Is This Bob Hoskins’ Greatest Performance? 

Pierce Brosnan wasn't in the car when they filmed that, their scene was filmed separately

The music was perfect!

He also said he was in holiday in Ireland and an IRA guy said "I wish we were as organised as your film made us out to be".

wasn't it ronnie kray that said that?

Yeah thats really good....

This and Mona Lisa were both brilliant films

To me it is the GFOAT.

@@davechard1143 I wouldn't disagree it's absolutely spellbinding.

I had the pleasure of meeting Mr Hoskins in a coffee shop at Brent Cross shopping centre a few years before he passed!! He was an absolute Gentleman!! One of the Greatest British Gangster Films ever made followed by Sexy Beast (in my opinion). Peace From London. ✌️✌️

D.C Hoskins was sensational. He was a man living in a glamorous bubble and completely deluded about how fast the world was changing around him he couldn't see the wood from the trees. He's cunning, smart, powerful and successful. His delusions about 'running London' in the era of mass immigration and global/domestic terrorism become stronger as hos empire is further threatened. He believed himself to be the big fish in London's small pond, calling it his 'manor.' Not realizing he was now simply one of important fish on a massive ever expanding pond with competition from rival immigrant gangs, and the IRA neutering his capacity to control everything. The IRA start killing his men and he thinks torturing a known drug dealing grass in Brixton will give him answers. A terrorist organisation is threatening his empire and he thinks murdering a few top men will settle the vendetta. We essentially catch a glimpse of an emperor just as his empire is falling, unless he himself accepts the changes around him. He should've negotiated with the IRA, he shouldn't have been so ambitious with a Mafia connection without knowing all was safe. Yet when you're that powerful for that long change can't be accepted, and even at the very end his blase attitude to security sees him easily abducted by his enemies, giving us the greatest non spoken scene/ending ever made.

Show me the way to make money

Same here

totally!!! i found deniros take on capone kinda boring and i love deniro in pretty much every other role he played at that time

Also helped by staggeringly good script which reads even better with time. Great timing from Hoskins. But a truly frightening picture of corruption and evil at all levels of society

on the moov

He was casted terribly in yankland- had charisma & craft

I liked his performance in Roger Rabbit. And his funny man persona in "Brazil" as well. He could do it well. But I agree, it's very sad that American films thought that's what all he's good for.

Don't forget Pennies From Heaven, made for TV before Long Good Friday...

watch Roger Rabbit a little closer. Eddie Valiant was a hard boiled detective who was all business and had a short fuse. Yeah, there were cartoons around him, but he played it straight until the very last scene when he has an "arc" and finds a sense of humor. And hes brilliant in it, so... not sure what the problem is. Yeah, Hollywood tends to typecast...but he was proud of that film.

That film with Cher aswell. Terrible.

That quote was used in Depeche Mode’s Policy of Truth trancentral mix.

Bury St Edmunds is hardly within earshot of the Bow bells !

@@steveluckhurst2350 in the film. He is a londoner.

@@flynnterry9848 I'm absolutely certain that's what you meant. But you are so wrong about him being a Cockney.

He made it in Hollywood, he was appreciated

Never 'underrated'

Jumbo Mills, Del's mate who emigrated to Australia is also in it.

And Charlie from Casualty, Sgt Harper from Sharpe and of course James Bond

Also Terry the chef from Fawlty Towers.

Don't forget Bricktop, Jacko and Beefy from Babylon

Hey, what about Pearce Brosnan (James Bond) right at the end!

good to hear, hope it stood up for you.

I know what you mean! A year on, have you decided yet? I’ve not. Best wishes.

@@robertcottam8824 I guess I have got to watch them both again!

The best soundtrack ever?; I totally disagree; every time I hear it I conjure up a motion picture in my mind of Daley Thompson training ahead of the Olympics on a cold and frosty morning; not appropriate music for a gangster film.

You're gonna know how that feels.'

Barrie Keefe wrote a second screenplay, Black Easter Monday, set 20 years after TLGF. The car is stopped at a roadblock (not unreasonable, given the trepidatious times) and, after the IRA hide their guns, Shand steps out of the car muttering something about an Irish joke. He then flees to the West Indies.

He was. Best Actor in Mona Lisa.

I suspect the reason he didn't get nominated for his performance for "The Long Good Friday" is because the film only got released in the USA in the arthouse cinemas, and the film distributor of it didn't have the financial clout to promote him for the Oscars. However, as mentioned else, he was nominated for Mona Lisa(and won the Best Actor at Cannes) but lost to Paul Newman.

Pity because it's an absolute masterpiece.

So have I. Given up now. Let's keep it to ourselves then.

I refuse to believe that.

The last scene outside the Savoy is the best

​@@Shadowman4710the mafia? I shit em!

Watch it in a double feature with Mona Lisa! Another British gangster classic he shines in.

You do... and you should !

agree with the reply below, definitely watch TLGF and Mona Lisa, Bob Hoskins at his very best.

He's great in Twenty Four Seven it's a shane meadows film too so it's quality he did a cameo in another meadows film A room for Romeo brass he only had a small part but a cracking film anyway and he also appeared in the music video by Jamie T called Sheila you should check it out it's great

@@Tom-uv7ry love the Jamie T video!

Great shout. Would have been a great capone

He was originally supposed to play capote before DePalma chose deniro

@@zacharymorgan9526 yes De Niro decided to play Capone which De Plama paid Bob Hoskins off. Hoskins got paid a great sum of money.

@@ninfilms yea he was paid for his troubles. Any good british gangster flicks from the 50s-90s you could recommend?

@@zacharymorgan9526 Get Carter, Sitting Target, The Squeeze, The Hit, Mona Lisa, Face, Gangster no1 and Sexy Beast.

thanks, much appreciated!

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and Brosnan I suspect this was a very early performance of his

@@stevel9914 yes and Pierce The acting prowess of both Bob and Pierce Just watch the last few minutes of the film - in the car That’s great acting No words - just the facial expressions especially of Bob 👍 👍 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏

He never looked young enough

@@Spectrescup He did in the 1970's

I love Get Carter, like TLGF a tremendous sense of time and place, in the former the North East of slum clearance, shipyards still just hanging on and behind the scenes, the sleazy world personified in John Osborne's rare acting role, not long after the film was released there was a major scandal involving a hugely ambitious local politician, (T Dan Smith), corrupt property developers, which cost a government minister his job (Reginald Maulding). So like TLGF, the film is oddly prescient though in this case based on a novel. Caine gives a superb performance with one major issue, for someone supposedly brought up in the North East, he seems to have totally lost any trace of that distinctive accent, we know Caine is not great with accents, it does not spoil the film but for me, it's there and is not explained. Maybe my late father could have explained it, he once told me when he did his National Service in the 1950's, he spent time with some fellow soldiers from Liverpool, Dad, like me, comes from the outskirts of West London, returning to go on leave one day he asked a guard at a railway station what platform his train was on, 'platform 2, Scouse' the guard replied, so maybe even some time spent away CAN change an accent. So I prefer TLGF, not for the accent issue, it's just closer to home, in my memory and more daring, witness the issues around plans to cut the film for TV. Once again, George Harrison's Handmade films saved the day, along with Monty Python's Life Of Brian and others. The future TLGF was predicting came true and I saw it.

@@grahambuckerfield4640 thanks for such an insightful reply Graham. I do remember watching quite a heavily truncated TV version of the film in the late 80s on ITV. Thankfully I'd already seen the full version beforehand on VHS. I can see why it was problematic at the time. Along with GC, two of the best post war British films ever made. Be well.

Long good Friday is the best.

Underrated by whom?!

I never tire of watching either of these films. Caine and Hoskins on top form with mesmerising soundtracks on both(Roy Budd and Francis Monkman are sadly no longer with us) I really could not separate them-they are both brilliant, multi-layered classics.

Whit! Who framed Roger Rabbit mate...