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The Long Good Friday

1980 · 114 min

Crime, Drama, Thriller

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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Appeals to viewers who enjoy hard-edged gangster thrillers where ruthless ambition collides with political upheaval and a collapsing criminal empire.

Tone
tense, bleak, frenetic
Payoff
catharsis, vindication
Pacing
relentless
Intensity
intense
Structure
linear
Themes
ambition, organized crime, betrayal, political violence, legitimacy
Setting
late twentieth-century, criminal underworld and redevelopment sites in London

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