Project Detail

The Mad Axeman

Synopsis

Taking place over 10 days in the lead up to Christmas, 1966 and based on a true story. Infamous gangsters the Kray twins sprung Frank Mitchell (aka 'The Mad Axeman') from Dartmoor prison. Frank went into hiding in East London in a flat on the Barking Road with just a hostess and minder for company, whilst a national manhunt ensued for him and his capture.
As Christmas fast approaches, the characters locked in the flat become desperate, fearful and suspicious. At the behest of the Krays, Frank writes to the Home Secretary, and his case is debated in the Houses of Parliament. If he receives a parole date, he will agree to hand himself back in. This offer is declined and Frank becames a liability.
Frank falls in love with the hostess 'Lisa', and the dysfunctional family enjoy a final Christmas Eve dinner. On Christmas day, Frank thinks he is leaving the flat to go to the countryside and to be the Kray's right hand man. In fact he is taken outside, put in a van and shot multiple times.

Details

Year: 2016
Type of project: Features
Running time: 106 mins
Format: arri alexa
Director: William Kerley 1st Feature
Producer: Rebecca Long
Co-Producer: Stella Nwimo
Executive Producer: Ian Davies
Editor: Kant Pan
Screenwriter: Gill Adams
Director of Photography: Luke Jacobs
Production Designer: Ian Hammond
Sound: Blair Jollands
Composer: Blair Jollands
Principal cast: Diarmaid Murtagh, Morgan Watkins, Elen Rhys

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Boudica Green Limited, Fugitive Films

Rebecca Long
7 Bertie Road
Cumnor
Oxford
OX2 9PS

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Sales Company

BOUDICA