When he arrives, Jack’s home town is encircled by the flames of furnaces – and his descent into hell begins. com praised "the sharp turn given by Sly Stallone, its groovy tunes, and its generally dark and gritty nature. They had black pupils an eighth of an inch in diameter surrounded by whites the colour of the fish part of fish fingers.

This a world where very nasty things happen - brutality, exploitation and casual violence are the norm. Lewis is no longer regarded as the Barton lad who’d done well, ‘who wrote that film with Michael Caine. If you love hardboiled novels, you are going to be asking yourself, just like I have, why has it taken you so long to read this? Also included on the DVD was commentary from Caine, Hodges and Suschitzky, constructed from separate interviews with the three. I was lucky to have friends and associates on the record, sharing their memories in a way that’s no longer possible.not bad, but very much of its time, and I don't think I could have followed the plot if I hadn't read the book.

Oh and we'll be ending our tour with a stop off for some liquid refreshments, in a thin glass of course. The consensus reads, "Michael Caine shows up to collect a paycheck, and so does everyone else in this rote, middling remake. Someone killed his brother and, by golly, they're going to pay along with anyone else who gets in his way.The film was shot in Metrocolor, [4] which was MGM's trade name for films processed at its Eastmancolor laboratory.