

In fact, The Blind Beggar opens straight on to the thoroughfare of Whitechapel Road and not on a corner. In the murder scene of George Cornell, the location chosen for the pub makes it look as if it is on a quiet back street.Several friends of theirs have corroborated this. Helgeland has since said he used this scene as part of his "poetic licence."

In real life, Frances insisted Reg was never physically violent towards her.
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However, the results of Ron's barely concealed violence continue to cause problems with Scotland Yard, who open a full investigation of the Kray brothers. Initially, this system is highly lucrative for the Kray brothers. Bruno agrees to a fifty-fifty deal with Reggie to split London's underground gambling profits in exchange for local protection from the Kray brothers. The brothers are approached by Angelo Bruno of the Philadelphia crime family on behalf of Meyer Lansky and the American Mafia, to try to interest them in a crime syndicate deal.
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When Reggie is finally released from prison, the two brothers have an all-out fist fight on the first night after Reggie's release, but they manage to partially patch things up. The club is almost forced to close after Ron scares away most of the customers. While Reggie is in prison, Ron's mental problems and violence lead to severe setbacks at the nightclub. Reggie enters into a relationship with Frances, the sister of his driver, and they ultimately marry however, he is imprisoned for a previous criminal conviction, which he cannot evade. One of their first efforts is to muscle-in on the control of a local night club, using extortion and brutal violence. The two brothers unite their efforts to control a large part of London's criminal underworld. Reggie uses threats to obtain the premature release of his brother, who is rapidly discharged from hospital. At the start of the film, his twin brother Ron is locked up in a psychiatric hospital for insanity and paranoid schizophrenia. In the 1960s, Reggie Kray is a former boxer who has become an important part of the criminal underground in London.
