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Better than The Third Man, for my money, which is usually put forward as best UK film ever, and probably the best gangster movie in England ever. It's really a film noir in the vein of The Big Combo or The Big Heat, and Hodges uses Boorman's Point Blank as his template for this adaptation of the book - but never gets as existential as that movie. It's got '60's hipness, a few slightly dodgy/unconvincing accents, but a reaL nasty nihilism that sets it apart from other movies - even The Long Good Friday. Caine is unique and carries the film as well as a Dick Hammer or Philip Marlowe played by a Hollywood heavyweight. It's brilliant - see it!
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