The Long Good Friday is a British gangster film starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. It was completed in 1979 but, because of release delays, it is generally credited as a 1980 film. It was voted at number 21 in the British Film Institute's list of the 100 favourite British movies of the 20th century.
The film's protagonist is Harold Shand (played by Bob Hoskins), an old fashioned 1960s-style London gangster who in the late 1970s is aspiring to...
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The Long Good Friday is a British gangster film starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. It was completed in 1979 but, because of release delays, it is generally credited as a 1980 film. It was voted at number 21 in the British Film Institute's list of the 100 favourite British movies of the 20th century.
The film's protagonist is Harold Shand (played by Bob Hoskins), an old fashioned 1960s-style London gangster who in the late 1970s is aspiring to become a legitimate businessman, albeit with the financial support of the American Mafia, with a plan to redevelop the disused London Docklands as a venue for a future Olympic Games. The storyline weaves together the events of the late 1970s, including low-level political and police corruption, Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) gun-running, the displacement of traditional British industry with property development, Britain's membership of the European Union, and the emerging free market economy.
Harold is the undisputed ruling kingpin...
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