Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "borstal"

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Scum **** (1979, Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth, Phil Daniels) – Classic Movie Review 7784

Writer Roy Minton’s scalding 1977 TV play Scum about life in a boys’ prison for juvenile offenders was made by the BBC but then banned by them, so its director Alan Clarke made this controversial 1979 […]

Nov, 13

Boys in Brown *** (1949, Jack Warner, Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde, Jimmy Hanley, Barbara Murray, Michael Medwin, Alfie Bass, Thora Hird, Patrick Holt) – Classic Movie Review 7783

Writer-director Montgomery Tully’s 1949 British drama Boys in Brown is a sincere though none too realistic British Borstal reform-school melodrama, with gem-shop raider Jackie Knowles (Richard Attenborough), Bill Foster (Jimmy Hanley), Alf ‘Sparrow’ Thompson (Michael […]

Nov, 13

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