Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
The story
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.
- london
- england
- casino
- england
- gangster
- crime boss
- car bomb
- slaughterhouse
- ira (irish republican army)
- bombing
- neo-noir
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Derek Thompson — Jeff
- Eddie Constantine — Charlie
- Paul Freeman — Colin
- P.H. Moriarty — Razors
- Alan Ford — Jack
- Paul Barber — Erroll
- Karl Howman — David
- Nick Stringer — Billy
- Brian Hall — Alan
- Paul Kember — Ginger
- Patti Love — Carol Benson
- Directed
- John Mackenzie
- Written
- Barrie Keeffe
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 448 ratings
- Studio
- Calendar Productions, Handmade Films, Black Lion Films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
