Bloody Business: Making The Long Good Friday Trailer
John Mackenzie was a Scottish film director perhaps best known for the 1980 gangster film The Long Good Friday. Born in Edinburgh, Mackenzie worked in British film from the late 1960s, first as an assistant director to Ken Loach on productions such as Up the Junction and Cathy Come Home, before becoming an independent director himself, going on to work in both the UK and the US.
Total trailers found: 34
11 October 1976
Bunny has told his wife he is working as a postman, but in fact is wandering the hills all day, wondering why he doesn't want to work.
18 March 1985
A young Yorkshire boy struggles to come to grips with squabbling parents, a doctor who wants to institutionalize him because of his epilepsy, and a mother who refuses to accept that he is different in any way – and that is only the half of it.
01 November 1980
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games.
24 June 1995
In the early 1990s, an Israeli freelance journalist travels to Germany and uncovers a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction intent on bringing Nazism back to the forefront in Germany.
20 March 1987
Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare.
09 March 1990
An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs.
09 December 1975
Anand, his pretty cousin and their sick uncle are stranded in Amsterdam where they receive an offer to take them to England.
28 November 1974
Mike comes home on leave from Ulster. After six years in the Army he has to decide whether to sign up again or not.
01 June 1993
Morgan and Catherine Norvell have their future plans ready. In Monte Carlo, their sailboat is stocked.
27 March 1992
Fact and fiction are combined in this story about Jack Ruby and a stripper, Candy Cane, and how they become involved in a conspiracy to kill J.
19 November 1969
The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration.
30 September 1983
Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr.
05 April 1967
The life and passions of a speaker at Hyde Park Corner.
26 June 2000
Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish underworld and attempted to expose the illegitimate activities she found.
13 June 1971
A new schoolteacher learns that the previous teacher was killed by his students, and he fears the same fate will befall him.
08 November 1979
Jake lives in the shadow of his dying grandfather, who was once the town's toughest hard man. Despite their hatred of each other, Jake's sole aim is to be as tough as the old man was.
08 January 2003
The workaholic head of the compliance section of a New York bank flies to Monaco to investigate unusual deposits from an offshore bank and meets a down-on-his-luck international film star who has become embroiled in criminal activities.
18 October 1985
The true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man.
25 February 1971
The story deals with the situation of a mature man, his mistress, his daughter and a young girl who comes into their lives.
29 November 1973
During Wakes Week in the Potteries, the factory is deserted except for three electricians on an emergency maintenance job.
01 October 1972
This compelling emotional drama stars Carol White as a young single mother who finds herself caught between two people – a local priest and a folk singer – each of whom wants to convert her to his own worldview.
06 June 1974
In their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic account of Scottish history, from the aftermath of Culloden to the oil boom.
04 September 1986
In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.
14 June 1996
When stowaways are found on board a Russian cargo ship, some of the officers and crew decide to dispose of them at sea.
17 January 1978
Three men at three different times in history come to Mow Top hill in search of sanctuary from their troubles.
05 July 1975
It's the day of the Orange Parade in Glasgow, but for Jon, the thrill of leading the parade and swinging the mace soon turns to horror as he learns the truth behind the costumes and songs.
04 April 2006
A documentary about the making of The Long Good Friday, including interviews with John Mackenzie, stars Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, producer Barry Hanson and Phil Meheux.
29 November 1998
Fact-based story about a 90's espionage case that was chronicled as the worst case of espionage in Uy
21 August 1968
When an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.
01 January 1981
A short film to warn children of sexual predators.
06 April 1976
Martin Ellis (Alan Dobie) is a blocked screenwriter who invites Helen, an actress (Kika Markham), to a hotel in central London to discuss an idea for a play he is writing with her in mind.
04 February 1973
A daughter visits her father after being estranged for 3 years and schemes to destroy his relationship with another woman.
28 February 1977
John and Helen have moved into a house in Brixton, sourh London. John then gets to know a couple of his neighbours, his next door neighbour, who is black, and a white neighbour and his young leather-clad son.
