FORMER LONDON GANGSTER DAVE COURTNEY WAS THE INSPIRATION FOR VINNIE JONES’ CHARACTER BIG CHRIS IN LOCK, STOCK & TWO SMOKING BARRELS.
SUNBED SCENE? DAVE IN REAL LIFE
SAWN OFF PURDEYS? DAVE IN REAL LIFE
SLAMMING HEAD IN CAR DOOR? YOU GUESSED IT…
WHEN GUY RITCHIE WAS FORCED TO BACK OUT OF USING DAVE IN LOCK, STOCK & THEN SNATCH, DAVE DECIDED TO MAKE A REAL GANGSTER MOVIE.
WITH REAL GANGSTERS.
AND IT GOT BANNED.
IT’S NO LONGER BANNED.
Amazon UK reviews
“If you want to see hard gangsters playing their real life roles, this is the movie to watch as the cast list alone represents a who's who of London crime and tough guys. Dave and his production crew went to amazing lengths to 'keep it real', and that alone deserves the respect of the viewer.”
IMDB review
“Hell to Pay looks the real deal – because it is. It's a virtual gangland video-diary: wives, the bedrocks of working-class culture, hen-peck their spouses, girlfriends go on girls' nights out, murder is clinical, brutal and short, and murder victims stay down. As do bare-knuckle boxers. It isn't the most 'polished' movie around, and if you're looking for a nattily-dressed beer commercial, fax Guy Ritchie (actually, don't bother, if Revolver's anything to go on). But as social document and brazen experiment, this is an achievement of which Gomez-Martin and all concerned should be proud.”
“Your Face Here” Magazine
"Hell to Pay is guerrilla film-making at its best - the logical extension of Performance, Get Carter, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. But this sort of thing blows those films, with their smattering of real underworld faces, out of the water."