GANGSTER No.1

Gangster No.1 (2000), is a crime thriller directed by Paul McGuigan. Following in the wake of ’Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’, this thriller is another tale of London gangsters, though this time without the humour. As studies of pure evil go, however, it’s very convincing. Malcolm McDowell plays a crime lord who, concerned that a rival he once double-crossed is about to be released from prison, looks back on the 1960s antics of his gang. Flashbacks show him played by the impressive Paul Bettany, whose