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A Very British Gangster

Echo Bridge Home Entertainment / Year: 2007

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A Very British Gangster is an all access film inside one of Britain's most dangerous crime families. For the first time, a gang of contemporary criminals open their lives to reveal a brutal world and an underclass which relies upon gangsters for justice, rather than police. The film follows the trials and tribulations of gay gangster Dominic Noonan over three years, as he lurches from criminal trial to criminal trial. His sexuality is thrown in the film offhand. It's a matter-of-fact revelation that makes this film rather extraordinary. Gay people truly are everywhere. Dominic, head of the Noonan crime dynasty, a second generation family of Irish stock, legally changed his last name to Lattlay Fottfoy, an acronym for the family motto; 'Look after those that look after you, fuck off those that fuck off you'.

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DVD : $9.99

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Region Code: 1
UPC: 096009591397
Catalog #: DV2716842

Studio : Echo Bridge Home Entertainment

Aspect Ratio: Widescreen
Features:
Deleted scenes

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The Story of Dominick Noonan

http://reviewsbyamoslassen.com/?p=4050 wrote on 03/28/2011:

Dominick Noonan is the head of Manchester, England’s most powerful and most notorious crime family and is the center of Donal MacIntyre’s powerful documentary, “A Very British Gangster”. He has been behind bars more times than he has been a free man. In this amazing film, we learn how he got his reputation but we see another side to Noonan as well—his decency, Noonan just lived on the wrong side of the law.
Noonan is not a typical crime lord. He wears no fancy suits; he is a man who wears cheap clothes and fake jewelry. We learn that he lives poorly even though he has stolen millions. “A Very British Gangster” also looks at life of the poor in Manchester where small time crooks make money from petty crimes and where they bring about fear in the lives of those that live there.
Noonan comes across as being a mobster who can talk a blue streak. He is the head of a powerful crime family and a community leader (seems incongruous). He runs drugs, he extorts, he
murders and he robs banks. He is a criminal and he knows how to win court cases. He is a dangerous man yet he is proud of what he does.
Noonan has spent 22 years in jail yet he has a certain charisma and seems jovial most of the time. He is openly gay who has a young posse and loves karaoke. Noonan’s son, Bugsy, and other youngsters worship him but do not want to enter the world of crime.
MacIntrye’s documentary is fascinating—it is a film about dangerous people who come across as all too human. “A Very British Gangster” is not your usual movie.