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The Long Good Friday is a 1980 British gangster film directed by John Mackenzie from a screenplay by Barrie Keeffe. Starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren, the film, set in London, weaves together events and concerns of the late 1970s, including mid-level political and police corruption and IRA fund-raising. The supporting cast features Eddie Constantine, Dave King, Bryan Marshall, Derek Thompson, P. H. Moriarty,…
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It is difficult to imagine a gangster film that with a main description of being “prophetic”. When something like that actually happens, results might be extraordinary. One of such events is 1980 British film *The Long Good Friday* directed by John Mackenzie, nowadays hailed as a genre classic. Protagonist, played by Bob Hoskins, is Harold Shands, London gangland boss who has returned from New York, where he had neg…More