# Gangster No. 1 (2000)

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**Runtime**: 103 min
**Genres**: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
**Directed by**: Paul McGuigan
**Written by**: Johnny Ferguson
**Starring**: Paul Bettany, Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis, Jamie Foreman, Saffron Burrows, Kenneth Cranham

> *There can only be ONE!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

HMP Pentonville cinder-winter, lock clatter. A grey-haired don learns Freddie Mays walks free after thirty years. His face cracks like old plaster.

Teenage feet scuff East End cobbles, join Freddie’s mob, then slide the knife in.

A post-Jules-and-Jim British gangster study, slicker than the rain it sluices down.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, raw, unhinged

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