Scum
by Alan Clarke
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Actor: John Blundell, Julian Firth, Mick Ford, Phil Daniels, Ray WinstoneDirector: Alan Clarke
Brand: Ryko Distribution
Cinematographer: Phil Meheux
Producer: Clive Parsons
Producer: Davina Belling
Producer: Don Boyd
Producer: Martin Campbell
Producer: Michael Relph
Writer: Roy Minton
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Limited Edition, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-02-28
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Blue Underground
Movie Reviews of Scum
Movie Review: Scum
Summary: 1 Stars
This film is appropriately titled, because that's all it is. Absolute trash. I couldn't look myself in the eyes in the mirror for a week, knowing that I actually paid for such waste. The description for this movie is completely innacurate, and I'm absolutely perplexed as to why the British Broadcast Corporation would ban this. I wish that I could meet the director of this defilement of cinema, simply to spit in his face and demand my hard-earned money back.
Reading this, I am absolutely sure that Amazon will not post this review, and it is likely the first and last time that you will ask me to post a review. But it is good to let you know that I just paid you for absolute putrescence.
Aside from this purchase, and other than the order that I have been waiting almost one year for, all of my other orders have come in a timely fashion and have proved quite enjoyable for me. Thank you.
Summary of Scum
THE FILM THEY COULD NOT BAN!In the late '70s, director Alan Clarke was hired by the BBC to make a television drama about life inside a juvenile detention center. The program was so relentlessly brutal that the horrified network banned its broadcast forever. In defiance, Clarke and producer Clive Parsons remade the film as an even more uncompromising theatrical feature. Ray Winstone (SEXY BEAST) stars as Carlin, a young thug rising to the top of an inhuman prison hierarchy amidst violence, vengeance and sexual assualt. This is the grim and graphic indictment of the British borstal system that outraged a nation and shocked audiences worldwide. This is SCUM.
Phil Daniels (QUADROPHENIA) co-stars in this infamous and unforgettable shocker, now fully restored from original UK master materials and featuring a candid new audio commentary by Ray Winstone.
2-Disc Limited Edition - Includes the Original Banned BBC Version!
The son of a bricklayer who also spent some time as a laborer before studying acting and directing in Canada, Alan Clarke (who died in 1990) got his start at the BBC in the 1960s. By 1977, he had directed his explosive and controversial television feature, Scum, starring Ray Winstone (Sexy Beast) as a survivor at a corrupt and brutal juvenile prison. Harrowing, claustrophobic, and deeply tragic, Scum was banned by the BBC for graphic brutality (and, quite likely, criticism of the justice system), leading Clarke to remake it with Winstone and the same script as a 1979 theatrical release. Both versions are included on this disc, and each is a unique experience. The earlier Scum is a lean, low-budget, relentlessly nightmarish drama while its second take is moodier, slower, and intermittently shocking. --Tom Keogh
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