MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

John Mackenzie's masterfully directed British crime drama features a star-making performance by Bob Hoskins as Harold Shand, a successful London gangster whose world falls apart over the course of one weekend. Shand controls the London docks and is planning a big real estate deal, financed by money from the American mob and given the okay by the London organization. His world is sweet -- he lives in a fancy penthouse, he owns a yacht, and has a sensitive and intelligent mistress. But suddenly a bomb explodes inside his Rolls Royce, another bomb destroys a pub he owns, and a third is found inside his casino. Shand can't understand who would suddenly want him dead, particularly over the Easter weekend, when representatives from the American mafia are coming into town to discuss investing in Shands's real estate project. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 1
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1 (Alternate Wide Screen)
• Audio: PCM Mono
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Features:
  • • Original British and American theatrical trailers

AWARDS

• Edgar Allan Poe Awards

•     Won Best Screenplay - 1982 (Barrie Keeffe)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Director:

  John MacKenzie

• Producer:

  Barry Hanson

• Screenwriter:

  Barrie Keeffe

• Cinematographer:

  Phil Meheux

• Composer (Music Score):

  Francis Monkman

• Editor:

  Mike Taylor

• Associate Producer:

  Christopher Griffin

• Costume Designer:

  Tudor George

• Sound/Sound Designer:

  David John

• Makeup:

  Freddie Williamson

• First Assistant Director:

  Simon Hinkly

• Stunts:

  Roy Alon

• Casting:

  Simone Reynolds

REVIEW:

• Critics loved this finely detailed gangster film, in which a then little-known British actor and director made their mark in international cinema. Director John MacKenzie had labored without much acclaim in film and television before his deft handling of this wry screenplay by Barrie Keefe. Bob Hoskins was a veteran, versatile actor in stage and screen roles who become better known in the United States for his 1988 lead role opposite a cartoon character in the partially animated spoof Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. In The Long Good Friday, he played a dockyard crime boss whose empire crumbles in a series of mysterious bombings over Easter weekend. Richly plotted and thick with suspense, the film made Hoskins an international star and was one of the finest of many contemporary updates of the classic crime film genre. ~ Michael Betzold, Rovi