The KRAY Twins - LEGEND. Why did their criminal empire collapse? Real story 

The only gangsters who make the headlines tend to be the ones who eventually came badly unstuck. I remember one career criminal quoted as saying that crime can indeed pay but you won't see those people making lurid headlines precisely because they are successful at what they do.

"Born on the same day." Pretty sure most, if not all, twins are.

They never came close to "taking over the country" they didn't even run London they were just another coupe of villains like thousands of others they were incredibly violent and unpredictable unpredictable people were wary of them but other firms weren't afraid of them

some lovely footage of good ol London

"Shabby girl"? Emily Browning is stunningly beautiful

Of course I skipped past _Legend_ over and over when it was streaming free, and now it's not free anywhere!

My late mother met Reggie in London and she was surprised to see him and said hello to him and later in evening she knew it was Reggie's pub and everything was free. She used to say it's matter of perspective how you see the world here I'm living in London and now I can understand her words and what she means with her words.

13:14 actually 'the skinny' girl we saw in legend is a perfect depiction of Frances because she had bulimia which was well known amongst many of the Krays associates, Emily was a perfect actress for this role unlike some others who have portrayed her, also what has her weight got to do with her being a wild child?

“These guys came to my double hard hometown but were too scared to get off the train.” - someone, every time a new Kray video is uploaded.

Tom Hardy played both of em. Plus, he also played Charles Bronson. In fact, the real twins met Bronson themselves. Charles described them as The nicest Guys he met

Two things ! First they were not the rulers of the London underworld as you stated. They were the top dogs of their own district within London but there were much bigger better organized gangs operating at that time elsewhere the city. Secondly, Mitchell's love was nothing but a cheap hooker who the Kray's hired to keep him calm whilst he was hiding out from the cops.

Banged up at 36 real successful villains

It's well known that other villains were planning on taking them out because of the heat they was bringing to the underworld

I was around/involved with real crooks my entire youth into my 30's. The i straightened out after my Daughter was born. I can tell you that crooks and gangsters will put up with a lot, but when you gotta start looking over your shoulder for your own bosses because they're loose canon psycos who'll merc you as quick as they will an enemy.....It gets old fast. No one missed these guys when they were gone. Not as Bosses anyway.

Everyone who had any direct or indirect contact with these two thugs seems to have written a book about them. Just like Elvis memoirs I'm waiting for the KRAY COOKBOOK.

Nice photographs 📸 of Merry Old London 🇬🇧

They got the name of the pub wrong in this video where Ronnie shot George Cornell. It was the Blind Beggar pub, not Friar Tuck.

Excellent video 😊

A true villian should never be in spotlight

Billy Hill was right "killing is a mugs game." The Krays paid dearly for it.

watching this the first time totaly in it.... nice work

When I was a nipper, I helped my uncle at a greengrocers in shepherds Bush in London. Reggie kray used to buy his fruit and vegetables in my uncle's shop. I only remember him giving me half a crown or ten shillings every time he came in. I was only about twelve or thirteen.

Saying that the reason they were intense was because they were Irish and gypsy, and that it was an explosive combination.Feels pretty discriminatory against both classes of people

They were two bob muppets made famous by rags like 'the sun'! Everytime they left their two block 'manor' or their Flea pit discos they were told to hop it! And they hopped! 😂

They nowhere near took over the country! They thought they'd have a look at liverpool but were soon told to do one. They couldnt even get a grip on the richardsons manor. Their ego had them having portraits from david bailey, which made the national press. Not because they were the krays but because it was a bailey portrait. Before that, outside london they werent heard of. It was bailey who made the krays.

Monty Python did a brilliant satire of the Krays in their Flying Circus sketch, "The Piranha Brothers".

Excellent documentary . Well presented and with photos and film i have never seen before .

Great documentary well presented, thanks.

I watched one documentary about the Krays where Freddie Foreman claimed that just before the twins went to jail, he and a number of other London gangsters met and decided to kill both Ronnie and Reggie. Foreman claimed the twins had become too unpredictable and reckless so needed to be killed. Before the deed could be done, the Krays were sent to jail making them no longer a problem. I just found it interesting as i wonder if they would have become these legendary british figures and "celebrities" if they were killed back then, would they be remembered or forgotten?. Any thoughts?

I can always pick out the difference in twins, when there is something "off" with one of them. There is definitely something wrong with Ronnie.

Fascinating to watch Ron and Reg looking less and less like each other as they age. Both very good looking chaps when they were young, and very difficult to tell apart! 😮

They used to come to the Dolce Vita nightclub in the 60's here in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Toughest Southerns were no match for the average Geordie. They got chased out of Newcastle for trying to impose themselves

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Monty Python's 'Ethel the Frog' is still the best telling of The Krays' story

Horrible bully's disliked by most

Has this not been milked enough

As is so often the case in real life , success does not come from finding something amazingly clever to do but merely from avoiding doing something totally stupid .

They never almost took over the country 😂

The only good thing I can say is they stood up for each other no matter what happened accentuated by a mothers love for her sons

Most of the stories about the Krays derring do were created bthe Krays and repeated over and over again in their endless books about themselves. They were never major league villains just a couple of bullies

Some of the photos etc shown are strange, 18.39 & 19.11 are not London, they are Chester in the North West of England. Prisoners working in the Swamps, not in the UK, soldiers getting off a military bus was American and some of the facts are wrong.

Straight in with a negative stereotypical slur against Irish and gypsies 🤣🤦‍♂️

Frank Mitchell was sprung from Dartmoor not Broadmoor , but it's still a good video , I just wanted to put that fact right 👍

J, Pyle, total respect. Top Man.

Very good watchable interesting post.

Love ❤ this one very very much ❤ trev Dec singer songwriter ❤rip krays ❤Declan ❤love ❤

It's a truly great movie everyone needs to see this movie.

The consequences of loosing your calm in any situation!!!

as those around them have said they were immature unintelligent ,bullies the opposites of the richardsons who were clever and blended in and survived,,

When they tried to move in on Birmingham, they had their backsides handed to them on a plate by the Fewtrell brothers.

Sections of the movie "Legend" (2015) are shown. It's worth watching.

My friend is a cockney and told me his Krays story. His mum and the Krays apparently had the same milkman. At least it's not as exaggerated as most Krays stories hehe

10:41 that lady is my cousin lol. Shes also in eastenders. She played the part of bar lady in legend. Small world.

Babs Windsor said Reggie wanted her. She said 'he wasn't the kind of guy you turned down.'

didnt do too well when they tried to visit manchester... were met with polite smiles by some of our finest doormen etc and sent back down south with nothing from up north but memories.. :-)

Where the videos at? U been lacking bruh

Both were, nutters..😱

I thought the Richardson were the most powerful gangsters in London.

Difnt Eddie Futrell sop the Ktays getting to Bitmingham (UK) at Watford Gap service station?

Nuthing but respect bro hoap u get justice

Locked up in the Tower of London 😂😂 laughed my stones off

All these clips are from fictional movies about the Krays and most of the stories come from books the Krays or their friends wrote for money. Speak to anyone who was involved in the scene at the time

15:24 Ah, the good old days.

Love them legends ❤❤❤❤

great role models

i read the book and worked with a guy said his dad owned a pub in england and the Kray twins would come in and he was about 6yo .

Came to Piccadilly Manchester train station then the quality street gang turned up and sent them back to Euston London

They were nothing but a couple of toe rags,a fella my dad knew ,used to pay them protection money, you know what business he had ?a jelly deal stall,people make them out as something special, making a man ,pay protection money on a jelly deal stall ,that's like breaking into a house ,for the gas meter money

Only 0:36 seconds in aaannnddd.., I'm already as happy as a dog eating 💩! I started smiling as soon as you said these guys came to a bad end. The icing on this party cake was when you mentioned their downfall came because of their own -- Stu-pid -- mistakes... Now, all I have to do is watch the video hear the details...

He’s a piece of work

"Born on the same day" "Both BENDERS!!!! "

Common sense tells me to not lock up accomplices in the same prison, or at least make sure they have no way of interacting with each other.

I wish they were still here...

What is the Royal Infantry?

Almost took over the UK 😂😂😂 Omg these two barely had control of Bethnal green where they lived.! They were local gangsters nothing like the A team or the hunt syndicate.! The myth about these 2 has been exposed decades ago 💯💯 Do one on david hunt or Terry Adams 💯

Can someone please tell me how do you pronounce the English channel??

In the day they were the top boy's by far

Ronnie only got married because he thought it might help him get parole

The actress Barbara Windsor was married to a member of the Kray Brothers gang. While she was having an affair with Sid James. So Barbara Windsor would have known both of the brothers personally.

Mr. "Ol Blue Eyes". Mr. "Chairman of the Board" did business with the Kray twins? Why am I not surprised?

If this is true about the Krays sleeping with one another has got to absolutely sickening and if true that means that they were both very sick in the head

They defeated themselves by having people around them that had enough of being told what to do and wanted more out the £££ pot...some turned grass and a few were plotting to take the twins out the game...to many talked to the wrong people and when you shoot someone in front of people you can.t trust you seal your own fate...😠😠

The 'empire' didn't exist in the first place. It was tabloid hysteria. There was about 3 or 4 thousand people in their part of the East End of London.They were big fish in a very small pond.The Ricahrdsons were building an empire. The Krays put the fighteners on a few litle corner pubs and the likes and basically collected money each week on the assurance if the payers had any trouvle the twins would send heavies in.They ahd a slice of a snooker hall and nightclub.The yanks came over wanting to wash some money thinking an empire was here. Meyer Lansky was a multi millionaire by the 1950s. Bugsy Siegel had an 8 million pound mansion in Hollywood.But watch the film 'legend' and you'll see these major mafiosa tryinf to appease theKrays. It's bordering on comedy.They were kids who watched gangster films and bullied smaller kids.They got onto a plan to make cash out of that.Cornell , Bindon, Eddie Richardson, Charlie Richardson- all hard men who kept quiet.The Krays wanted to show off like kids in their suits for David Bailey's tabloid photographer contracts. Even Freddie Foreman wanted to put them to sleep until the law did.They spent their priosn life coming up with sad gimmicks like painting and getting married to women for money off the same tacky yabloids. Empoire ? My a*88

Is there not any films on these two Krays brothers?

It's like Romulus and Remus

Even sherlock holmes turned up.

A little judgemental, maybe? "Irish and Gypsy an inflammatory mix", "disgusting discipline". I am no fan of the Krays, but you probably didn't live through those times and if you did you weren't here in the UK. I only saw the end of the Krays from a distance, but remember the way many ordinary people were treated was very disrespectful and so the behaviour of the Krays has to be viewed in this light. Now we seem to have gone too far the other way, we appear to be expected to give respect to everyone.

They were virtually unknown outside the east end.

Ronnie was uncontrollable and had his way.Reggie had to pay for his brother mistakes. Yes they could be the kings off swinging a London.They were very stylish too.

The amount of ad’s on this wtf

David Bailey's dad cheek was sliced by Reggie, for a gambling debt.

Legend is the true story of the kray twins however they did bad things however they were right about Jim fix it back in the late 70s and 80s

I think he claimed to be bisexual and that he was the “active” one. He wasn’t ashamed of it but I think he wanted to be clear that he was “the man” or something.

I see a missed opportunity in the movie with Mitchell

Londons changed a lot from their day ... i wonder how they'd fair in todays london with all the street gangs/ Albanian/Russian gansters/gangs etc etc AND etc? ( im a born a bred londoner but just curious what people's opinions and views are? Especially the old guard cheers 🍻 😊)

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Always found these brothers very interesting ❤....they were like royalty back in day...

Ridiculous footage on US prisons, US prison guards and US railroads, where is the Kray connection?

There have movie? What the title?

When my dad told me his older brother (my uncle) was friends with the Kray twins growing up 😂