Rise of the Footsoldier

Rise of the Footsoldier (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
114 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2007 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Julian Gilbey

Written By:
Julian Gilbey
Will Gilbey

Actors:
Ricci Harnett ..... Carlton Leach
Terry Stone ..... Tony Tucker
Craig Fairbrass ..... Pat Tate
Roland Manookian ..... Craig Rolfe
Coralie Rose ..... Denny
Neil Maskell ..... Darren Nicholls
Billy Murray ..... Mickey Steele
Ian Virgo ..... Jimmy Gerenuk
Kierston Wareing ..... Kate Carter
Patrick Regis ..... Eddie
Lara Belmont ..... Karen
Emily Beecham ..... Kelly
Frank Harper ..... Jack Whomes
Jason Maza ..... Rob
Mark Killeen ..... Terry

Synopsis:

Julian Gilbey's fact-based crime saga Rise of the Footsoldier traces one man's meteoric ascension from a lucrative soccer career, through the ranks of organized crime, to the status of Britain's most omnipotent drug lord. The tale begins in the 1970s, when hooligan Carlton Leach (Ricci Harnett) finds himself implicated in a series of violent skirmishes on the soccer fields of England. Prompted to leave this activity and enter another trade, Leach self-incorporates as a company called ICF - a front for the young entrepreneur's drug-dealing activities. Soon, Carlton's business flourishes - first with cocaine, then with ecstasy and heroin (as time rolls forward from the self-serving 80s into the 1990s), but with it comes severe addiction and, disturbingly, wave after wave of nerve-wracking violence. More hardened, more severe criminals turn up to do business with Carlton's associates, forcing Carlton to recruit tougher and more psychopathic elements to protect himself - particularly when the goods from a heroin shipment disappear and Turkish thugs begin closing in.

Crime and gangster epic over three decades about the rise of an Essex football hooligan into being part of a violent and feared criminal gang.

Follows the inexorable rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late eighties and early nineties. It is three decades of his life following him from football hooliganism, through to his burgeoning career as a bouncer, his involvement in the criminal aspects of the early "rave" scene and subsequently to his rise to power as one of the most feared and respected criminals in the country. In the end, three members of his firm are brutally murdered in the infamous shot-gun slaying at Rettenden.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 13 January, 2009.

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