The Long Good Friday (1980)

Synopsis

In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.

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Cast

• Bob Hoskins as Harold Shand
• Helen Mirren as Victoria
• Dave King as Parky
• Bryan Marshall as Harris
• Derek Thompson as Jeff
• Eddie Constantine as Charlie
• Paul Freeman as Colin
• P.H. Moriarty as Razors
• Alan Ford as Jack
• Paul Barber as Erroll

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