Michael Klinger was involved in promotion of the film in the UK, using the experience from his background as a distributor to conduct a strong advertising campaign. Andrew Spicer has written that "he [Klinger] sensed its potential to imbue the British crime thriller with the realism and violence of its American counterparts". She attracted Hodges' attention not just for her good looks but for her work on Alun Owen's television plays Stella and Doreen. The consensus reads, "Michael Caine shows up to collect a paycheck, and so does everyone else in this rote, middling remake.

A base de flashbacks nos enteramos de la historia del protagonista y de su hermano, y a base de conversaciones regadas con suficiente whisky como para llenar una piscina, de que todo el mundo miente como un bellaco. Something is wrong with the account of the car crash that killed his brother, and if those behind it think they got away with the scene, they don’t know Jack! He also noticed a substantial increase in women voting on the film in the eight months leading up to April 2002. I learned the hard way that [remakes], even if you do it better than the original, there’s a tremendous nostalgia attached to the original.

Así que vuelve a su ciudad natal, una de esas feas ciudades industriales del norte de Inglaterra donde las casas, el paisaje y hasta el mar son del mismo color que el hollín y la mugre que flotan en el aire, para dar caza a los asesinos, si es que los hay, de su hermano.

Back to the present and the themes and ideas in Lewis’s writing are at the forefront of our thinking as we look forward to the second Hull Noir festival, a virtual gathering of the crime fiction clans in the city where he came of age. In financial trouble and shutting down its British operations, MGM was in the process of closing its British studios at Borehamwood [30] and was looking to make smaller-budget films to turn a profit. So whilst Lewis' novel does sometimes feel like a period piece - being contemporary to the time of writing, it still manages to deliver an effective and compelling narrative. Oh and we'll be ending our tour with a stop off for some liquid refreshments, in a thin glass of course. Locations along the east coast of England had been scouted by Hodges and Klinger in the spring of 1970, to find a landscape that suggested a "hard, deprived background".The tops of the staithes as they appear in the film have been demolished; only the base of the structure remains. And the extraordinary scene in which he arrives at his late brother’s house first, pokes around the empty dismal rooms before having a grisly encounter, is a macabre masterpiece.

Stretford, Manchester, where Lewis was born a stone’s throw from the street where LS Lowry lived and where Johnny Marr first knocked on Morrissey’s front door. Also included on the DVD was commentary from Caine, Hodges and Suschitzky, constructed from separate interviews with the three. He might be booted out of the rackets forever, and he might have to look over his shoulder for the rest of his life. This is a lean, spare novel that's very well written and which should appeal to anyone who likes their crime fiction dark and unnerving, populated with few, if any, redeemable characters. But what people also get from the novel is to experience one of the greatest British post war crime novels.This is an arrangement of Roy Budd's theme from the 1971 British gangster film, arranged for Wobble's Chinese Dub orchestra. It was adapted into a classic movie in 1971 starring Michael Caine and a lackluster movie starring Sylvester Stallone in 2000. Jack’s brother’s forlorn terraced house has all been lovingly modernized in “ cherry-red formica” and “ fake brassy material” – and there’s even a list of the paperback authors on his bookshelf that tell you pretty much all you need to know about ordinary, innocent brother Frank.

Jack refuses and descends further and further into the city's underworld as his investigations begin to pay off. Originally announced in 1997, Tarsem Singh and Samuel Bayer were considered to direct the film before Stephen Kay signed on, with David McKenna writing the script.He’s not the kind of biographer to flourish some kind of glib reasoning for Lewis’s decline, forcing the man’s life into a single theory. The car park embodies one of the film's more subtle themes, which is the destruction of an old cityscape and its rebuilding in line with modern Brutalism. Asked to comment on what he was aiming for in the look of the film, cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky said "The camera work on it [.