ONCE UPON A TIME IN LONDON (18)

WHO’S IN IT?

Leo Gregory (Green Street), Terry Stone (Rise of the Footsoldier), Holly Earl (Dracula: The Dark Prince), Andy Beckwith (The Infiltrator), Josh Myers (I Am Soldier), Nadia Forde (film debut), Doug Allen (Gangster No. 1), Laura Carter (Dead Ringer), Jamie O’Hara (film debut), J.J. Hamblett (Tango One), Joe Egan (Deadtime), Roland Manookian (RocknRolla), Geoff Bell (Kingsman: The Secret Service), Jamie Foreman (Layer Cake), Dominic Keating (Beowulf), Michael McKell (Acts of Godfrey), Kate Braithwaite (The Callback Queen), Theo Devaney (A Christmas Prince), Justin Salinger (Enduring Love)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Simon Rumley (The Living and the Dead), director, writer; Terry Stone (film debut), writer, producer; Will Gilbey (Plastic), writer; Richard Turner (The Messanger), producer; Richard Chester (Shadows in the Sun), composer; Milton Kam (The Tournament), cinematographer; Tom Parsons (film debut), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

London gangsters Billy Hill (Gregory) and Jack “Spot” Comer (Stone) build a nationwide criminal empire and rule over it with violence and manipulation, which lasts for decades and paves the way for future gangsters such as the Krays…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Witness the violent rise and fall of London’s most notorious gangsters in a film that documents their vast criminal enterprise that lasted for decades.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 19TH APRIL 2019

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