''24 Hours in London'' is a 2000 British

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directed by

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and starring

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and Anjela Lauren Smith. The film takes place in

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in the year 2009.

Plot

Crime lord Christian controls the streets of London. He decides to exterminate a rival gang but leaves a witness in the process. Martha, the witness, is being protected by the police but Christian's gang is unstoppable. After her near-death experience in the police station, she is moved to another location to meet up with undercover officers, but the officer she meets is actually a criminal impersonating the officer that he and his accomplice have just harvested organs from. At the end, as Christian is dying in a hotel room, we learn that the protagonist is actually a mole for Christian and that one of Christian's thugs is romantically involved with Martha. It turns out that Martha and her lover Tony hired the organ harvesters who are caught up in the middle, Christian is dead, the good/bad cop is left to die, and the organ harvesters and the con couple (Martha and Tony) leave. After their departure, the police force enters the room and the commissioner gives a nod signaling them to leave.

Cast

as Christian * Tony London as Leon * David Sonnethal as Bubbles Healy *

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as Simone * Luke Garrett as Richard *

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as Antonia *Anjela Lauren Smith as Martha *

John Sharian John Sharian (born John Shahnazarian) is an English actor of Armenian descent. He appeared in the film '' The Machinist'' (2004). Education John Sharian attended the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut and later the Kenyon College in Gambier ...

as Tony *

Lorelei King Lorelei King is an American actress, screenwriter and development executive who has been based in the United Kingdom since 1981. She has narrated audiobooks, acted in radio plays for BBC Radio 4 and appeared on television. Early life King spe ...

as Lloyd *Sean Francis as Samuel * Katia Caballero as Michelle * Richard Graham as Novell * Morgan Jones as Sean * Jeremy Beckman as Floyd * Olegario Fedoro as Mobster Koloshnakov

References

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