A Thousand Blows

Warning!

Shockingly, the show got quite a bit about the Forty Elephants right.

Though they’re a quite egalitarian gang, Mary Carr was the undisputed leader of the Forty Elephants.

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Just as the Forty Elephants were real, many of thecharacters inA Thousand Blowswere also real.

There were still people who identified themselves as Forty Elephants in the 1950s.

The truth and reality are much more interesting than anything it’s possible for you to invent."

Mary Carr (Erin Doherty) and Alice Diamond (Darci Shaw) in A Thousand Blows

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Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby holding a gun in Peaky Blinders

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Real life members of the Forty Elephants

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Mary Carr (Erin Doherty) in A Thousand Blows season 1, episode 3

Headshot Of Stephen Graham In The British Independent Film Awards in London

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A Thousand Blows