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In 1976, the BBC commissioned a television drama, Scum, about a borstal, from a script by Roy Minton, to be directed by Alan Clarke. However, the completed film was deemed too shocking by the BBC and was subsequently shelved. In 1979, a new version of Scum, again written by Minton and directed by Clarke, was released as a feature film which followed the incarceration of young offenders including Carlin (Ray Winstone), Banks (John Blundell) and Richards (Phil Daniels) within a borstal.
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J. Dawson, ‘Review of Scum,’ Monthly Film Bulletin, Volume 46, Number 548 (1979), pp. 201–202.
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Barber, S. (2013). Scum: Institutional Control and Patriarchy. In: The British Film Industry in the 1970s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137305923_13
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