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Villain [1971] [VHS]

VHS ~ Richard Burton
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Richard Burton, Nigel Davenport, Ian McShane
  • Directors: Michael Tuchner
  • Format: HiFi Sound, PAL, Colour, Full Screen
  • Language English
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • VHS Release Date: 1 Aug 1994
  • Run Time: 94 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CK97
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 12,980 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Action thriller which centres around a vicious East End gangster, who loves his mother, beats up his boyfriend and has a ruthless contempt for society and his fellow men.

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars THE ERA of CREATIVE BRILLIANCE, 26 April 2000
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This film was made in the same year as Get Carter, but has been largely ignored as a gangster classic. Richard Burton delivers a riveting performance as a character based largely on Reggie Kray. This film may not have an enthralling screenplay, but it has definite artistic merit, in the same creative vein as Blow-Up, Performance, The Long Good Friday, and all the fascinating film-making ideas of late-sixties, early-seventies London. Ofcourse, it is bound to disappoint today's audience, bred on mind-numbing idiocy such as Armageddon. However, if you enjoy great character study, superb camera-work, and edgy authenticity, if you can hold together the unconventional story, it is legend Burton.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars villain, 22 Aug 2003
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WHEN PEOPLE TALK OF GREAT BRITISH GANGSTER FILMS IT ALWAYS GET CARTER THIS AND LOCK STOCK THAT. WELL VILLAIN SHOULD BE SPOKEN ABOUT IN THE SAME BREATH. RELEASED THE SAME YEAR AS GET CARTER, ITS THE STORY OF VIC DEAKIN(A SUPERB RICHARD BURTON) AN EAST END GANGSTER WHO MASTERMINDS A WAGES SNATCH THAT GOES WRONG AND THE CONSEQUENCES THAT FOLLOW. I CANT EXPRESS HOW UNDERRATED THIS FILM IS. ITS NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD(WHY?!) AND A HARD FIND ON VIDEO! ITS ALOT MORE VIOLENT THAN THE PREVIOUSLEY MENTIONED FILMS AND ALOT MORE REALISTIC. SO IF YOU LOVE GANGSTER FILMS AND YOU HAVNT SEEN THIS ONE, CHECK IT OUT AS SOON AS YOU CAN!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Get Carter, 4 Dec 2008
By Brendan O. Clarke "brendoclarke" (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
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Get Carter? This is a better movie. It is a well directed 1971 movie that is a classic example of the English gangster genre which stretches from Brighton Rock, through Get Garter and the Long Good Friday, to Lock, Stock etc. Writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais have fashioned a kind of East-End version of White Heat with Burton in the mother-fixated Jimmy Cagney role.

Burton gives us his Ronnie Kray impersonation and clearly relishes the sly dialogue of the script. The support includes notable turns from Nigel Davenport, Donald Sinden, and a hilarious Joss Ackland as a would-be gangster, with an upset tummy - ulcer.

The action is well-handled and the settings convincingly grubby but it's the superb dialogue that repays repeated viewings.
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