The Krays

The Krays

  • Director: Peter Medak
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • Release date: November 9, 1990
  • Sound mix: Dolby
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Die Krays
  • "The Krays" is a biopic directed by Peter Medak, starring Billie Whitelaw and Martin Kemp.
    The film tells the story of twin brothers Ronnie Cray and Reggie Cray being raised by their strong-willed mother Violet and two aunts after they were born. The two brothers have been mixing together in a violent environment. Reggie’s wife is disappointed in Reggie. And suicide.

    Details

    • Release date November 9, 1990
    • Filming locations Walcot Square, Kennington, London, England, UK
    • Production companies Fugitive TV Productions, Fugitive Features, Parkfield Entertainment

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $2,060,847

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $948,002

    Gross worldwide

    $2,060,847

    Movie reviews

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    • By Alana 2022-10-08 22:01:29

      Not bad in itself but worth remaking

      Unlike many other gangster movies I've watched, the female characters have a strong sense of presence and are very poking. Most women are very powerful images, but men are rather rogue and incompetent. I never thought about feminist and gangsters getting along...so it’s quite new. But also because of this, as a real crime movie, the line is a bit scattered, the crime itself is not written enough, and the pen and ink describing the cause, process and results of the murder are too few, so it is...

    User comments

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    • By Earl 2023-08-08 20:06:35

      The best filmed in related...

    • By Gwendolyn 2023-08-07 10:11:40

      Bad enough but cool~ This kind of film kneels and begs for...

    • By Jimmie 2023-07-24 08:05:42

      There are some special gangster movies, but the narrative is scattered, and the characters are not particularly portrayed....

    • By Magnus 2023-07-19 18:04:37

      BSC™ 120FL, the country of corruption, the country of corruption... If you don't adjust it on the hour, you must be extremely...

    • By Godfrey 2023-06-29 18:22:08

      It’s a waste to shoot such a good material so...

    Movie plot

    The twin brothers Ronnie Cray and Reggie Cray were raised by strong-willed mother Violet and two aunts after they were born. The two brothers grew up living among women and developed awe in women. In the 1950s, the Cray brothers, who had grown up, became ruthless and like violence. The Cray brothers took over a bankrupt billiard room in London and transformed it into a nightclub. Reggie fell in love with the young girl Frances and...
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    Background creation

    In 1990, the gangster movie fever in the British film industry returned, and the representative was "The Krays". The movie "Gram" is an excellent old-fashioned morality film, which describes how bad guys flew to the top and then fell to pieces. The film is more like a fable that warns than just an exciting and compelling ordinary story. Its title and story come from real-life twin brothers named Ronald and Regina Hui Clay. The film is...
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    Movie quotes

    • Palendri: I love London - it's so wonderfully dirty. And The Beatles - I adore The Beatles. You know The Beatles?

      Reggie Kray: No

      Ronald Kray: I believe they know us.

    • George Cornell: Well, well, well, all the pretty boys together, eh?

      Steve: Piss off, Cornell.

      George Cornell: How's your boyfriend, lately? Still in tears over his auntie?

      Steve: You wanna watch your mouth.

      George Cornell: You what?

      Steve: I said, you wanna your mouth.

      George Cornell: [grabbing him] Poofs don't warn anyone! You listening? You tell your fat poof friend he doesn't scare me! Oh, he's bringing over his Yankee friends from America, getting ideas a bit above his station, inn'he? Well, tell him he can own all he likes, but he's still tied to his mother's apron strings. OK? Goodnight, girls.

      [he leaves]

      Steve's Friend: You gonna tell Ron?

      Steve: I don't think I'm gonna have to. Half the fucking pub heard him.

    • Eddie Pellam: It's Cornell.

      Charlie Pellam: Oh, what does he want? I thought he wasn't supposed to leave his coffin when the sun was up.

      [Cornell storms into the scrapyard office, clutching a newspaper]

      George Cornell: Those Kray brothers are getting on my tits.

      [Charlie sends the secretary out]

      Charlie Pellam: You know, Cornell, it's amazing you can walk at all with your foot in your mouth so much.

      [Cornell throws his newspaper onto the desk. A photo of the Krays is on it with the titles "Krays join crime fight" and "Businessmen aid charity boxing night"]

      George Cornell: You seen this?

      Eddie Pellam: Well, surprise us, what is it?

      George Cornell: Kray brothers, splattered all over the papers. Bloody heroes, they are! This to charity, that to charity, the other to charity.

      Eddie Pellam: What does it matter?

      George Cornell: What does it matter! You sit here in your little office crushing cars into little snotballs, what does it matter? I'm out there earwigging it on the street and what I'm hearing is Kray Kray Kray Kray Kray! The pavement stinks with Kray!

      Charlie Pellam: What are you saying, Cornell?

      George Cornell: You know damn well what I'm saying!

      Charlie Pellam: Cornell, we've been through this a million times. The Krays are not interested in us. Course, they will be if you don't shut that megaphone of a voice box.

      George Cornell: No, no, no. You don't know what they're saying about you, they're saying things.

      Charlie Pellam: Things? What things?

      George Cornell: Things. I say shoot the bastards. Shoot them. What are they, a pair of bumboys, let's put them out of their misery! A couple of movie gangsters! All they're interested in is what they look like! They make me sick! They're a pair of locusts! You won't have a thing, you won't have the pants you're sitting in unless we do something now. They walk down the street like Kings! King ponces, and you know why? They own the fucking street! So what I say is, bang-bang, all over, nice one. Nice and sweet, easy, end of aggro, OK?