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About Scum
Scum is a 1979 British prison drama film directed by Alan Clarke and starring Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth and John Blundell. The film portrays the brutality of life inside a British borstal. The script was originally filmed as a television play for the BBC's Play for Today series in 1977. However, owing to the violence depicted, it was withdrawn from broadcast. Two years later, director Alan Clarke and scriptwriter Roy Minton remade it as a theatrical film. Channel 4 first broadcast the film in 1983. By this time, the borstal system had been reformed. The original television version was first broadcast on 27 July 1991, fourteen years after it was made.
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