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Sean Connery plays a West End tough in this Noir masterpiece  Credit: Collection Christophel / Alamy Stock Photo In the golden age of the gangster film – the 1930s to the 1950s – it was all Hollywood, with a bit of French chucked in: Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, George Raft, Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura. The British made occasional attempts – notably Brighton Rock, though that is more a film about religion and, one senses, Pinkie’s repressed homosexuality – but whatever was happening in real life (and there certainly were vicious gangs in Britain), our film industry showed little int...

Share with: This rollicking crime thriller gets off to a pulsating start with Norrie Paramor's spot on theme music, featuring a guitar solo from The Shadows' Hank Marvin and with a camera placed in a front of a car covering half the perimeter of Soho where the action (and there's a lot of it) takes place. This is 1960! The protection racket ‘business’ was in its heyday and Reggie and Ronnie Kray were in their prime. We witness a ‘little drinker’ - that is to say a private members club, being smashed up because the proprietor has been remiss with his dues. It must be said that the gang...