The Rise and Fall of the Krays
The last few years leading up to the Krays arrest and trial in 1969 saw an unprecedented degree of violence as the brothers brought about their own destruction. This film tells the definitive story of Britain's most notorious criminals who, in just ten years, acquired a chilling aura of fear through extreme violence, unparalleled in Britain's underworld. To this day the Kray's legend lives on. It is one of ruthless criminals who led a glamorous existence; they ran rackets, owned bars and casinos and mixed with celebrities. They were at their height of their criminal empire during the sixties; a post war hedonistic mix when style, power, sex, money and class all collided. Despite being glamorised by some, the Kray's remained crude thugs with uncooth manners and a streak of depression and madness, surviving on a profession of violence, extortion and small time criminal activities. In June 1967 Reggie's wife Francis killed herself after years of stress and mental illness. Reggie was heartbroken and sunk into a deep depression as his twin brother's paranoia was surfacing once again. Their psychopathic tendencies spread fear not just throughout the criminal fraternity, but within the gang itself. In the time leading up to their final arrest the twins organised the escape of Frank (Mad Axeman) Mitchell from Dartmoor, only to later murder him. Ronnie also publicly killed George Cornell in The Blind Beggar pub and Reggie stabbed Jack (The Hat) McVitie to death in a North London <b>...</b>
