The Krays (1990)
When people are afraid of you... you can do anything. Remember that.
Director: Peter Medak · Writer: Philip Ridley
Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but doting mother Violet. As they grow up, Ronnie's violent nature takes over, and Reggie follows his brother's lead. The two become notorious crime lords who rule over the East End club scene. But at the height of their power, the brothers veer into different lives, giving the older crime bosses a chance to reclaim what the Krays took from them.
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Director
Peter Medak
Cast
Gary Kemp
Ronald Kray 
Martin Kemp
Reggie Kray 
Billie Whitelaw
Violet Kray 
Tom Bell
Jack 'The Hat' McVitie 
Susan Fleetwood
Rose 
Charlotte Cornwell
May 
Kate Hardie
Frances 
Avis Bunnage
Helen 
Alfred Lynch
Charlie Kray Snr 
Gary Love
Steve 
Steven Berkoff
George Cornell 
Jimmy Jewel
Cannonball Lee User Reviews (1)
Despite the bests efforts of the usually reliable, if hardly versatile, Tom Bell to rescue this pedestrian story of London’s most infamous gangsters, this really doesn’t light any touch papers. Perhaps because neither Martin nor Gary Kemp are much good as actors, nor do either of them exude any sense of menace as this rather tepid biopic trundles along for two hours. “Reggie” (Martin) and gay brother “Ronnie” (Gary) are determined to impress their mother (the underused Billie Whitelaw) with a criminal enterprise that was able to thrive as the city and the country strove to recover from the Second World War. What does work here is the exposure of the sub-culture of criminality that prevailed in what was little better than a lawless East End of London; where protection rackets, prostitution and illicit trading was rampant and where, to some extent, these two men were seen as be…
