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    Let Him Have It

    R1992 · Crime drama · 1h 59m

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  1. 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.

    • (3.7K)
    • Crime, Drama, History
    • Peter Medak
    • 1992-01
  2. 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
  3. Jan 24, 1992 · “Let Him Have It” is about a gentle youth, mentally subnormal, who falls in with a crowd of boys he admires, and is badgered by one of them into going along on a break-in. Derek Bentley is played by Chris Eccleston as a likable teenager, inoffensive, fond of his family, able to deal with life in its ordinary aspects, but incapable of ...

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  5. 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.

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    • 1991
    • R
    • Peter Medak
  6. Oct 4, 1991 · Overview. 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. Peter Medak. Director. Robert Wade.

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  7. Let Him Have It takes one of the most controversial murder trials in postwar Brit history and comes up with a powerful mix of social conscience and solid entertainment. Full...

  8. Sep 10, 2012 · Nearly 40 years after his execution, the case of Derek Bentley - backward, epileptic, and hanged for a shooting committed by someone else - looks unlikely to be shut away in the drawer of...

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