Who lit the fuse that tore Harold's world apart?
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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Classical in form, grave, earnest and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Bob HoskinsHarold Shand
- Helen MirrenVictoria
- Dave KingParky
- Bryan MarshallHarris
- Derek ThompsonJeff
- Eddie ConstantineCharlie
- Paul FreemanColin
- P.H. MoriartyRazors
- Alan FordJack
- Paul BarberErroll
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- John MackenzieDirector
- Barrie KeeffeWriter
- Phil MeheuxDirector of Photography
- Francis MonkmanOriginal Music Composer
- Mike TaylorEditor
- Barry HansonProducer
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