--- title: 'Scum (1979)' type: 'film' director: 'Alan John Clarke' released: '1979-01-01' runtime_minutes: 97 certification: 'R' genres: - 'Drama' - 'Crime' countries: - 'United Kingdom' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/scum-1979' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079871/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Scum (1979) 1979 · R · 97 min · Drama, Crime · United Kingdom ## Synopsis Scum is a 1979 British prison drama film directed by Alan Clarke and starring Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth and John Blundell. The film portrays the brutality of life inside a British borstal. The script was originally filmed as a television play for the BBC's Play for Today series in 1977. However, owing to the violence depicted, it was withdrawn from broadcast. Two years later, director Alan Clarke and scriptwriter Roy Minton remade it as a film, first shown on Channel 4 in 1983. By this time the borstal system had been reformed. The original TV version was eventually allowed to be aired eight years later in 1991. ## Credits - **Director:** [Alan John Clarke](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-john-clarke) - **Screenplay:** [Roy Minton](https://cinepixo.com/people/roy-minton) - **Producer:** [Don Boyd](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-boyd) ## Cast - [Julian Firth](https://cinepixo.com/people/julian-firth) - [Danny John-Jules](https://cinepixo.com/people/danny-john-jules) - [Mick Ford](https://cinepixo.com/people/mick-ford) - [Phil Daniels](https://cinepixo.com/people/phil-daniels) - [Alan Igbon](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-igbon) - [Philip Jackson](https://cinepixo.com/people/philip-jackson) - [Perry Benson](https://cinepixo.com/people/perry-benson) - [John Blundell](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-blundell) - [Ray Winstone](https://cinepixo.com/people/ray-winstone) - [Ray Burdis](https://cinepixo.com/people/ray-burdis) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/scum-1979 Film facts: Wikidata (Q3476538); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.