Gangster No. 1

Gangster No.pronounced Gangster Number One is a 2000 British crime film directed by Paul McGuigan and starring Paul Bettany in the title role. It also features Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis and Saffron Burrows. It is based on the play Gangster No.1 by Louis Mellis and David Scinto.

The narrative moves back in time to the 1960s, showing a younger Gangster Bettany. He comes to the attention of a very influential London gangster, Freddie Mays Thewlis, who recruits him to be an enforcer. The Gangster is eager to please, and while his violent actions at first dismay Mays, he soon proves his loyalty to Mays with creative ways of murder. However, the Gangster quickly becomes obsessed with and deeply jealous of Mays glamorous lifestyle and success.The Gangster soon discovers that Mays main rival, Lennie Taylor Jamie Foreman, is planning on killing Mays. Instead of warning his boss, the Gangster decides to let the attack take place, killing the only other member of his own gang who knew of the impending attack. It goes on as planned, and the Gangster sits in a car nearby to watch as Lennie and his gang shoot and stab Mays and slit the throat of his fiance, Karen Saffron Burrows. Later that same night the Gangster goes to Lennies flat, shoots him in the leg, and then tortures him to death. ........

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