Scum (1979)
Scum (1979)

Plot.
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Cast & Crew.

Ray Winstone
Carlin

Mick Ford
Archer

Julian Firth
Davis

John Blundell
Banks

Phil Daniels
Richards

John Judd
Mr. Sands

Philip Jackson
Mr Greaves

Peter Howell
Governor

Bill Dean
Mr Duke

John Grillo
Mr Goodyear

P.H. Moriarty
Mr. Hunt

Ray Burdis
Eckersley

Alan Igbon
Meakin

John Fowler
Woods

Jo Kendall
Matron

Alrick Riley
Angel

Sean Chapman
James

Andrew Paul
Betts

Esta Charkham
CastingDirector

Patrick Murray
Dougan

Herbert Norville
Toyne

George Winter
Rhodes

Ray Jewers
PE Teacher

Nigel Humphreys
Taylor

Perry Benson
Formby

Danny John-Jules
Baldy's lookout (uncredited)

Peter Francis
Baldy

Clive Parsons
Producer

Michael Relph
Executive Producer

Don Boyd
Executive Producer

Michael Bradsell
Editor

Davina Belling
Producer

Alan Clarke
Director

Roy Minton
Writer

Phil Meheux
Director of Photography

Mike Porter
Art Direction / Production Design

Debbie Scragg
Makeup Artist

Monica Howe
Wardrobe Master

Judith Lang
Assistant Art Director

Terry Poulton
Sound Editor

David John
Sound Mixer

Tony Message
Sound Effects Editor
Media.














Details.
Release DateSeptember 12, 1979
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 38m
Budget$420,000
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
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. However, owing to the violence depicted, it was withdrawn from broadcast. Two years later, director Alan Clarke and scriptwriter Roy Minton remade it as a film, first shown on Channel 4 in 1983. By this time the borstal system had been reformed. The original TV version was eventually allowed to be aired eight years later in 1991.
The film tells the story of a young offender named Carlin as he arrives at the institution and his rise through violence and self-protection to the top of the inmates' pecking order, purely as a tool to survive. Beyond Carlin's individual storyline, the film also serves as an indictment of the borstal system's flaws, with no attempt at rehabilitation. The warders and convicts alike are brutalised by the system. The film's controversy arose over its graphic depiction of racism, extreme violence, rape, suicide, many fights and very strong language.
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