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...became a big Brit hit: $22 million so far, which puts it in the blockbuster class in the U.K. The movie may not go stratospheric here, if only because its East London accents are thicker than its hail of artillery. ("Americans will get used to the language," says Jason Flemyng, one of the film's flotilla of engaging young actors, "like we had to get used to Boyz N the Hood.") But LS&2SB has all the early signs of success. Tom Cruise's early enthusiasm for the film helped it land a U.S. distributor. The picture got ballistic buzz...
...plot is too good to spoil and too complex to spill. Just know that our gang (Flemyng, Jason Statham, Nick Moran and Dexter Fletcher), scrounging to find that half a million quid, overhears the goons next door plotting to steal money and drugs from four ganja growers nearby; our lads hope to cash that booty in with an Afro-Cockney gang. (Clear?) Then it all goes as wrong as a bad day in Bosnia. "Could everyone stop getting shot?" one of the goons pleads--and this is before a shoot-out that makes the St. Valentine's Day Massacre look...
Again the hero is a nice man caught up in a nasty business, a middle-aged British agent (James Mason) assigned to check out an official (Robert Flemyng) in the Foreign Office who has been anonymously denounced as a Russian spy. Same day investigation starts, subject is found dead. Police report suicide, Mason suspects murder. Suspicion leads down a corpse-strewn trail of betrayal that ends at the hero's own door. The dead man has been betrayed by his wife (Simone Signoret), a Russian agent. The wife in turn is betrayed by the spymaster (Maximilian Schell) who employs...
...more and more grips and stirs its audience. And thanks to a generally fine production, the last act is partly salvaged. As James Callifer's mother, Dame Sybil Thorndike displays an almost vanished grand manner. As James's exwife, Leueen MacGrath has quiet poise. As James, Robert Flemyng manages to make flatness sharp and inner deadness alive, while Frank Conroy, as the uncle, is merely perfect...
...Alcoa Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Adventure in Diamonds, true story of Dutch gem merchants and Nazi plunderers, with Gary Merrill, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Flemyng (color...