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Released
1980 · FILM

The Long Good Friday

Cockney crime kingpin Harold Shand races to seal a lucrative American Mafia deal that will transform a derelict London district into a future Olympic venue, only to have his empire shattered by a wave of bombings and a hidden traitor he must root out before everything collapses.

“Who lit the fuse that tore Harold's world apart?”

Directed by
John Mackenzie
Written by
Barrie Keeffe
Runtime
114 min
CrimeDramaMystery
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster seeking to establish himself as a legitimate property mogul, aims to secure American Mafia backing for a redevelopment project in a run-down London district, with the potential to become a future Olympic Games venue. His plans are disrupted when a series of bombings strike his operations over the weekend the Americans are in town. Convinced that a traitor is responsible, Shand takes brutal measures to identify and eliminate the mole within his organization.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Mike TaylorShot by Phil MeheuxScored by Francis Monkman

Box Office

1980 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$500K

Budget$1.0M
Worldwide gross$500K
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Rififi am Karfreitagde
  • Du sang sur la Tamisefr
  • Quel lungo venerdì santoit

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