The Forty Elephants also reportedly blackmailed men by falsely accusing them of rape, which A Thousand Blows didn't delve into (via BBC). It also seems that A Thousand Blows completely fabricated ...

About how long “A Thousand Blows” could last, Knight said, “The strange truth is that there was still a Forty Elephants gang in London in the 1950s. That’s just extraordinary that they ...

The Forty Elephants’ last big year was 1939, before the country was plunged into war. There were some flurries of activity later, but the phenomenon had largely faded after the death of Alice ...

Meet the Forty Elephants gang in brand new look at Steven Knight's A Thousand Blows The 6-episode season premieres February 21 on Hulu.

A Thousand Blows will focus on a different real-life historically reigning gang, the Forty Elephants, as well as the world of underground boxing in 1880s Victorian London.

From its opening moments, when Mary Carr and her Forty Elephants learn the priceless silver they stole from the Queen of England and the Emperor of China was just silver-plated junk, to its ...

Forty Elephants follows a group of female pickpockets in a dual-timeline comedy about the power of love, the social diminution of women, and the biggest score they can fit in their pockets.