Do you know anything about shooters? ... No-one likes guns unless you’re holding one. The Heavy 2009 starring Christopher Lee & Vinnie Jones & Gary Stretch & Stephen Rea & Shannyn Sossamon & Lee Ryan & Adrian Paul & Jean Marsh & Sadie Frost et al, director Marcus Warren, sidekick to Boots
I don’t think she could admit to herself that you were really locked away. Answering your letters would have seemed like an acceptance of what you did. ibid. father to son
You came all this way to talk about a man who put me in prison? He was the key witness for the prosecution. And how ironic. The MP so tough on crime – he testified against his own brother. I expected loyalty. ibid. son to father
Your mother wants to see you right after you’ve seen your brother. ibid. father to son
Something very very heavy. ibid. Boots to barmaid
One of the most valuable antiques collections of jewellery in the world ... sometime in March. At least two hundred thousand pounds. Perhaps a quarter of a million. Gaolbreak: Danger By My Side 1962 starring Peter Reynolds & Avice Landon & David Kernan & John Blythe & Robert Desmond & Geoffrey Hibbert & Carl Bernard & Carol White & Robert Fyfe & Katharine Page et al, director Francis Searle, antiques bloke to buyer opening scene
Summer 1973: Freddy, stop listening to music made by poofs; stick on some Elton John. Cemetery Junction 2010 starring Christian Cooke & Felicity Jones & Tom Hughes & Ricky Gervais & Jack Doolan & Emily Watson & Julia Davis & Albert Welling & Ralph Fiennes et al, directors Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant, Bruce
Elton John’s looking for a wife. ibid. Gervais
Q) Why does Noddy wear a hat with a bell on it?
A) ’Cause he’s a cunt. ibid. Snork on stage
But as soon as you leave and you’re out in the real world you have to face up to the fact that you’re nobody, you’re nothing special. ibid. Freddie to Bruce
Fucking with me is something you do not do. Four 2011 starring Kierston Wareing & Martin Compston & Craig Conway & George Morris & Sean Pertwee et al, director John Langridge
You’re a nobody. You don’t have a name here. And a nobody in serious shit. ibid.
You’re Mr Cunt, aren’t you? ibid. bird victim
You don’t do a lot of drugs, do you? Fighting Demons 2015 starring Sean Bean & Eva Longoria & Kate Walsh & Shane Black & Tom Arnold & Leonard Roberts & Paul Ben-Victor & Willa Ford et al, director Rustam Branaman
I wish I was dead. Ashes 2012 starring Ray Winstone & Jim Sturgess & Lesley Manville & Jodie Whittaker & Luke Evans & Lesley Manville & Zoe Teford & Stephen Wight & Alistair Petrie & Bhasker Patel & Daphne Cheung et al, director Mat Whitecross, Frank
We ain’t safe here. I got a mate in Brighton; he don’t know we’ll go there for a bit. London to Brighton 2006 starring Lorraine Stanley & Georgia Groome & Sam Spruell & Alexander Morton & Johnny Harris & Chloe Bale & Nathan Constance et al, director Paul Andrew Williams, opening scene
All this scum round here – that’s who you deal with, isn’t it? ibid. bloke in jam-jar
Freeze! This is a robbery! Dangerous Mind of a Hooligan 2014 starring Samuel Anoyke & Roger Griffiths & Shane Hart & Marcus Langford & Paul Marlon & Bharat Mistri & Kumud Pant & Simon Phillips & Matt Sapsford & Mark Savage & Nick Thomas-Webster, opening remarks
It’s a fucking dud. The Crew 2008 starring Scot Williams & Kenny Doughty & Rory McCann & Stephen Graham & Cordelia Bugeja & Mem Ferda & Philip Olivier & Mike Dolan & Darren Whitfield et al, director Adrian Vitoria, opening scene
Leo the Pig – he’s been done in. ibid. hoodie
I can’t possibly let you have any more money. King of the Underworld 1952 starring Tod Slaughter & Patrick Barr & Tucker McGuire & Ingeborg Wells & David Davies & Frank Hawkins & Len Sharp & Anne Valerie et al, director Victor M Gover, opening scene her to shark on dog-n-bone
We’re entrepreneurs. Plastic 2014 starring Ed Speleers & Will Poulter & Alfie Allen & Sebastian de Souza & Emma Rigby & Lisa Maffia & Malese Jow & Amelle Berrabah & Thomas Kretschmann & Graham McTavish & Mem Ferda et al, director Julian Gilbey
You won’t like it. Two million pays off your debt. Buys my forgiveness. ibid. baddie
For some time I’d been thinking of leaving the organization. Hearing that man scream – suddenly I couldn’t take it any more. Double X: The Name of the Game 1992 starring Bernard Hill & Norman Wisdom & Leon Herbert & Vladek Sheybal & Derren Nesbitt & Chloe Annett & Simon Ward & Gemma Craven et al, director Shani S Grewal
Name of Morgan. He’s got class. We need a bit of that in our business. They Made Me a Fugitive 1939 starring Trevor Howard & Charles Farrell & Sally Gray & Griffith Jones & Rene Ray & Mary Merrall & Michael Brennan & Cyril Smith et al, director Alberto Cavalcanti, boss
If I want to peddle sherbert, I’ll peddle sherbert. ibid.
I want you to shoot my husband. ibid. wife to Howard
I’ll wait for you. ibid. her to him
There’s seven of ’em, but one’s going to be a bit of a handful. The Sweeney! 1977 starring John Thaw & Dennis Waterman & Linda Bellingham & Barry Foster & Ian Bannen & Colin Welland & Diane Keen & Michael Coles & Joe Melia & Brian Glover & Morris Perry et al, director David Wickes, Regan to squad
Looks like a gang war: Brent versus the Morrises or the Chilcotts. ibid. rozzer
Smallest Ever Train Robbery: Switch Foils Bandits. Crooks in Cloisters 1963 starring Ronald Fraser & Barbara Windsor & Gregoire Aslan & Bernard Cribbins & Davy Kaye & Melvyn Hayes & Wilfrid Brambell & Joseph O'Conor & Corin Redgrave & Francesca Annis et al, director Jeremy Sumers, Daily Mirror front page
Do the real monks do bird all the time? ibid. Brother Specs
You bastard. You had to kill that guard, didn’t you? Circus of Fear 1966 starring Leo Glenn & Christopher Lee & Anthony Newlands & Eddi Arent & Klaus Kinski & Maurice Kaufmann & Heinz Drache & Cecil Parker & Lawrence James et al, director John Moxey, opening scene
Spain’s Costa Del Sol – home of sun, sex and money. Playground and safe haven for some of Britain’s toughest gangstas. For ten long years this was a sun-kissed sanctuary for British prison cells. A legal loophole made them untouchable. As they bought up luxury villas and made millions. Politicians were powerful, detectives frustrated. With their hands tied the police turned to a fearless British TV journalist. Britain’s Underworld: Costa Del Crime
Knight’s criminal career started early: he started his first robbery by aged ten; by twenty he was a professional thief. ibid.
Freddie Foreman was to become a top Costa gangsta as well. He developed an early taste for Spain. ibid.
The Train Robbers were the first big British criminals to hang out in Spain. ibid.
In Britain armed robberies continued to rise. In 1982 there were 1,772 robberies in London alone; thirty-four a week. ibid.
Since 2006 Spanish and British police have worked together to capture and extradite British Costa criminals. ibid.
What do you think when you hear the word Skinhead? Violence, intolerance, hatred? This image was born in the 1970s when this youth-driven subculture earned a reputation for trouble on the streets and terraces, and a toxic association with racism. But that’s not how it started. The Story of Skinheads with Don Letts, BBC 2018
Jamaican recording artists were also pleased by this new-found interest. So much so, a whole new genre was born out of ska: skinhead reggae. ibid.
In Britain back then racism was a way of life. ibid.
This dark side obviously made for great headlines, was further intensified by the publication of Richard Allen’s book Skinhead in 1970. ibid.
The Sham ’69 story is a real tragedy. ibid.
There was another movement waiting in the wings to pick up the skinhead slack, good and bad … This was 2-Tone. ibid.
The coming decade would see yet another incarnation of Skinhead, and one that confused the hell out of me: it was harder, it was tougher, and I couldn’t see or hear any connection to Jamaica … This very white and violent incarnation of Skinhead … I couldn’t relate to Oi! ibid.