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This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British borstal for young offenders. Luckily the regime has changed since this TV film was made...
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| Alan Clarke | |||
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| Roy Minton | ||
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| Margaret Matheson | .... | producer | |
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| John Wyatt | (photography) | ||
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| Ken Pearce | |||
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| Anthony C. Thorpe | (as Tony Thorpe) | ||
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| Roger Reece | |||
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| Marion Richards | .... | makeup artist | |
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| Ron Edmonds | .... | dubbing mixer | |
| Michael Turner | .... | film recordist | |
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| Ray Jewers | .... | fight arranger | |
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| Chris Cherry | .... | production team (as Christopher Cherry) | |
| Keith Evans | .... | production team | |
| Guy Halifax | .... | production team (as Guy Hallifax) | |
| Jennifer Hammond | .... | production team | |
| Michael Jackley | .... | production team | |
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In the Roy Minton original Play of Scum, he had the Carlin character as a Glaswegian. He had Ray Winstone in both the TV and Cinema release for his way in which he "walked".See more »
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Referenced in Scum EPK Interviews with Clive Parsons & Roy Minton (1999) (TV)See more »
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I'll try not to comment on the controversy of this television drama . Everyone knows it was banned by the BBC prior to being shown on its PLAY FOR TODAY slot in 1977 and it wasn't until the early 1990s that the BBC relented by showing it with little fanfare .
Over all I thought the film version was better . Structure wise Roy Minton's script is more or less the same as the movie version with one added strand here where Carling is allowed to have a " wife " , in reality one of the younger prisoners , as a perk for being a daddy , a story strand that doesn't really work in my opinion . Director Alan Clarke would later re-employ nearly the entire cast for the movie version with the exception of Archer , and I couldn't thinking while watching the movie that Archer was written as a type of hippy . Here David Throfall plays Archer as .... A hippy . I don't want to criticise Mick Ford's performance in the movie but here we see the role played as it was written and is the superior version , but this is the only aspect where the original teleplay out scores the movie
I think because the movie version can get away with so much more than a television drama ( At least one made in the 1970s ) this version isn't so gritty and compelling . The film includes extreme language in every scene which adds to the realism and as has been mentioned the infamous rape scene isn't as shocking and depressing as the one in the movie version so compared to the 1979 cinema release the original television drama might be something of a disappointment leading the viewer to ask what was the controversy about in the first place ?