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Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but doting mother Violet. As they grow up, Ronnie's violent nature takes over, and Reggie follows his brother's lead. The two become notorious crime lords who rule over the East End club scene. But at the height of their power, the brothers veer into different lives, giving the older crime bosses a chance to reclaim what the Krays took from them.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and contemplative.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- rawmeticulous
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · May 20256/10
Despite the bests efforts of the usually reliable, if hardly versatile, Tom Bell to rescue this pedestrian story of London’s most infamous gangsters, this really doesn’t light any touch papers. Perhaps because neither Martin nor Gary Kemp are much good as actors, nor do either of them exude any sense of menace as this rather tepid biopic trundles along for two hours. “Reggie” (Martin) and gay brother “Ronnie” (Gary) are determined to impress their mother (the underused Billie Whitelaw) with a criminal enterprise that was able to thrive as the city and the country strove to recover from the Second World War. What does work here is the exposure of the sub-culture of criminality that prevailed in what was little better than a lawless East End of London; where protection rackets, prostitution and illicit trading was rampant and where, to some extent, these two men were seen as benevolent influences amongst a community that likened them a little to Robin Hood. Indeed, it’s it’s very clumsy attempts to glamorise the violence with which they ruled the streets that might be it’s redeeming feature. The general population did not recoil from their brutal activities in anything like the fashi
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Cast
- Gary KempRonald Kray
- Martin KempReggie Kray
- Billie WhitelawViolet Kray
- Tom BellJack 'The Hat' McVitie
- Susan FleetwoodRose
- Charlotte CornwellMay
- Kate HardieFrances
- Avis BunnageHelen
- Alfred LynchCharlie Kray Snr
- Gary LoveSteve
Crew
- Peter MedakDirector
- Philip RidleyWriter
- Alex ThomsonDirector of Photography
- Michael KamenOriginal Music Composer
- Martin WalshEditor
- Ray BurdisProducer
- Paul CowanProducer
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