Doherty, who starred as Anne in The Crown, turns her talents to Mary Carr, the leader of the notorious all-women gang the Forty Elephants in A Thousand Blows.

They're the Forty Elephants, a real gang led by the charismatic Mary Carr (Erin Doherty), who pilfer the prized possessions of the upper classes by the pocketful. "I wanted for a long time to do the ...

In A Thousand Blows, the Forty Elephants are depicted as a rag-tag band of female thieves and criminals. They orchestrate distractions to pickpocket wealthy pedestrians, they storm into and rob ...