The Long Good Friday

1980 PG-13 1h 54m

7.2 / 10 424

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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.

Director John Mackenzie

Writers

Barrie Keeffe

Stars

Bob Hoskins Helen Mirren Dave King

Policeman (uncredited)

Alan Talbot

Snipist (uncredited)

Tony Clarkin

Driver Hitman (uncredited)

Peter McNamara

Young Man in Pub (uncredited)

Jill Goldston

Boat Party Guest (uncredited)

Stephen Davies

Tony

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User Reviews 2

Geronimo1967 28 Apr 2024

7/10

"Harold" (Bob Hoskins) has spent the last ten years building up a business of the back off criminal enterprises and is about to try to go straight with an hude dockside development he hopes to sell on to some Americans. They've arrived in London and he is all set to wine and dine them to seal the deal when things start going quite spectacularly wrong. His best pal "Colin" (Paul Freeman) is killed ...

John Chard 23 May 2019

9/10

It's not about safety, it's about honour. It's the early 1980s, it's Good Friday, and Harold Shand is waiting to entertain some powerful American muscle. He hopes to get them to help fund his dockside development, but someone is murdering his men, and although Harold has a good idea who is responsible, he isn't quite prepared for the events that follow. Plot wise, The Long Good Friday is a...