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Legend
Why this pick
Another London-set Kray portrait, but shaped as a sleek, performance-led rise-and-fall crime drama; it keeps the brothers’ volatile bond and the seductive menace beneath their public glamour.
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MOVIE1990 1h 59m GBR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film charts the lives of the Kray twins from childhood to adult life. The plot focuses on the relationship between the twins and their doting mother (Whitelaw). Ronald (Gary Kemp) is the dominant one, influencing his brother Reginald (Martin Kemp) to perform several acts of violence as they rise to power as the leaders of a powerful organised gang in 1960s London.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Gary Kemp
Ronald Kray
Susan Fleetwood
Rose
Charlotte Cornwell
May
Alfred Lynch
Charlie Kray
Gary Love
Steve
Steven Berkoff
George Cornell
Jimmy Jewel
Cannonball Lee
Sadie Frost
Sharon Pellam