nickname is Gal, lives in a villa on the Costa del Sol in Spain with his wife, Deedee (Amanda Redman), also retired, she from the porn business. He has no desire to return to London to assist in one last job, a bank heist being masterminded by Logan s boss, Teddy (Ian McShane).
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