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The Long Good Friday

Director John McKenzie's Brit gangster classic remains a benchmark for the (recently much-abused) genre and a high point in the careers of almost everyone who worked on it.

...the actors seem to have had an unusual degree of input - the most memorable scene, the interrogation of upside-down villains, was Hoskins' own idea...

...I have rarely seen a movie character so completely alive. Shand is an evil, cruel, sadistic man. But he's a mass of contradictions, and there are times when we understand him so completely we almost feel affectionate.

Films about corporate bodies linked to crime syndicates are always newsworthy.

...The Long Good Friday features one of Bob Hoskins' best performances, as Harold Shand, the patriotic mobster who's heading for a fall.