Directed by:
Alan ClarkeScreenplay:
Roy MintonCinematography:
Phil MéheuxCast:
Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth, Ray Burdis, Philip Jackson, Danny John-Jules, Perry Benson, P. H. Moriarty, Phil Daniels, Sean Chapman, Patrick Murray (more)Plots(1)
In the late '70s, director Alan Clarke was hired by the BBC to make a television drama about life inside a juvenile detention centre. The programme 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 stars as Carlin, a young thug rising to the top of an inhuman prison hierarchy amidst violence, vengeance and sexual assault. This is the grim and graphic indictment of the British borstal system that outraged a nation and shocked audiences worldwide. This is Scum. (Shock Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Ray Winstone
UK
Best movies:
Robin Hood and the Sorcerer (1983) (TV movie)
The Departed (2006)
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
Mick Ford
UK
Best movies:
Scum (1979)
A Woman of Substance (1984) (TV movie)
How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
Julian Firth
UK
Best movies:
Prime Suspect (1991) (TV movie)
John Adams (2008) (series)
Ripper Street (2012) (series)
Ray Burdis
UK
Best movies:
Gandhi (1982)
Scum (1979)
Death Machine (1994)
Philip Jackson
UK
Best movies:
Robin Hood and the Sorcerer (1983) (TV movie)
The Best Offer (2013)
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
Danny John-Jules
UK
Best movies:
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
The Whistleblower (2010)
Scum (1979)
Perry Benson
Best movies:
Much Ado About Nothing (1984) (TV movie)
This Is England (2006)
Scum (1979)
P. H. Moriarty
UK
Best movies:
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Chaplin (1992)
Quadrophenia (1979)
Phil Daniels
UK
Best movies:
The Best of Blur (2000) (video compilation)
Endeavour (2012) (series)
The Long Firm (2004) (TV movie)
Sean Chapman
UK
Best movies:
Cadfael (1994) (series)
Scum (1979)
Eat the Rich (1987)
Patrick Murray
UK
Best movies:
Florence Nightingale (1985) (TV movie)
Scum (1979)
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
Bill Dean
UK
Best movies:
John Grillo
UK
Best movies:
King Lear (1983) (TV movie)
Brazil (1985)
Shackleton (2002) (TV movie)
Charles Rayford
Best movies:
A Night to Remember (1958)
Scum (1979)
Repulsion (1965)
Ray Jewers
Best movies:
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Scum (1979)
Herbert Norville
UK
Best movies:
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Scum (1979)
Bugsy Malone (1976)
Peter Howell
UK
Best movies:
Perfect Strangers (2001) (series)
Shadowlands (1993)
Our Mutual Friend (1998) (series)
John Blundell
Best movies:
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time (1999)
Quadrophenia (1979)
Nil by Mouth (1997)
Jo Kendall
UK
Best movies:
The Remains of the Day (1993)
Scum (1979)
Howards End (1992)