The Long Good Friday

[waynedear]

On film4 22.50 tonight.

[nebpor]

One of my favs. Hoskins finest, soundtrack fantastic

[85Carrera]

Great film. One of my all time favourites.

[vixen1700]

"There's gonna be an eruption"

Cheers for the heads-up, reckon I'll sit up and watch it again.

[Randy Winkman]

Great 1980 film. In 1981 my girlfriend suggested we go and see Friday 13th part two at the pictures and I agreed straight away. I must have sat through at least 10 very confused minutes wondering where Bob Hoskins was because I'd mixed up two entirely different films and thought we had gone to watch the sequel to The Long Good Friday.

[belleair302]

Top gangster film and Helen Mirren was excellent. He was dead right about the docklands!

[Lo-Fi]

The feem choon has been my ring tone for years. My Mrs finally understands where it comes from now. Top film.

"Who's avin a go at me..?"

[KAgantua]

COLINS BIN STABBED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[P5BNij]

I caught the last hour of it last night, a great film and one of my all time favourites. It very nearly didn't get released, it was shot in '79 but didn't go on general release until '81, after George Harrison's Hand Made Films company stepped in.

''A touch of the Dunkirk spirit, know what I mean?''

[vixen1700]

Has an XJ6 ever looked so good in a film?

The stance of it just looks so right.

[popeyewhite]

Razors' buttocks scene still makes me wince.

Oh and that ending. The look on Shand's face when he realises he's done for. Brilliant.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

belleair302 said:

He was dead right about the docklands!

In the 70s and early 80s, there were so many brownfield sites, just wasteland, not only in Docklands, but in places in what is now Chelsea Harbour and Coal Drops Yard. I bought my first flat in London in 1986 for £62K. Thinking back, I probably could have bought about 5 acres or wasteland in Chelsea or Kings Cross for less money. Would be worth hundreds of millions now

[NDA]

Damn, missed it.

I wonder if it's on the C4 app - I'll have a look.

One of my favourite films.


ETA -it is!

[P5BNij]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

belleair302 said:

He was dead right about the docklands!

In the 70s and early 80s, there were so many brownfield sites, just wasteland, not only in Docklands, but in places in what is now Chelsea Harbour and Coal Drops Yard. I bought my first flat in London in 1986 for £62K. Thinking back, I probably could have bought about 5 acres or wasteland in Chelsea or Kings Cross for less money. Would be worth hundreds of millions now

When I worked at Old Oak Common in the early '80s some of the old hand drivers recalled working coal trains down to Chelsea Wharf, on more than one occasion the odd 20ton mineral wagon would end up in the Thames after a rough shunt or two. A now retired mate recalls working a train down there in 1966 and watching some scenes from 'Morgan : A Suitable Case For Treatment' being filmed with David Warner larking about in a gorilla suit! In 1975 an episode of 'The Sweeney' was shot there with Roy Kinnear being chased through the coal yard by Dennis Waterman.

I drive freight trains down the line now and the area is unrecognisable, there's a shiny new station just before the line crosses the river surrounded by apartment blocks, you'd never know there were any sidings there years ago.

I read recently that 'The Long Good Friday' was initially made as A TV film and never meant to be released in cinemas at all.

The Jag definitely looks the part on screen...

[Genuine Barn Find]

The end scene where Bob Hoskins realises he’s not long for this world after being bundled into the back of the car is an acting master class. He’s almost calm by the close. Accepting the inevitable and knowing there is not a single thing he can do about it.

[Genuine Barn Find]

The end scene where Bob Hoskins realises he’s not long for this world after being bundled into the back of the car is an acting master class. He’s almost calm by the close. Accepting the inevitable and knowing there is not a single thing he can do about it.

[vixen1700]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

In the 70s and early 80s, there were so many brownfield sites, just wasteland, not only in Docklands, but in places in what is now Chelsea Harbour and Coal Drops Yard. I bought my first flat in London in 1986 for £62K. Thinking back, I probably could have bought about 5 acres or wasteland in Chelsea or Kings Cross for less money. Would be worth hundreds of millions now

I remember going to the Crass 'anarchy centre' in an old warehouse in Wapping around 1981 when I was 15 and it was like some old bombed out derelict wasteland.

What a difference to now.

[cuprabob]

It's a good film and excellent performances by Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren but it's also notable that Derek Thomson's acting was as bad then as it is now as Charlie in Casualty

[Fundoreen]

Always found it a bit flawed in that some gangsters cant deal with some people that sneak around planting bombs.
Does the criminal underworld have to conform to the Geneva convention or something?
Good film for the nostalgia value I guess.

[Lo-Fi]

Genuine Barn Find said:

The end scene where Bob Hoskins realises he’s not long for this world after being bundled into the back of the car is an acting master class. He’s almost calm by the close. Accepting the inevitable and knowing there is not a single thing he can do about it.

Funny thing about that; a sequel was actually written. Harold escapes and ends up in Jamaica. It just never got made