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A bargain to be sure! Anyone rate the Kemps as Reggie and Ronnie? The British cast surrounding them was great,with the likes of Steven Berkoff,Billie Whitelaw and Tom Bell,but I felt the main characters just weren't menacing enough...
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Roger Daltrey's original idea had Hywel Bennett & the late Gerry Sundquist as Ronnie & Reggie respectively. Now that WOULD have been good. |
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Really? Now that would have been interesting.....
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In Daltrey's script Billy Murray would have played Charlie Kray and Jean Alexander (don't laugh - she was good as Christine Keeler's mom in Scandal) would have been their mother. Tom Bell was also Daltrey's choice for Jack The Hat. He wanted David Hemmings for one of the Richardsons. |
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A far better sounding cast all round,with maybe the exception of Whitelaw not being the Ma Kray part......
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Could have been worse. Could have been Judi Dench. |
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Get Carter is my favourite from that list, but I also rate Villain and The Squeeze too. In fact, I probably like most of the films off that list! I particularly liked the downbeat ending of Sweeney!, which I wasn't expecting! But I do love the bit when they're supposed to be on the job but just end up pissing it up!
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I remember that Antonia Bird's heist thriller FACE, starring Robert Carlyle and Ray Winstone, was a pretty good effort... How many British gangster movies have been directed by women?
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Yeah I enjoyed FACE as well. A fine British cast indeed.
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Long Good friday is my fave, that opening music is so cool, Hoskins as 'arold Shaaand is a fantastic performance, and the fact that everything is going to shit while he's trying to make a deal with the mob is well written, plus any film that has Helen Mirren in is a deal maker for me with the exception of Caligula (utter cack). Get Carter is also on my top, again the opening music on the train get me in the mood for some vintage gangster entertainment. I found the Krays to be quite amaturish, i think the Kemps were slightly missed cast and as someone said not that menacing. Antonia Bird's Face has a fantastic police station shoot out and Robert Carlyle is very good as usual in it. Never seen Villain, but i have had it on my to buy list since it got a release. |
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