The Krays (1990)
Country: GB
Technical: col 119m
Director: Peter Medak
Cast: Billie Whitelaw, Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Tom Bell, Steven Berkoff
Synopsis:
The story of the Kray twins, jailed for 30 years in 1969, and about to get off for good behaviour at the time the film was made.
Review:
Disquieting, particularly for the makers in the light of this last, and very well put over by cast and crew, this crime drama biopic concentrates on psychology at the expense of a rounded and coherent depiction of events in the career of the Fifties' most notorious British hoodlums. The direction is imaginative, the moments of violence horrendously caught for the time, but the script unfortunately glosses over the Krays' business affairs and police activity is entirely absent. Instead we concentrate on 'the boys', and the very dominating women in their lives. There is a lot on the war and its effects on those who were left on the Home Front; just like a British film not to neglect the socio-political.
Country: GB
Technical: col 119m
Director: Peter Medak
Cast: Billie Whitelaw, Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Tom Bell, Steven Berkoff
Synopsis:
The story of the Kray twins, jailed for 30 years in 1969, and about to get off for good behaviour at the time the film was made.
Review:
Disquieting, particularly for the makers in the light of this last, and very well put over by cast and crew, this crime drama biopic concentrates on psychology at the expense of a rounded and coherent depiction of events in the career of the Fifties' most notorious British hoodlums. The direction is imaginative, the moments of violence horrendously caught for the time, but the script unfortunately glosses over the Krays' business affairs and police activity is entirely absent. Instead we concentrate on 'the boys', and the very dominating women in their lives. There is a lot on the war and its effects on those who were left on the Home Front; just like a British film not to neglect the socio-political.
Country: GB
Technical: col 119m
Director: Peter Medak
Cast: Billie Whitelaw, Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Tom Bell, Steven Berkoff
Synopsis:
The story of the Kray twins, jailed for 30 years in 1969, and about to get off for good behaviour at the time the film was made.
Review:
Disquieting, particularly for the makers in the light of this last, and very well put over by cast and crew, this crime drama biopic concentrates on psychology at the expense of a rounded and coherent depiction of events in the career of the Fifties' most notorious British hoodlums. The direction is imaginative, the moments of violence horrendously caught for the time, but the script unfortunately glosses over the Krays' business affairs and police activity is entirely absent. Instead we concentrate on 'the boys', and the very dominating women in their lives. There is a lot on the war and its effects on those who were left on the Home Front; just like a British film not to neglect the socio-political.