Favourite British Gangster/crime film

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Get Carter for me.Caine at his best.

[vincenzo]

Yes it's an excellent film. Superb supporting cast and top performances all round.

Roy Budd's score is also a thing of beauty.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Anyone who flings Alf Roberts from a multi storey carpark gets my vote....

[oaxaca]

Alf Roberts haha, thats a blast from the past!

[pedromonkey]

get carter is a very good film but i prefer Long Good Friday, it's an incredibly well made and well written film with an astonishing performance from Bob Hoskins. I like how there are three future tv actors in it, Paul Barber (denzel in Only Fools), Gillian Taylforth (caffy beawl in Eastenders) and Derek Thompson (charlie from Casualty) in a big supporting roll, plus bond himself Pierce Brosnan as the assassin, and who can forget the heavenly charm of Helen Mirren. It's just a fantastic film, with a great late 70s/ early 80s score...

[vincenzo]

Originally Posted by pedromonkey

I like how there are three future tv actors in it, Paul Barber (denzel in Only Fools), Gillian Taylforth (caffy beawl in Eastenders) and Derek Thompson (charlie from Casualty) in a big supporting roll

You can also spot Karl Howman (Brush Strokes) as bent cop Dave King's son, the late Brian Hall (Fawlty Towers) as Hoskins's 2nd right hand man, Dexter Fletcher (Lock, Stock) as one of the kids who guards Hoskins's car, and Daragh O'Malley (Sharpe) as Brosnan's fellow swimming pool assassin.

Quite a cast. Quite a film.

[oaxaca]

Originally Posted by vincenzo

You can also spot Karl Howman (Brush Strokes) as bent cop Dave King's son, the late Brian Hall (Fawlty Towers) as Hoskins's 2nd right hand man, Dexter Fletcher (Lock, Stock) as one of the kids who guards Hoskins's car, and Daragh O'Malley (Sharpe) as Brosnan's fellow swimming pool assassin.

Quite a cast. Quite a film.

I bet you can't name every soap celebrity to have appeared throughout the 4 seasons of The Sweeney huh Vincenzo/Pedro ?? lol that would be a challenge, it was like a pre-soap acting academy that programme... I remember seeing Phil Mitchell (and many others) from Eastenders and Rodney from Emmerdale (playing an aussie if I remember rightly), oh and Hammer-stalwarts Michael Ripper and Patrick Troughton. Also remember seeing Patrick from Eastenders at the start of Hammer's 'The Witches' alongside the legendary Joan Fontaine in a jungle hut in deepest darkest Africa (or maybe Pinewood studios) and Mike Baldwin (corrie) was in Hammer's Pirates of Blood River (or Devil Ship Pirates?) I forget which.

[vincenzo]

I remember spotting Steve McFadden (Phil Mitchell) in Buster.

Rudolph Walker (EastEnders Patrick) was also the black tenant who finally discovers Richard Attenborough's handiwork in the woodshed in 10 Rillington Place.

[pedromonkey]

oh i don't know about that oaxaca, ive never seen the Sweeny.

the was a younger June Brown (dot Cotton) in an episode of the original survivors though along with a really young Roger Lloyd Pack (trigger, only fools) who also appeared in the new bbc version.

[vincenzo]

June Brown also appeared in Straw Dogs as Peter Vaughan's wife (though her scenes were cut and presumably wiped), and as Jill St John's neighbour in Sitting Target. She also played a Ripper victim in Murder By Decree (where her body is discovered by Peter Dean aka Pete Beale).