Gangster No. 1 (2000)

06/09/2000Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime1h 43m
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Overview

An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk and who joined Freddie's gang—a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.

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    Paul Bettany

    Younger Gangster

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    Malcolm McDowell

    Gangster 55

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    David Thewlis

    Freddie Mays

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    Jamie Foreman

    Lenny Taylor

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    Saffron Burrows

    Karen

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    Kenneth Cranham

    Tommy

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    Eddie Marsan

    Eddie Miller

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    Andrew Lincoln

    Maxie King

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    Doug Allen

    Mad John

**It's not a movie for everyone, it's extremely violent and tense, but it works very well.** It's not easy to make a good gangster movie. Sometimes it feels like they've done everything that could possibly be appealing or challenging, and that each new production is limited to chewing on and revisiting what's already been done by others, usually better. This film, set in London, brings us into a universe of violence and tension, of envy and madness, which is refreshingly dark and appealing, yet not really new. The screenplay follows the criminal path of a British mobster whose name is ne...