The Long Good Friday (1980) | The Cutting Room
Before he was James Bond, Pierce Brosnan made his film debut here without a word of dialogue, as an IRA hitman. Before she was a Dame, Helen Mirren was the gangster's moll. And in the lead, Bob Hoskins gave the performance that made him.
The Long Good Friday (1980) is one of the great British gangster films, a London crime saga that nearly got carved up and dumped onto television before anyone realised what they had. Luke, Westy and Matt work through the direction, the writing and Hoskins's astonishing wordless final shot, then score it out of 10. They don't make them like this any more…
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