Julian Firth
This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British Borstal for young offenders. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power struggle between the ‘tough’ new inmate and the ‘old hands’. The film was originally made as a BBC play but it was banned before ever being shown.
A young American hustler in Las Vegas spots a rich English Lady. Smitten, he pursues her to England, where his only chance of getting together with her is to enroll in Oxford and join the rowing team.
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
In the late 1960s there were no CCTV or crime scene DNA testing, but disposing of a dead body was still bloody murder.