Lovable British rogues have enthralled cinema goers for the better part of a century in classic London crime capers like Brighton Rock, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Italian Job and The Long Good Friday, through to McVicar, Lock Stock, Sexy Beast and Legend (2015). Even when brandishing knuckle dusters, plotting to off little old ladies, threatening to shit the Ira or taking their shirts off (cas they’re “sweating like a c*%t”), these antiheroes have made a massive mark in cinema over the decades. Despite being synonymous with heist movies they are arguably a genre unto themselves yet, but while the widespread affection remains, there hasn’t been a truly memorable cockney/ London crime film or character for quite some time.
In 2015, the infamous Hatton Garden robbery, in which £200 million’s worth of cash and jewels were stolen from safety deposit boxes, provided film producers with the basis for a fresh and relevant take.
In 2015, the infamous Hatton Garden robbery, in which £200 million’s worth of cash and jewels were stolen from safety deposit boxes, provided film producers with the basis for a fresh and relevant take.
- 9/3/2018
- by Daniel Goodwin
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Seven members of a gang who pulled off a $20 million jewelry heist from a London vault have been found guilty in court. The gang pulled off the biggest burglary in British legal history in Easter 2015 when they raided 56 safe deposit boxes at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Co. in the heart of London's historic jewelry quarter. Making the heist more notable was that six of the seven thieves were past the age of 55. "It was an audacious, brazen burglary that was some three years in the planning," Scotland Yard's Detective Superintendent Craig Turner says in a statement. "Hatton Garden jewelers...
- 1/14/2016
- by Philip Boucher, @philipboucher
- PEOPLE.com
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