Scum
by Alan Clarke
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Actor: John Blundell, Julian Firth, Mick Ford, Phil Daniels, Ray WinstoneDirector: Alan Clarke
Brand: Ryko Distribution
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: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-02-28
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Blue Underground
Movie Reviews of Scum
Movie Review: Haunting
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD was the last of my short lived fascination with British crime. In "Scum" we got to see some of the English Youth Correctional system in action. Apparently this movie was so controversial that it was banned for life by the BBC. It is disturbing but not nearly as haunting as the American version "Bad Boys" starring Sean Penn. Yes us Yanks tend to make things better (or worse depending on who you talk to!) We do take things to the extreme, but this film is already out there.
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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