Code of Silence

This is set in 1967 but we have a warehouse full of containers which weren't around then. We have read issuing a caution that didn't exist until PACE in 1984. These are just two of the inaccuracies. There are others such as the cut of the suits, the ties, the shoes. As soon as you see such inaccurate details you know the film is going to be a wrong 'un. The film gives far too much prominence to Read as the lead on the investigation. He was the head of a much bigger squad than the one portrayed and many of the details of the true investigation are absent whilst others have been invented. This film is trash and just cashes in on the fascination so many have with the Krays and of London in the sixties. To be honest, as a Londoner who grew up in the EastEnd in the Fifties and Sixties, this film feels more like the late 80's early 90's.