Scum (film)

Scum is a 1979 British crime drama film directed by Alan Clarke, portraying the brutality of life inside a British borstal. The script was originally made for the BBCs Play for Today strand in 1977, however due to the violence depicted, it was withdrawn from broadcast. Two years later, director Alan Clarke and scriptwriter Roy Minton remade it as a film, first shown on Channelin 1983. By this time the borstal system had been reformed and eventually allowed the original TV version to be aired.

Three young men arrive at Borstal by prison van Carlin, who has taken the blame for his brothers theft of scrap metal Angel for stealing a car and Davis, sent here after escaping from an open institution. All three are allocated to their rooms Angel and Davis sent to private rooms, and Carlin sent to a dormitory.Carlin wants to keep a low profile, having been transferred for assaulting a warder. He meets and befriends Archer, an eccentric and intellectual inmate intent on using nonviolent means to cause as much of a nuisance to the staff as possible, and is informed his reputation is already known Banks, the current Daddy the inmate who runs the Borstal is seeking Carlin for a fight. ........

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