Richard Standeven Movies
In the Roaring '20s Chicago, three young men newly arrived from Liverpool find themselves working for Al Capone (Julian Littman). Capone's ruthless right-hand man Georgio (Al Sapienza) exploits Jimmy's (Marc Warren) explosive right uppercut by scheduling him in a boxing match against the local champ; in preparation, Georgio has Jimmy train with the aging coach Boom Boom (Richard Roundtree). Only later do they realize the fight is fixed and Jimmy is ordered to take a dive in the fifth round, something he's reluctant to consider. Jimmy makes things worse by having an affair with Georgio's girlfriend Edith (Kirsty Mitchell), and hot-tempered Georgio is not happy. Meanwhile Jimmy's mates are implicated in the kidnapping of Capone's young son, an accusation they compound by robbing the mob safe. Can these adventures possibly have happy endings? ~ Buzz McClain, Rovi
- 1998
In this four-part British miniseries, successful builder George Brunos (Jonathan Cake) was sent to prison, accused of participating in a bank robbery and murder. Protesting his innocence, George claimed that he could be cleared by the very informant who turned him in; alas, that informant had died under suspicious circumstance. Believing her husband's story, George's wife Donna (Susan Vidler) engineered a scheme to help him escape from prison. Only too late did Donna discover the awful truth behind George's protestations -- and by then, both she and her husband had been targeted for extermination by certain unsavory characters. A co-production of Warner Sisters and ITV, the first hour-long episode of The Jump was seen in Britain on September 6, 1998. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Set in 1930s Ireland, Falling for a Dancer was the poignant tale of young rural colleen Elizabeth Sullivan (Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh). After a one-night stand with a charismatic traveling actor, 19-year-old Elizabeth found herself pregnant. Grimly, her father forced her into a loveless marriage with a widowed farmer several years older than she. Somehow or other, Elizabeth hoped that this bleak situation would culminate in happiness, and, in a manner of speaking, it did. The four 50-minute episodes of Falling for a Dancer launched their BBC1 run on September 13, 1998. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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