Pressured by a rival gang and hounded by the police, he tries to cover up the crime through any means. In 1948 director John Boulting released Brighton Rock, a film adapted from Graham Greene’s novel of the same name, that told the story of Pinkie Brown (played by the great Richard Attenborough) who finds circumstances spiralling more and more out of control after he kills a news reporter. You can’t talk about the best British gangster movies without referencing one of the earliest examples of the genre. What Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels did was usher in a period of great British gangster movies while highlighting the delights of the genre to a new audience who could discover the classics like Get Carter, The Long Good Friday, The Italian Job, Mona Lisa, Villain, Brighton Rock, and Bellman & True. British film preferred, it seemed, to go down the tried and trusted route of period drama and romantic-comedy. But it had lost its allure and before Ritchie breathed new life into it, the bleak, naturalistic organised crime drama we saw in the late 1960s until the late 1980s in the UK had pretty much disappeared from cinema screens. Of course, the British gangster movie has a long and illustrious past. A film that launched the very successful career of its creator and led to many imitators, flooding the genre with a distinctive brand of Anglo gangster the guns, violence and expletives given an often rock n roll accompaniment.
In 1998, the then-unknown writer-director Guy Ritchie released what would become the seminal British gangster hit known as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
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