Corrected entry: When Shand is told that Eric is dead, he says "You'd need a million dollar computer to understand this!" What sort of East London gangster expresses himself in dollars?
The Long Good Friday (1980)
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Directed by: John Mackenzie
Starring: Helen Mirren, Bob Hoskins, Paul Freeman, Kevin McNally, Dave King, Bryan Marshall, Leo Dolan, Patti Love
Continuity mistake: In the very last scene, Hoskins opens the back left hand passenger door. He gets in, and is seated right on the edge of the seat (as far left as he can go) when the car takes off, and Brosnan pops up and aims a gun at Hoskins. Hoskins does not move. However, from the camera angle, Brosnan is pointing a gun at the middle of the row of seats, whereas Hoskins is sitting on the far left.
Harold: Tell 'em what your name is.
Razors: Razors.
Harold: Or as the youth of today call him, the human spirograph.
Trivia: A sequel to The Long Good Friday was written by screenwriter Barry Keeffe. Entitled The Black Easter Monday, the action starts immediately after that of The Long Good Friday when the car carrying Shand is stopped by police. Both Shand and the IRA gunman (played by Pierce Brosnan in one of his first film roles) bluff their way out of it and walk away, allowing Shand to escape. The screenplay was universally acclaimed but by the time it got through development hell Brosnan, Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren had all become big stars. They could not commit to the project and their salary demands could not be accommodated anyway. The film was never made.
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Correction: One who has just returned from the United States. One who is involved in negotiations of loans worth millions of dollars. One who has travelled and doesn't exclusively use local dialect. An intelligent, educated one who knows that saying something looks 'a million dollars' is a compliment. So, Shand, in fact.