They were still running rackets from behind bars, even providing bodyguards for Frank Sinatra when he came to Britain.

People came out to see the stars, but also because the Krays were still a force. They would not speak to a copper, as one character says in Legend, but they would kiss a gangster.Дiana Dors was at VioletвЂ™s funeral. They represented something lost, even then. But I knew, as I stood among the crowds at the funeral, that part of the reason some people still had strong feelings for the Krays was because they were white. Our school mates were black and Asian, and few of us could understand the appeal of the National Front. Not like the blacks and Asians colonising the old streets, some of our elders said, making no secret of their racism. We were raised on the milk of a myth: that we looked after our own that the Krays were tough but they had manners they were good to their mum and loved their dogs. We were both of us raised on the borders of an East End that still felt postwar. The cortГЁge passed the family home of a football-mad seven-year-old boy called David Beckham. It was the kind of journey many of our families had taken, out of the old East End and into Essex for an escape from poverty to a bit of comfort, space and greenery. Visit the official website.There were horses with black plumes as the hearse drove from her flat in Shoreditch a dozen miles up north to Chingford Old Church, with 60,000 people lining the streets. Universal will release Helgeland's Legend in US theaters starting October 2nd in the fall. Written and directed by Brian Helgeland, the StudioCanal, Working Title and Cross Creek film co-stars Emily Browning, David Thewlis, Christopher Eccleston, Chazz Palminteri, Tara Fitzgerald and Taron Egerton. Legend is a classic crime thriller taking us into the secret history of the 1960s and the extraordinary events that secured the infamy of the Kray twins. Confidential, Mystic River) comes the true story of the rise and fall of LondonвЂ™s most notorious gangsters, Reggie and Ron Kray, both portrayed by Tom Hardy in an amazing double performance. Here's the first official trailer for Brian Helgeland's Legend, originally from Yahoo:ДЇrom Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland ( L.A. Maybe it's just because I'm partial to Tom Hardy, who almost always kick ass, but this looks like a bloody good time! Can't wait to see it. Also in the cast: Emily Browning, David Thewlis, Chazz Palminteri, Tara Fitzgerald, Christopher Eccleston and Taron Egerton. This seems like stiff competition for Black Mass, another crime saga involving a talented actor playing a legendary mobster. Both of вЂ™em! Hardy plays both Ronald Kray and Reginald Kray in a slightly comedic crime story set in London. They were twins.' StudioCanal UK and Universal has debuted the first trailer for Legend, a story about two twin brother gangsters from London, played by Tom Hardy. 'London in the 1960s вЂ“ every one had a story about the Krays.

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