Blackberry Films The Englishman And The Mafia

The Englishman and The Mafia

Where gangsters and music collide...rock is born...

Based on a true story. Wilff Pine, a Sixties’ man about town, is hired by Don Arden, Sharon Osbourne’s father, one of the toughest music producers in the game. He soon gets a break managing one of the biggest bands of the time, Black Sabbath. At a chance meeting he is befriended by one of New York’s toughest Mafia families and begins his new life as a go-between and active member of the New York Mafia Scene.

The Team

Producers David Fairman (Cold Fish, Lighthouse Hill, Messages, Carmen's Kiss) Barbara Gorna (Silent Voices, Messages, Carmen's Kiss, The Messiah Code)

Director David Fairman

Writers Based on the book by John Pearson (The Cult Of Violence : The Untold Story Of The Krays,

The Gamblers, One of the Family, James Bond: The Authorised Biography)

Exec Producers Mark Westaway, Dan Cassidy