Phil Hearse

Writings from the Red Mole archives, 1971–2025

The Long Good Friday

Socialist Challenge no. 188, 12 March 1981, p. 13 of the scan

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don which has had a hard struggle to get shown at all, and is still in doubt for are his milder epithets for H's morality is conservative, though he can just about tolerate homo sexuality. But above all he's British, and proud of it.

Ultimately. despite apvictory on the parent military side, our hero tails to get American finance. As The leading MATOSI says can't invest here. Britain's become republic You're in worse shape than Cuba Castro took over.

Business The Long Good Friday deserves to go on genera not just for Bob Hoskins' virtuoso perforbut because the Malice. moral of the tale is an apposite one.

A declining imperialism. like Harold forces unleashed on it that it strug gles to comprehend and cer. tainly can't deal with. After all, Harold, like many of his compatriots who use more conventional techniques, is a businessman.

And in a time of social and political crisis, even the best run, mob-handed business can get into big trouble. Ask the president of any US corporation. 'The Good Frida: directed by John Mackenzie. : showing at the Classic cinema. Oxford St, London WI and a: the Ritz, Leicester Square.

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