The Krays

Year:

1990

Duration:

119 min

Genres:

Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller

IMDB rate:

6.7

Director:

Peter Medak

Awards:

Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 4 wins & 1 nomination

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 1990-11-09

Filming Locations: Aldwych Underground Station, Aldwych, Holborn, London, England, UK

Cast

Actor

Character

Mark Burdis

Billie Whitelaw

Violet Kray

Tom Bell

Jack 'The Hat' McVitie

Gary Kemp

Ronald Kray

Martin Kemp

Reggie Kray

Susan Fleetwood

Rose

Charlotte Cornwell

May

Kate Hardie

Frances

Avis Bunnage

Helen

Alfred Lynch

Charlie Kray

Gary Love

Steve

Steven Berkoff

George Cornell

Jimmy Jewel

Cannonball Lee

Barbara Ferris

Mrs. Lawson

Victor Spinetti

Mr. Lawson

John McEnery

Eddie Pellam

Philip Bloomfield

Charlie Pellam

Norman Rossington

Shopkeeper

Patti Love

Iris

Michael Balfour

Referee

Roger Monk

Charlie Jnr.

Jimmy Flint

Perry

Andrew Kitchen

Dennis

Michael Joseph Carr

Eddie (as Michael Carr)

Ian Burfield

Whip

Bob Brimson

Grey

Russell Gold

Terry

David Arlen

Dickie

Jon McKenna

Sam Ripley

Sean Blowers

Chris Ripley (as Sean Blower)

Murray Melvin

Newsagent

Sadie Frost

Sharon Pellam

Stephen Lewis

Policeman

Peter Turner

Regal Manager

Soo Drouet

Jack's Girlfriend

John H. Stracey

Boxer

David Fenwick

Doctor

Laura Cox

Ivy

Angus MacInnes

Palendri

Michael Tezcan

Italian Gangster

Richard Vanstone

Man Cut Outside Regal

Chris Pitt

Young Eddie

Pete Gillett

Man in Fight

Julie May

Midwife

Jackie Downey

Angry Customer

Vernon Dobtcheff

Teacher

Ryan Ward

Steve's Friend

Chrissie Cotterill

Barmaid (as Chrissie Coterill)

Simon Foy

Lost Boy

Tony Sands

Lost Boy

Behrouz Behnejad

Maltese Gangster

Mathew Barney

Boy in Classroom

Ben Brazier

Charlie Aged 12 (as Benjamin Brazier)

John-Paul White

Ron and Reg Aged 3

Michael White

Ron and Reg Aged 3

Harlon Haveland

Ron and Reg Aged 8

Samson Haveland

Ron and Reg Aged 8 (as Sam Haveland)

Jason Bennett

Ron and Reg Aged 12

Jamie Bennett

Ron and Reg Aged 12

Jimmy Batten

Straker

Brian Nickels

Frank

Dave Courtney

Bill

Ben Mansworth

Tom

Sean Barry-Weske

Postman / Block Warden (uncredited)

Terence Dackombe

Thug (uncredited)

Michael Elphick

George - Prisoner (uncredited)

Frank Jarvis

Drill Sergeant (uncredited)

Andrew Michael Jolley

Boy# 2 (uncredited)

Lenny McLean

Spectator at Ringside (uncredited)

Julia Migenes

Judy Garland

Jonathan Reason

Thug (uncredited)

Susie Ann Watkins

Susie (uncredited)

Brian Wilson

Tourist (uncredited)

Fred Wood

Fight Spectator (watching Ronnie & Reggie in the ring) (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Roger Daltrey had originally intended to produce a film about the Kray twins life after acquiring the rights to John Pearson's book "The Profession Of Violence". His intended casting was Hywel Bennett as Ronnie and Gerry Sundquist as Reggie, with Billy Murray as Charlie and Jean Alexander as the Kray's mother Violet. The idea was abandoned however once the Peter Medak version was announced.

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One of the poems read in the early portion of the film, when the Krays are still children, is "Alone" by Edgar Allan Poe, the last line of which, "Of a demon in my view", hints at the evil of the Kray boys.

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There was a gap in between the houses in Caradoc Street so they built a false front for the 1930s; put a load of rubble in the road to look as though it had been bombed for the 1940s; and then put up corrugated iron for the 1960s.

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Goofs

Modern 1980's cars can be seen in some shots, particularly when Frances is running down the street and in the long shot when she and Reg are kissing in the back garden.

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In the slow-motion sequences of the fairground boxing scene, the filming lights illuminating the scene can be seen flickering very prominently, due to beating between the mains frequency of the lights and the very high frame rate used to achieve the slow motion. They should have used DC-powered lights!

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At 93m 22s just before one of the gang offers the grieving Reggie a sandwich, the boom mike appears above the head of Gary Kemp (Ronnie).

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Quotes

Drill Sergeant: You are not people any more. You are not human beings. You are part of a machine. You do not wear what you want to, think what you want to - you wear what we tell you, think what we tell you, eat when we tell you, sleep, shit and fuck when we tell you!

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Violet Kray: Who loves you, eh? That's right, Mummy loves you, you little monsters. Mummy loves you more than anything - more than all the cakes, more than all the jewellery, more than all the chocolate in the world.

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Ronald Kray: You go back and you tell Rutherman no-one fucks with us. This is nothing. Give me your hand. Do it!

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