I regret glamorising the Kray twins, says producer of hit film.
Ray Burdis looks to set record straight in new production about the notorious gangsters who terrorised 1960s London
In the hit 1990 film The Krays, the East End gangsters were portrayed as “identical twins who rose from poverty to power”, “from obscurity to fame” and “from the back streets to the attention of the world”. They were “special” boys, the film claimed, who loved their mother.