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Let Him Have It

6.6 115 mins Drama   1991
Film Trustees Ltd.   British Screen Productions   Canal+   Fine Line Features  
Director(s): Peter Medak

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.

Casts of Let Him Have It

Christopher Eccleston

as Derek Bentley

Paul Reynolds

as Christopher Craig

Tom Courtenay

as William Bentley

Eileen Atkins

as Lilian Bentley

Iain Cuthbertson

as Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe

Tom Bell

as Fairfax

Clive Revill

as Pierrepoint

Clare Holman

as Iris Bentley

Mark McGann

as Niven Craig

Bert Tyler-Moore

as Vincent Montgomery

Jack Deam

as Terry Stringer

Linda Bassett

as Mrs. Miles

Karl Johnson

as Parris

James Villiers

as Cassels

Michael Gough

as Lord Goddard

Bill Dean

as Foreman of the Jury

Edward Hardwicke

as Approved School Principal

Charlie Creed-Miles

as Second Boy in School

Walter Sparrow

as Nightwatchman

Murray Melvin

as Secondary School Teacher

Peter Jonfield

as Butcher

Rudolph Walker

as West Indian Driver

Peter Eyre

as Humphries

Ronald Fraser

as Niven's Judge

Francis Hope

as Big Cecil

Vernon Dobtcheff

as Clerk of Court

Norman Rossington

as Postman

Denny Kirk

as Mr Craig

Lottie Ward

as Mrs Craig

Niven Boyd

as PC McDonald

Robert Morgan

as PC Miles

Steve Nicolson

as PC Harrison

Michael Elphick

as Prison Officer Jack

Jeremy Sinden

as Soames, Daily Telegraph

Gary Everett

as Reporter

Geoffrey Drew

as Prison Chaplain

Viv Warentz

as Petition Woman

James Bowers

as Police Officer

Joan Heal

as Woman in Butcher's Shop

George Christopher Wilson

as Young Man in Cafe

William Waghorn

as Police Desk Sgt

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