Christopher Eccleston
Derek Bentley
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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.
- (3.8K)
- Crime, Drama, History
- Peter Medak
- 1992-01
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 ...
Let Him Have It. NEW. 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 ...
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- Peter Medak
- R
- Christopher Eccleston
Synopsis. 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.
- (33)
- Peter Medak
- R
- 16
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Oct 4, 1991 · 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.
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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?
