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Sean Connery plays a West End tough in this Noir masterpiece  Credit: Collection Christophel / Alamy Stock Photo In the golden age of the gangster film – the 1930s to the 1950s – it was all Hollywood, with a bit of French chucked in: Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, George Raft, Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura. The British made occasional attempts – notably Brighton Rock, though that is more a film about religion and, one senses, Pinkie’s repressed homosexuality – but whatever was happening in real life (and there certainly were vicious gangs in Britain), our film industry showed little interest in reflecting it. The censors were a problem, though less censorious than their American counterparts. Perhaps producers assumed that there was no appetite for scenes of brutality and violence: Jack Warner being shot by the minor-league hoodlum Dirk Bogarde in 1950’s The Blue Lamp (still, I believe, one of the finest British films) was about as far as studios or audiences were prepared

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