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Let Him Have It is equal parts legal drama and character study, and is led by an understated but thoughtful performance from Eccleston as Bentley, a murder suspect with diminished capabilities. However, Eccleston does appear slightly too old to play the 18-year-old Bentley, and like a lot of movies based on real events, the plot is slowed by ...
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 ...
In one tragic moment, two lives are destroyed in this riveting, true exploration of a dark moment in the British legal system: "Let Him Have It." With those words uttered by a friend, a mentally handicapped young man shoots a policeman. But did the friend mean for him to hand over the gun or commit murder?
Dec 13, 2005 · Let Him Have it, on all levels, is a film. Based on a true story, and set in 1950s England, Let Him Have It tells of Derek Bentley, a young man with learning disabilities, who falls in with the wrong crowd and becomes involved in more and more serious crimes. One night, he is out with a friend who points a loaded gun at a police officer.
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This review contains what may be considered as SPOILERS by those who do not know the true story on which this film is based. Derek Bentley was one of the most unfortunate men to suffer the death penalty in Britain. He was mentally sub-normal, he didn't kill anyone personally and even his fatal cry to his accomplice, Christopher Craig, echoed in ...
Let Him Have It. 1991. 1 hr 55 mins. Drama. R. Watchlist. Fact-based story set in 1952 London about a mentally handicapped epileptic (Chris Eccleston) sentenced to death for a killing committed by ...
