The Mad Axeman

2019
1h 42m

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3.3/10

219

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Frank Mitchell was sprung from Dartmoor Prison by the Krays 10 days before Christmas 1966. Whilst a national manhunt ensued, he was holed up in a flat in East London with a minder and hostess for company.

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Frank Mitchell was sprung from Dartmoor Prison by the Krays 10 days before Christmas 1966. Whilst a national manhunt ensued, he was holed up in a flat in East London with a minder and hostes... Read allFrank Mitchell was sprung from Dartmoor Prison by the Krays 10 days before Christmas 1966. Whilst a national manhunt ensued, he was holed up in a flat in East London with a minder and hostess for company.Frank Mitchell was sprung from Dartmoor Prison by the Krays 10 days before Christmas 1966. Whilst a national manhunt ensued, he was holed up in a flat in East London with a minder and hostess for company.

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IMDb RATING

3.3/10

219

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27User reviews

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3slimmie-32520

I don't regret watching it but I would've been fine not watching it.

Best way I can describe it is..it's a short story based on a real event. Nothing happens. The acting was good idk what the others are talking about. It's going to be easy to forget..but I mean a good peek inside a true mobster that escaped prison. So if your a gangster/mob buff I'm sure you'd appreciate it.

8honkyswithhumility

Great film

IMDB ratings are often totally out of kilter. This is a good film. The actor playing Frank gets the character's mood of menace, despair and manic japes just right. The sense of claustrophobia and tension is palpable. All the attention is on the three characters in the hideout flat Frank his minder John and later Lisa the woman hired to calm Mitchell down. The dynamic between the three characters is well written. It is interesting that the Krays are only peripheral and only appear on the phone giving orders.

Ignore the bad reviews and give this a chance

6richardchatten

You Can't Set Fire to a Burning Man

The Krays themselves appear only fleetingly in what is basically a three-hander 90% of which takes place in a free house lovingly decked out with sixties knickknacks like a Toby jug and Bush portable radio.

The revelation in the closing credits that it originated as a play serves only to confirm a suspicion already long formed.

6geoffreyharris2003

The Mad Axeman

After watching this film I logged on to Imdb to look at the reviews. I was quite surprised by all the negative reviews. It was no Oscar winner I would agree but not a bad watch on the whole. It tells the true story of Frank Mitchell a career criminal hard man who escapes from prison and holds up in a safe house provided by the notorious Kray twins. I thought the acting by the three main characters was not as as bad as others had stated, and I quite enjoyed it.

1ferdmalenfant

laughable acting low low budget

Just a couple of words on this trash...the first review is 10/10 I watched the movie and I have to say that the "person(s)" associated with the film who placed this first rating of 10/10 GOOD LUCK! It's a terrible, boring, low budget, badly acted piece of crappolla! What a joke.

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The screenplay for the film by Hull born writer Gill Adams is based on her stage play 'Jump to Cow Heaven' which debuted at the 1997 Edinburgh Festival and won the Fringe First of the Firsts Award for the best new play at the Festival that year, before transferring to Hull Truck Theatre and the Riverside Studios in London in the autumn of that year. Martin Freeman played the role of Frank's minder John in the original production, before he found wider fame in television and film roles. The other cast members were Josh Richards who played Frank and Sarah Parks as Lisa. Director William Kerley also directed the original production.