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08-11-2007, 09:13 PM
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What version is it? The later film version or the original CH4 version where Carling has his own prison bitch and which funnily enough,Ray Winstone never talks about 
08-11-2007, 11:58 PM
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Just don't go near the greenhouse!!!
(if you don't already know where it is) LOL
08-11-2007, 11:59 PM
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Wellingborough - just down the road from Rushden..
Was chatting about films to my hairdresser, and she says there's this film that always makes me cry.......then she says SCUM, the bit in the greenhouse
Was chatting about films to my hairdresser, and she says there's this film that always makes me cry.......then she says SCUM, the bit in the greenhouse
09-11-2007, 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Amazon.com
The son of a bricklayer who also spent some time as a laborer before studying acting and directing in Canada, Alan Clarke (who died in 1990) got his start at the BBC in the 1960s. By 1977, he had directed his explosive and controversial television feature, Scum, starring Ray Winstone (Sexy Beast) as a survivor at a corrupt and brutal juvenile prison. Harrowing, claustrophobic, and deeply tragic, Scum was banned by the BBC for graphic brutality (and, quite likely, criticism of the justice system), leading Clarke to remake it with Winstone and the same script as a 1979 theatrical release. Both versions are included on this disc, and each is a unique experience. The earlier Scum is a lean, low-budget, relentlessly nightmarish drama while its second take is moodier, slower, and intermittently shocking.
Originally Posted by Wikipedia
The story was originally made for the BBC's Play for Today strand in 1977 but was not shown at the time, although the BBC version has been broadcast since. Two years later director Alan Clarke and scriptwriter Roy Minton remade it as a film, which was then shown on Channel 4 in 1983, by which time the borstal system had been abolished (the British "public morality" campaigner Mary Whitehouse initially won her court case against Channel 4 for showing the film, but Channel 4 later won on appeal). The original BBC production differed slightly from the remade one. Aside from one or two differences in the cast (Mick Ford and Julian Firth did not play their major supporting roles in the 1977 play, for example - these parts were played by David Threlfall and Martin Philips), the main difference was in a homosexual relationship between Carlin and another inmate, which was in the BBC version but dropped from the later film. Minton later said that this was a pity because it would have expanded Carlin's character and made him vulnerable in an area where he could not afford to be vulnerable.
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