Terrific adaptation that keeps all the grit and danger from the Higgins book while providing any actor cast with great, complicated scenes. The script holds tight to the Boston of yesteryear and has so many memorable characters: the doomed Eddie, who makes that one wrong decision that seals his fate; the cold, calculating Dillon; the petty crooks, the mob girlfriend with the heart of tarnished gold. Doncaster has given us all a gift with this piece.
Terrific adaptation that keeps all the grit and danger from the Higgins book while providing any actor cast with great, complicated scenes. The script holds tight to the Boston of yesteryear and has so many memorable characters: the doomed Eddie, who makes that one wrong decision that seals his fate; the cold, calculating Dillon; the petty crooks, the mob girlfriend with the heart of tarnished gold. Doncaster has given us all a gift with this piece.