The Long Good Friday

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Long Good Friday
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Barrie Keeffe
SeriesScreen and Cinema
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:96
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreFilm scripts and screenplays
ISBN/Barcode 9780413722904
ClassificationsDewey:791.4372
Audience
General
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publication Date 7 May 1998
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Barrie Keeffe's acclaimed screenplay for the classic film Harold Shand has made it from Whitechapel to running his own 'corporation' and owning his own yacht and classy mistress. He has the police and the local authorities in his pocket, is planning a major London property development and forging links with the international Mafia. Everything indeed is coming up roses for Harold until the Easter weekend when enemies unknown embark on a series of lethal outrages against his organisation. As the story accelerates to a crazy vortex of violence, Harold discovers he has unwittingly crossed enemies whose connections, expertise and dedication to violence outclass his own. "The first British thriller to even approach the cracking vitality of the classic Hollywood gangster movies . . .dazzlingly slick" (Daily Mail); "The best British gangster flick of all time" (Empire)

Author Biography

Barrie Keeffe (b. 1945) is a well-known English dramatist and writer, whose plays include Only a Game (1973), A Sight of Glory (1975), Here Comes the Sun (1976), My Girl (1989), I Only Want to Be With You (1995), The Long Good Friday (1997), Shadows on the Sun (2001), Still Killing Time (2006) and two trilogies: Gimme Shelter and Barbarians. He has also been resident writer at the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Shaw Theatre and the Soho Poly Theatre and Associate Writer at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East. He taught dramatic writing at City University in London and in 2010 he gained the title of Doctor of Letters by the University of Warwick.