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IT'S a long way from the Old Vic to The Pet Shop Boys, but Joss Ackland, who died earlier this week at the age of 95, made the journey seem like the easiest and most natural thing in the world.

Richard Burton’s London: revisiting the locations of gangland classic Villain, 50 years later Along with Get Carter, Villain was a landmark in a new wave of violent British gangster films of the early 1970s. Half a century later, the London it captured has changed irrevocably. 25 May 2021 Villain (1971) © StudioCanal The early 1970s saw an explosion of British crime cinema. Many films looked to the underworld for inspiration and drama – in particular, its role in the urban environ...