The Long Good Friday
Harold, a prosperous English gangster, is about to close a lucrative new deal when bombs start showing up in very inconvenient places. He is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.
1951, Bognor Regis, West Sussex, England, UK
26 April 1940, Islington, London, England, UK
26 July 1945, Chiswick, London, England, UK
1 October 1903, Manchester, England, UK
1948, Guyana
31 July 1943, London, England, UK
1 June 1955, Colchester, England, UK
1948, Dublin, Irish Free State
13 May 1948, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
4 April 1948, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
13 December 1952, Woolwich, London, England, UK
18 March 1951, Liverpool, England, UK
20 November 1937, Brighton, England, UK
19 May 1938, Battersea, London, England, UK
31 January 1966, Enfield, London, England, UK
11 July 1957, London, England, UK
10 August 1948, Torquay, Devon, England, UK
7 July 1941, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
26 April 1955, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
23 February 1938, London, England, UK
25 April 1912, Wandsworth, London, England, UK
June 18, 2015
Hoskins' bullish, black-comic Napoleonism makes this movie: pugnacious, sentimental, a cockney Cagney.
August 19, 2008
In many respects a conventional thriller set in London's underworld, The Long Good Friday is much more densely plotted and intelligently scripted than most such yarns.
June 23, 2015
The simple, almost Shakespearean moral is that nefarious deeds breed a climate of contempt, and that any success will always be tainted.
May 07, 2015
Although The Long Good Friday is firmly rooted in a very different era -- early 1980s Britain is another country entirely -- the film still feels fresh and uncompromisingly tough.
June 21, 2015
Sheer brilliance.
June 15, 2015
Has a shaky, peculiarly British charm that still makes it irresistible.
February 09, 2006
The admittedly well-constructed set pieces are all too often diminished in effect by the uninspired camera-work.
June 18, 2015
Both an explosively violent thriller and a sharp evocation of the enterprise culture of the time.
August 29, 2010
The screw-turning plot is great fodder for Hoskins and Mirren, who expertly calibrate their stressed-out character arcs. [Blu-ray]
August 30, 2004
Though its plot contains much that's new, The Long Good Friday is a swift, sharp-edged gangster story in a classic mold.
March 01, 2014
A conventional Brit thriller that's moderately entertaining.
October 23, 2004
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.
