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.
10-04-1991
1h 55m
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Main Cast
Movie Details
Production Info
Director:
Peter Medak
Writers:
Robert Wade, Neal Purvis
Production:
Film Trustees Ltd., British Screen Productions, Canal+, Fine Line Features
Revenue:
$635,064
Budget:
$3,735,600
Key Crew
Stunts:
Greg Powell
Original Music Composer:
Michael Kamen
Producer:
Robert Warr
Producer:
Luc Roeg
Executive Producer:
Jeremy Thomas
Locations and Languages
Country:
GB
Filming:
GB
Languages:
en
Main Cast
Christopher Eccleston
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Bert Tyler-Moore (born 7 July 1963) is a British TV comedy writer. With his writing partner George Jeffrie he created and wrote the popular Channel 4 series Star Stories (2006–2008), Pete versus Life (2010–2011), and The Windsors (2016–present ).
After graduating from the University of Bath in 1984,Tyler-Moore wrote and performed with the sketch trio On the Grapevine before becoming a stand-up comedian on the alternative comedy circuit. Between 1995 and 1996 he co-presented the BBC2 magazine show Gaytime TV.
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Jeffrie died of a sudden heart attack in September 2020.Tyler-Moore and Jeffrie's last work together was the stage version of the Windsors – The Windsors Endgame – which ran at the Prince of Wales theatre in London for ten weeks in 2021. Since then Tyler-Moore has written for the 2020 relaunch of Spitting Image.
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Dobtcheff was born in Nîmes, France, to a British mother (Vernon) and a father of Bulgarian descent (Dobtcheff). He attended Ascham Preparatory School in Eastbourne, Sussex, England, in the 1940s, where he won the Acting Cup. One of his many television roles was as the Chief Scientist in the Doctor Who story The War Games in 1969.
In his 2006 memoir Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, British actor Rupert Everett describes an encounter with Dobtcheff on the boat train to Paris, and reveals his extraordinary reputation as the "patron saint" of the acting profession, stating that Dobtcheff "was legendary not so much for his acting as for his magical ability to catch every first night in the country". Widely travelled and prone to pop up in the most unlikely of locales, if unable to attend an opening night, Dobtcheff will still endeavour to send the cast a card wishing the production good luck.
Dobtcheff is set to appear in the upcoming Doctor Who audio drama The Children of Seth where he'll be playing the role of Shamur, set for release in December 2011.
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Norman Rossington (December 24, 1928 - May 21, 1999) was an English actor best remembered for his roles in The Army Game, the Carry On films and the Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night.
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Michael John Elphick (19 September 1946 – 7 September 2002) was an English actor. Elphick was known in the UK for his trademark croaky voice and his work on British television, in particular his roles as the eponymous private investigator in the ITV series Boon and later Harry Slater in BBC's EastEnders.
Elphick struggled with a highly publicised addiction to alcohol; at the height of his problem he admitted to consuming two litres of spirits a day, which contributed towards his death from a heart attack in 2002.
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