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Villain (1971)
Director: Michael Tuchner
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From Time Out Film Guide
An underworld saga scripted by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, who look as though they were disgorging a semi-masticated lesson culled from Nic Roeg, Donald Cammell and Performance. A ludicrous exposé of the lower depths of London crime, it tarts up the hoariest old gangster clichés with a bit of homosexuality and a lot of thuggery, and manages to be both brutish and maudlin. Burton gives a performance of ripe grotesquerie as the gay gang boss who is the spirit of devotion to his mother and a leering Marquis de Sade to his victims.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Michael Tuchner
Producer: Alan Ladd Jr, Jay Kanter
Cast: Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport, Donald Sinden, Fiona Lewis, TP McKenna, Joss Ackland, Cathleen Nesbitt full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 98 mins
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