Daddy Collection, The - Scum / Births, Marriages And Deaths / Last Orders

Image Not Available Director: Adrian Shergold, Alan Clarke, Fred Schepisi Dvd Release: 3rd November, 2003 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Scum is a film made in 1979 portraying the brutality of life inside a British borstal. Directed by Alan Clarke & starring Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Martin Philips, Davidson Knight, John Blundell & Phil Daniels, it tells the story of a young offender named Carlin as he arrives at the institution & his swift rise to become The Daddy. The film is critical of the borstal system & caused much controversy when first shown. Some felt it should be banned, while others felt that it should be required viewing. The film is violent, with a vicious male rape scene that leads to the suicide of the victim. The warders & convicts alike are brutalised by the system. There is no attempt at rehabilitation, the inmates are simply locked away & left to their own devices. The story was originally made for the BBC s Play for Today strand in 1977 but was not shown at the time, although the BBC version has been broadcast since. Two years later director Alan Clarke & scriptwriter Roy Minton remade it as a film, which was then shown on Channel 4 in 1983, by which time the borstal system had been abolished.

Alan Clarke was a film director, producer & writer, born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England. Much of Clarkes output was for television rather than cinema & featured from 1969 onwards in The Wednesday Play & Play for Today. His subject matter tended towards social realism, especially with respect to deprived or oppressed communities. A number of his works achieved notoriety & widespread criticism from the more reactionary end of the media spectrum; such as Scum, dealing with the subject of Borstals - youth prisons. Posters Of The Firm

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