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I wish i had a claim to fame like this. IO live next to a noisy student and a road. How i wish for someone famous to live near me. Sigh......

I wouldn't have thought a £30k a week footballer would live in Orrell park my self either :lol:

I'll try and find it somewhere Ray (y)
 
You have to watch the film to understand what happened to these kids. Yes De Niro was class in this film too. It stirs up a lot of emotions but its well made and well acted.

Ok .....I suppose it's worth a go....De Niro is a legend, most of his films are the dogs IMO. Its just the kids n stuff, but I can see it making people more aware n educated on such matters.(y):dodgy:
 
Ok .....I suppose it's worth a go....De Niro is a legend, most of his films are the dogs IMO. Its just the kids n stuff, but I can see it making people more aware n educated on such matters.(y):dodgy:

You dont see anything graphic mate. Its left to the imagination. If its any concilation you'd fell better at the end.
 
Ok .....I suppose it's worth a go....De Niro is a legend, most of his films are the dogs IMO. Its just the kids n stuff, but I can see it making people more aware n educated on such matters.(y):dodgy:


On the surface, this is a story about justified revenge. Dig a little deeper and it gets complicated. The two defendants who shot kevin bacon have become professional mobsters and killers. After their trial, they go back to killing. De Niro as a priest who defends them knows what they did and what they are So the film tries to justify their revenge with a "cosa nostra" version of honour
 

there are a couple of scenes where you know pretty much what is going on.

but it's a film for adults to make their own mind up. in my view it was memorable in that it was an important film and quite different to films i'd seen up till then.
 
That's about the shooting of a policeman? 2 lads ...1 was hanged? (Bentley) or have I completly got the wrong film?:dodgy:

Thats the one. Bentley was pardoned a few years ago because of that film. Shame that they hung him for it as he wasnt of sound mind but he was harmless.
 
Wasn't it argued that "let him have it" referred to the lad telling the other to give the copper the gun. The other lad wasn't hanged because he was to young.
 
Wasn't it argued that "let him have it" referred to the lad telling the other to give the copper the gun. The other lad wasn't hanged because he was to young.

Thats right. He was tracked down a couple of years ago but still wouldnt talk about it. I think it happened in the early 50's.
 

Here we go...

The title of the film is taken from Bentley's alleged cry of "Let him have it, Chris!" shortly before Christopher Craig shot PC Miles. Crown prosecutors suggested that Bentley meant, "Go ahead and shoot him," while the defence argued that he meant, "Give him the gun" which he in fact meant (and thus, surrender). Despite what the film showed, a police officer dying from cancer stated that Derek Bentley never said the infamous phrase. If this is the case, it is widely believed that the reason the police attributed the quote to Bentley is that there was a similar case where someone had said "Let him have it!" and it was still fresh in the police officers' minds.

Craig was sentenced to gaol At Her Majesty's Pleasure, but only spent ten years there. He has been a law abiding citizen ever since.

Derek Bentley's father bought an expensive bottle of wine in 1958 to celebrate their victory in proving that he was innocent. Sadly however, Bentley's parents never got to drink it. His father William Bentley died on 12 July 1974 and his mother died on 10 October 1976.

The film's end titles state that Bentley's sister Iris was still fighting for his pardon, however seven years after the film was made and after numerous unsuccessful campaigns to get Derek Bentley a full pardon, he was posthumously pardoned on 30 July 1998. However, Bentley's sister had also died by this point [2]
 

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