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Louis Theroux: Behind Bars is a television documentary written and presented by Louis Theroux about one of America's most notorious prisons, San Quentin. There, he meets and speaks to serial murderers, gang members, at-risk inmates and guards. [1] The film was produced and directed by Stuart Cabb, and was first aired on BBC Two on 13 January 2008.
The movie focuses on the personal life of the brothers, including Reg's marriage and then alienation from his wife, who commits suicide. The movie takes some liberties with historical facts, [2] as it omits the police investigation of the Krays, which led to a trial, convictions and imprisonment. It ends with a jump-cut to their attending their ...
Ronald James and Reginald Kray were born on 24 October 1933 in Haggerston, East London, to Charles David Kray (1907–1983) and Violet Annie Lee (1909–1982).The Krays were thorough Eastenders – Charles from Shoreditch and Violet from Bethnal Green – and were apparently of mixed Irish, Austrian Jewish and Romanichal descent, [4] [5] [6] although this has been disputed. [7]
The Rise of the Krays is a 2015 low-budget biographical film about the Kray twins who terrorised London during the 1950s and 1960s. [1] The film was funded by Terry Brown and David Sullivan and was in development before the production team learned of Legend , the larger-budgeted studio film scheduled for release the same year.
Ron pays petty criminal Jack "the Hat" McVitie to kill Leslie Payne, Reg's partner, who controls the legal side of the Krays' operations, as he does not trust Payne. Jack only wounds Payne, who turns on the brothers, informing on them to Detective Superintendent Leonard "Nipper" Read , the head of the investigation.
The Krays' Mad Axeman (also known as: The London Mob) is a 2019 film directed by William Kerley and starring Diarmaid Murtagh, Morgan Watkins and Elen Rhys.It is based on the play Jump to Cow Heaven by Gill Adams, itself based on the true story of Frank Mitchell, a convict and associate of the Kray Twins, who facilitated Mitchell's escape from prison in 1966 and are presumed to have ordered ...
"When I talked to the VA about getting a service dog, I saw that 'Puppies Behind Bars' does work for trauma, for PTSD dogs," said Col. Jeanna Meyer, a veteran and service dog recipient.
The Fall of the Krays is a 2016 low-budget British crime film directed by Zackary Adler and written by Ken and Sebastian Brown based on the true story of Ronnie and Reggie Kray. The film serves as the sequel to The Rise of the Krays .