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Scum is a 1979 British prison drama film directed by Alan Clarke and starring Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth and John Blundell. The film portrays the brutality of life inside a British borstal. The script was originally filmed as a television play for the BBC's Play for Today series in 1977.
Jul 6, 2017 · Ray Winstone stars in a restored version of British director Alan Clarke's violent, controversial 1979 tale about a young man in a detention center.
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Feb 17, 2023 · I look at some of the differences between the movie Scum 1979 and the original BBC Play for today from 1977 📺🎞️
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Jun 26, 2019 · Scum at 40: still the daddy Alan Clarke’s borstal drama will have done 40 years come September. We explore how the film – an indictment of the Thatcher government’s treatment of young inmates – swerved classism, Mary Whitehouse and a nervy BBC to become a hard-hitting classic.
Sep 28, 1979 · Scum: Directed by Alan Clarke. With Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth, John Blundell. An uncompromising story of life in a British juvenile offender institution in the '70s.
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Jul 15, 2009 · When Carlin (Ray Winstone) is sent to a Borstal young offenders institute carrying a hard man reputation he is pushed to the limit by wild inmates and cruel officers to uphold it. In this brutal...
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Perverse conditions within a British reform school reach a boiling point. The visual equivalent of spare, brilliant prose that occasionally bleeds (and bleeds and bleeds) into poetry. It's a film...
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