History Film / GangsterNo1

* SuperOCD: Gangster's personal habits, ranging from arranging his clothes to placing down his torture instruments in a nice ordered line.

* SoundtrackDissonance: Gangster plays love songs in the background while preparing to torture someone to death. (Happens again in an [extended] deleted scene when he is torturing one of Lenny's henchmen too. It's darkly humorous given the lyrics... "Why" By Anthony Newley and "It Hurts me" by Elvis.)

* VillainousBreakdown: In the end, Gangster can't deal with the emptiness of his own existence and lack of genuine identity. A result of PyrrhicVillainy or maybe even that VictoryIsBoring.

''Gangster No.1'' is a film about the rise to power of the [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] boss of London’s gangland as told by the man himself; Gangster. It stars Creator/PaulBettany as Young Gangster, Creator/MalcolmMcDowell as Old Gangster, Creator/DavidThewlis, Creator/SaffronBurrows, and Kenneth Cranham.

The film begins at a boxing event at the table of several old [[LondonGangster London Gangsters]] drinking champagne, smoking cigars and swapping stories. The mention of the pending release of Gangster’s old boss and mentor, Freddy Mays, sparks dark and long-suppressed emotions and memories for Gangster. The focus shifts to the 1960s when Gangster was recruited by Freddy and the moulding of Gangster into a sharp dressed man and feared enforcer. This being gangland London, friction with rival gangs isn’t far away and when Gangster learns that Freddy is to be targeted by another firm led by Lenny Taylor [[note]]played by Jamie Foreman whose father was real-life gangster Freddie Foreman[[/note]], he [[TheStarscream happily lets it play out so he can assume control of Freddy’s crew]]. After the “hit” on Freddy and his fiancé, Karen, has been carried out, Gangster brutally tortures Lenny in Lenny’s flat before throwing him head-first through a drinks cabinet.

Freddy and his fiancé somehow survive the attempt on their lives, but Freddy is wrongfully convicted of Lenny’s murder and sent down for 30 years. This leaves the Mays gang without a leader and Gangster assumes the throne. The years flash by with Gangster and his men taking control of London’s crime scene, staging heists, fixing horse races and opening a casino.

''Gangster No.1'' is a film about the rise to power of the [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] boss of London’s gangland as told by the man himself; Gangster. It stars Creator/PaulBettany as Young Gangster, Creator/MalcolmMcDowell as Old Gangster, Creator/DavidThewlis, Saffron Burrows, and Kenneth Cranham.

* StockUnderwear: Gangster's. There's nothing funny about him standing there in his tighty-whitey briefs, though. It usually precedes brutal and bloody murder.

* StockUnderwear: Gangster's. There's nothing funny about him standing there in his tighty-whiteys, though. It usually precedes brutal and bloody murder.