“The punitive system does not work.” By the time those words are spoken in Alan Clarke’s devastating 1979 film, “Scum,” the viewer will scarcely be in need of further persuasion. A ferocious exposé of ...
Alan Clarke’s once-banned, twice-filmed Brit scandal, Scum, stands as one of the great films about boys and violence, about the allure and horror and inevitability of young toughs seizing power by ...
Ray Winstone, right, and Phil Daniels in Scum, the controversial 1979 depiction of borstal life Credit: Photo: AKG Images I was kicked out of drama school in 1976, aged 18, for vandalising the ...
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