- Johnny Was
Infobox Film
name = Johnny Was
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caption = "Johnny Was" DVD cover
director =Mark Hammond
producer = Brendan Foley
writer =Brendan Foley
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starring =Vinnie Jones Patrick Bergin Eriq La Salle Samantha Mumba Lennox Lewis
music =
cinematography = Mark Moriarty
editing = Leif Axel Kjeldsen
distributor =Sony Pictures Entertainment
released = 2006
runtime = 93 min
country = UKIRL
language = English
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imdb_id = 0426501"Johnny Was" is a British/Irish
gangster movie directed byMark Hammond and written byBrendan Foley and made by Ben Katz Productions, Borderline Productions and Nordisk Film in 2005 and was released in the UK in 2006 bySony Pictures and in the US by First Look Studios.ynopsis
Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in
Ireland to lie low inLondon , until his former mentor Flynn breaks out ofBrixton Prison , hellbent on derailing the Irish peace process with a few well-placed bombs. Unable to escapeBrixton , they are trapped together in Johnny's anything-but-safe safe house, sandwiched between a Rastafarianreggae pirate radio station upstairs and a West IndianYardie crack -dealing gangster, Julius, downstairs.As the charismatic Flynn finds common ground with the Yardies, Johnny fights to realize a peace process of his own, but makes the mistake of falling for Julius's girlfriend Rita, causing all-out war. It is a thriller in the vein of "
The Long Good Friday ", in which questions of race, morality, identity and loyalty play out against a soundtrack of reggae, rock, new wave and soul."Variety" raved about the original reggae soundtrack by
Adrian Sherwood .Fact|date=February 2007Cast
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Vinnie Jones - Johnny Doyle
*Eriq La Salle - Julius
*Patrick Bergin - Flynn
*Samantha Mumba - Rita
*Lennox Lewis - Ras
*Wilson Jermaine Heredia - Sparra
*Roger Daltrey - JimmyFinancial information
Johnny Was was principally financed by Ben Katz Productions, the Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission, the Irish Film Board, and Nordisk.
=Trivia=The scene set in
Brixton Market was actually filmed at Smithfield Market inBelfast . Many of theshots were taken in various locations aroundNorthern Ireland .The singer of The Who,Roger Daltrey , played Jimmy Nolan.External links
*imdb title|id=0426501
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