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Let Him Have It is a 1991 British drama film directed by Peter Medak and starring Christopher Eccleston, Paul Reynolds, Tom Courtenay and Tom Bell. The film is based on the true story of Derek Bentley , [2] who was convicted of the murder of a police officer by joint enterprise and was hanged in 1953 under controversial circumstances.
Let Him Have It: Directed by Peter Medak. With Tom Courtenay, Eileen Atkins, Rebecca Eccleston, Peter Eccleston. This drama reveals the controversial postwar 1950's London murder trial that sent an intellectually challenged young man to the gallows for a murder he did not commit.
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- Crime, Drama, History
- Peter Medak
- 1992-01
In this fact-based film, British working class teens Derek Bentley (Christopher Eccleston) and Chris Craig (Paul Reynolds) take to behaving like the film noir antiheroes they idolize, and Chris ...
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- Peter Medak
- R
- Christopher Eccleston
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Jan 24, 1992 · Let Him Have It. Two frightened boys are cornered on a rooftop by a policeman. They were trying to break into a building. One of the boys has a gun. The policeman, cool and collected, reaches out a hand and asks the boy to hand the gun over. The other boy says, “Let him have it.”. The boy with the gun pulls the trigger, and the officer ...
Oct 4, 1991 · Robert Wade. Writer. Neal Purvis. Writer. In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the true case which would forever shake England's belief in capital punishment.
Let Him Have It is unabashedly weighted toward the perspective of the murderer as victim -- a notion that does not enjoy much public currency in our more violent times. But if ever there was a ...
