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McVicar is a British drama film released in 1980 by The Who Films, Ltd., starring Roger Daltrey of the Who playing the 1960s armed robber and later writer John McVicar . The film was directed by Tom Clegg, and was based on the non-fiction book McVicar by Himself, which McVicar wrote to describe several months of his experiences in prison.
McVicar: Directed by Tom Clegg. With Roger Daltrey, Adam Faith, Cheryl Campbell, Billy Murray. John McVicar was a notorious London criminal known as "Public Enemy No. 1" for armed bank robberies.
McVicar was born in London on 21 March 1940. [1] The son of shopkeepers, George and Diane McVicar, in 1965 he fathered a son, Russell, conceived with his girlfriend, Shirley Wilshire, while he was on the run from HMP Parkhurst. Shirley and McVicar married in 1972, but she divorced him before his final release from prison in 1978. [5]
John McVicar (Roger Daltrey) is an English career criminal locked up with all the other lifers in the dreaded E Wing of Durham Prison. Between riots and constant prison guard brutality, McVicar ...
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McVicar is a British drama film released in 1980 by The Who Films, Ltd., starring Roger Daltrey of the Who playing the 1960s armed robber and later writer John McVicar. The film was directed by Tom Clegg, and was based on the non-fiction book McVicar by Himself, which McVicar wrote to describe several months of his experiences in prison. Bill Curbishley and Roy Baird acted as producers, and ...
McVicar. 1980. 1 hr 51 mins. Drama. R. Watchlist. Rocker Roger Daltrey gives a strong performance in this gritty, fact-based story about John McVicar, England's "Public Enemy Number One," who ...
John McVicar is a tough uncompromising armed robber, after being sent to a maximum security prison for 23 years he dreams of escaping every day. As his reputation grows and friendships are formed, it would appear that his friend Wally Probyn may have figured a way out of this tough rigid prison.
