Scum
This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British Borstal for young offenders. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power struggle between the 'tough' new inmate and the 'old hands'. This film is a re-make, by the same director and writer, of a 1977 BBC teleplay banned before broadcast [see Scum (1991)].
Released: 1979
Casts:
Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth, John Blundell, Phil Daniels, John Judd, Philip Jackson, Peter Howell, John Grillo, Ray Burdis, Alan Igbon, Bill Dean, John Fowler, Jo Kendall, Alrick Riley, Sean Chapman, Andrew Paul, Patrick Murray, Herbert Norville, George Winter, Nigel Humphreys, Perry Benson, Peter Francis, P.H. Moriarty