@365275 MrRobertJameson True in a way but then all criminals are bad/failed actors. Burton's portrayal of what is fairly obviously one of the Krays - emotionally crippled, closet S/M gay, mother obsessed, crypto-Italian in fact - is fucking spot-on. Astonished you don't get it. Read Iain Sinclair's London masterpiece Lights Out For The Territory, specifically chapter The Dog and the Dish. The you might see the point. The Long Friday was a good update too.
A great film - and surely one of the inspirations for The Sweeney. The last (I think) time it was shown on British TV, it was interrupted by a news flash to say that the (first) Gulf War had just started ! Shows you how long ago it was that British TV showed decent films... It's also notable that the whole feel of it is so different from how it would have been had it been made just 2 or 3 years earlier in the late 1960s.
I have watched this film a few times, find it very amusing because Richard Burton and T P McKenna are supposed to be london gangsters and i one has a welsh accent and one an irish and Ian McShane plays a Jewish Character who speaks with a very broad northern accent. Still it does pass the test of time and Ian McShane looks very attractive
Dreadful acting from Burton in the final scene and also from 1:03:14 to 1:03:20.
But it was interesting to see the film again, I saw it 20 years ago as a child.
As I could only remember a couple of scenes, my expectations of the film were based on what I had recently read about it online so I was expecting it to be terrible.
Instead, I was pleasantly surprised.
It's not a classic by any means but its still watchable.
Bleedin' pigeons.! Priceless.This is a great picture.In the Get Carter\Long Good Friday class and The Criminal is even better.Lovely old Jags Triumphs and Rovers too.Pity all the Nicol Williamson films seem to be out of circulation.Did I understand correctly that you're going to upload "The Reckoning"?
woo hoo - i love how they included battersea powerstation a few times!
ismaelkhan 1 week ago
@365275 MrRobertJameson True in a way but then all criminals are bad/failed actors. Burton's portrayal of what is fairly obviously one of the Krays - emotionally crippled, closet S/M gay, mother obsessed, crypto-Italian in fact - is fucking spot-on. Astonished you don't get it. Read Iain Sinclair's London masterpiece Lights Out For The Territory, specifically chapter The Dog and the Dish. The you might see the point. The Long Friday was a good update too.
julesandsands 2 weeks ago
A great film - and surely one of the inspirations for The Sweeney. The last (I think) time it was shown on British TV, it was interrupted by a news flash to say that the (first) Gulf War had just started ! Shows you how long ago it was that British TV showed decent films... It's also notable that the whole feel of it is so different from how it would have been had it been made just 2 or 3 years earlier in the late 1960s.
365275 2 months ago
@365275 This film is a badly acted piece of fucking crap.
MrRobertJameson 1 month ago
I have watched this film a few times, find it very amusing because Richard Burton and T P McKenna are supposed to be london gangsters and i one has a welsh accent and one an irish and Ian McShane plays a Jewish Character who speaks with a very broad northern accent. Still it does pass the test of time and Ian McShane looks very attractive
tracycolmar50 3 months ago
Richard Burton's most challenging role to date
saanzacs 6 months ago
Thank you for the very entertaining movie. Thumbs up.
o2me2 6 months ago
Thanks for this. I had it on tape for years but lost the tape and now i can watch it again.
I noticed you do requests!!!
Do you have in your catalogue a film called Freelance with Ian Mcshane & Alan Lake or The Assasin i think its called with Ian Hendry?
007steed 6 months ago
Dreadful acting from Burton in the final scene and also from 1:03:14 to 1:03:20.
But it was interesting to see the film again, I saw it 20 years ago as a child.
As I could only remember a couple of scenes, my expectations of the film were based on what I had recently read about it online so I was expecting it to be terrible.
Instead, I was pleasantly surprised.
It's not a classic by any means but its still watchable.
dcasey77 7 months ago
Burtons accent is.. erm.. interesting..
Lytton333 7 months ago 2
Took me a while to get used to Burton's accent but his great acting pulls it off.
Nothing glamorous just sordid reality.
devonlongbow 7 months ago
Bleedin' pigeons.! Priceless.This is a great picture.In the Get Carter\Long Good Friday class and The Criminal is even better.Lovely old Jags Triumphs and Rovers too.Pity all the Nicol Williamson films seem to be out of circulation.Did I understand correctly that you're going to upload "The Reckoning"?
jhassett2 9 months ago