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- In fact, the movie was shot entirely in London (with a little ‘Irish’ scenery shot in Scotland) and ‘Fagan’s’, the bar in which Colin hits on the doomed Irish lad, is Grade II listed boozer The Salisbury, Grand Parade, Green Lanes, at the corner of St Ann’s Road, in Harringay, north London.
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The Long Good Friday is a 1980 British gangster film [2] directed by John Mackenzie from a screenplay by Barrie Keeffe. Starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren, the film, set in London, weaves together events and concerns of the late 1970s, including mid-level political and police corruption, and IRA fund-raising.
Nov 3, 2020 · Shot on location in London, The Long Good Friday explores a mixture of luxurious and post-industrial settings, but most vitally it is a last document of the docklands around the Thames before the developers – as dramatised in the film – bought the land to make way for the more monolithic towers that line the river today.
The Belfast pub scenes, featuring Paul Freeman, were filmed at The Salisbury, 1 Grand Parade, Green Lanes. Capture 2 As Freeman leaves the pub the location shifts to the car park of Fagans a club behind The Fishemongers Arms, 287 High Road, Wood Green.
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games.
- John Mackenzie
- Mary Sheen
The Long Good Friday was filmed in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.
The Long Good Friday: Directed by John Mackenzie. With Paul Freeman, Leo Dolan, Kevin McNally, Patti Love. An up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.
