# Directors: Julian Gilbey
# Classification: 18
# Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment
# DVD Release Date: 26 Dec 2007
# Run Time: 114 minutes

# Actors: Ricci Harnett, Frank Harper, Terry Stone, Roland Manookian, Billy Murray

RISE OF THE FOOTSOLDIER charts the rapid rise of Carlton Leach, from feared football hooligan to him becoming a member of one of the country’s most notorious crime syndicates. Following his life over the course of three decades, the film follows Leach’s career from soccer thug, through a stint as a doorman and his involvement in the early rave scene, right through to his nadir as an integral part of a gang that ruled London and Essex during the late 80s and early 90s and would culminate in the infamous shotgun deaths of three of the firm’s members in Rettendon.

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