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Writer:
Roy Minton (writer)
Release Date:
2 May 1980 (Netherlands)
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Tagline:
The film they tried to ban! A brutal story of today. more
Plot:
This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British Borstal for young offenders. Luckily the regime has changed since this film was made...
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Gay Interest
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Male Rape
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Rape
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Greenhouse
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(3 articles)
Alex’s Review: The Firm
(From FilmShaft.com. 1 September 2009, 10:47 PM, PDT)
British Producer Parsons Dies
(From WENN. 21 August 2009, 12:06 PM, PDT)
(From FilmShaft.com. 1 September 2009, 10:47 PM, PDT)
British Producer Parsons Dies
(From WENN. 21 August 2009, 12:06 PM, PDT)
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Truly disturbing
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Ray Winstone | ... | Carlin |
 | Mick Ford | ... | Archer |
| Julian Firth | ... | Davis |
 | John Blundell | ... | Banks |
 | Phil Daniels | ... | Richards |
| John Judd | ... | Mr Sands |
 | Philip Jackson | ... | Greaves |
| Peter Howell | ... | Governor |
| John Grillo | ... | Goodyear |
| Ray Burdis | ... | Eckersley |
| Alan Igbon | ... | Meakin |
| John Fowler | ... | Woods |
| Bill Dean | ... | Duke |
| P.H. Moriarty | ... | Hunt |
| Nigel Humphreys | ... | Taylor |
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Runtime:
98 min
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Colour (Eastmancolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:16 |
Germany:16 (re-rating) (2006) |
West Germany:18 (original rating) |
Sweden:15 |
Australia:R |
Finland:K-16 |
New Zealand:R18 |
Norway:18 (1980) |
UK:18 (video rating) |
USA:R
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The film has no music score.
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Factual errors: All Borstal inmates were subject to the same mandatory haircut of short back and sides, yet a vast array of hairstyles are shown throughout the film, including afros.
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Featured in Scum EPK Interviews with Clive Parsons & Roy Minton (1999) (TV)
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Be warned that you should go into this film with your guard up. By the time the final scene has faded quietly out, you will probably be in a state of shock.
The film details life in a Borstal institution and the violence and racial hatred that runs rampant through both the prisoners and their wardens. There is nothing cheery here at all and that is precisely the point. Director Alan Clarke deliberately films with a documentary style and it is this realism that makes the film so shattering. Scenes of sexual and racial abuse are placed in front of the camera and no raw nerve is spared the touch of the film.
It should be shown to youngsters as a reason not to turn to crime.