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  • An uncompromising story of life in a British juvenile offender institution in the 70's.
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  • @controloz3310
    @controloz3310 ปีที่แล้ว +268

    One of those cutting edge English ones that are often forgotten, thankfully right here on TH-cam where they deserve to be kept alive and relived. Fantastic film.

    • @josiewallace7968
      @josiewallace7968 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Who bummed Davis in the greenhouse and why did they do it

    • @AANDYist
      @AANDYist 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      it was an awful film that liked when kids cos a bit of scrapping in it.

  • @jasonoreilly389
    @jasonoreilly389 3 ปีที่แล้ว +187

    The davis scene in bed always sticks with me, and the fact they stick together after and refuse to eat is amazing, this film is so gritty, love it

    • @johnLennon255
      @johnLennon255 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Even the ass holes that raped davis joined in like if it wasnt their faults

    • @-chris1965
      @-chris1965 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I never watch that bit.

    • @cretekastos6903
      @cretekastos6903 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Jamie Coulson your poor wife.

    • @jayddt4183
      @jayddt4183 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@johnLennon255 Yeah never understood that part? I remember catching that years ago and thinking “hang on what have you got to feel angry about? You just took turns bumming him?!”

    • @JDT-vk4kn
      @JDT-vk4kn 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jayddt4183🐐 comment

  • @chrisinfidel
    @chrisinfidel ปีที่แล้ว +139

    To all, "absent and departed friends" murdered by the system, Bless you all. RIP

    • @fairytaleandfablebooks
      @fairytaleandfablebooks 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Our thoughts and prayers are with you.

    • @tru2harris998
      @tru2harris998 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      WELL SAID. THANKYOU FOR SAYING THIS. 😢

  • @amarok5048
    @amarok5048 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    Watched some of this filmed on set. It was shot in Shenley Hospital, Radlett (much of it in Villa 21). I was a student nurse from 76 to 80. Had a fair few bevvies with these lads at our social club and a few meals in the hospital canteen. Lovely bunch of guys! Happy days!

    • @Webzeey
      @Webzeey 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That’s really interesting since I live in shenley by the old water tower ( now housing development ). I’m not sure where villa 21 would be or if it’s still standing.

    • @bowjana8128
      @bowjana8128 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Is it still there

    • @Webzeey
      @Webzeey หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@bowjana8128 not too sure specifically but a lot of the buildings are the same as the ones used in the hospital just renovated into housing. there’s a scene in this where you can see the big tower which is still standing and are now apartments.

  • @redled2677
    @redled2677 3 ปีที่แล้ว +337

    I recall a great (true)story from this period:
    Two months after Scum had been on release in the Cinemas, Ray Winstone went into London`s West End for
    an old schoolfriends birthday drinks. He managed to drag himself away to catch the last Tube home. Three
    stops from Ray`s destination; Ray Winstone said : " The biggest black guy you ever saw got on, sat down
    opposite me, and just sat there, starin` at me. I thought to me self : Just before my stop, if he tries anything,
    I`ll whack `im as `ard as I can, run for the escalator an` be on me toes. The Train pulls in to Mile End, I stand
    up to get off,.....the black guy looks at me, and says : Are you the guy from Scum ?..I said ; ..Yeah, ...the black guy says....
    ...........good film man."

    • @aspenrebel
      @aspenrebel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I would have said to myself "I'm going to die!!"

    • @aspenrebel
      @aspenrebel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Oh Ray Winstone played "Carlin" who turned out to be the focal character. Was "Scum" a TV movie 1st? Cuz under Ray Winstone's Wikipedia - Filmography it has this movie "Scum" 1979, then under Television it has 1977 "Scum" - "Carlin" - TV movie. So wondering??? I think I've seen him before in one or a few things when he got older. Info says he was in the movie "The Departed" (2006) which was filmed here in Boston. It loosely took in about Boston's Irish mob boss, James "Whitey" Bulger, head of the "Winter Hill Gang" (based on Winter Hill in Somerville, Massachusetts. I little north and over to the West from Boston proper). But he was also in nearby Charlestown section of Boston, and South Boston, and all over. He was on the lamb for 16+ years. The Feds finally found him in ...... Santa Monica, California (I think it was). He was tried and convicted, sent to Fed Prison. He was old and had health issues. Ended up in a wheelchair in prison. He was murdered in prison by two other inmates. Clearly a "hit".

    • @johntrevy1
      @johntrevy1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@aspenrebel There was the BBC TV play that got banned for obvious reasons and went unviewed until mid to late naughties on DVD. And there is the cinema version (This) that you would be most familiar with.

    • @aspenrebel
      @aspenrebel 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johntrevy1 ok

    • @nigelbase1196
      @nigelbase1196 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Winstone was a hard bastard in real life and could handle himself...he boxed for England in his younger days 😉

  • @harveysmith100
    @harveysmith100 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    In 1945 thousands of men came back from the war suffering from shell shock. (PTSD) They brutalized the next generation who went onto try do the same to our generation (The lads in the film.) The guards in this film are exactly like those born after the war.
    This is the first time I have seen the film and I am 58. I went all the way back to the seventies, it was exactly like that.

    • @bobbiescrisps9208
      @bobbiescrisps9208 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      Yeah I remember school teachers that had actually been in WW2. Their children were definitely worse or as bad. From the 70’s to the 80’s I remember the brutal teachers, most men but some women as well. I also recall the weirdo’s that would hang around the school gate and public toilets, luckily I never had a problem but my friend was nearly abducted walking home one day and we would never go to the toilets at the bus station. Now im older I recon these weirdo’s were war kids, maybe evacuees who were probably abused back in those dark times

    • @Steven-xj6yb
      @Steven-xj6yb 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ccuon fort beat us

    • @davec1704
      @davec1704 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      @@bobbiescrisps9208 Yes the schools i went to in the 70s early 80s the teachers were brutal,always remember a girl answering a female teacher back she jumped up and grabbed her hair , dragged her along the floor screaming, that was tame compared to some of the treatment us lads got.

    • @harveysmith100
      @harveysmith100 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @kennymacdonald5313 I can see you are very articulate with words Kenny so why don't you elaborate and tell us all why it is garbage.

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I'm finding myself drawn to Mecca 😅

  • @alaistairhamilton8838
    @alaistairhamilton8838 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

    The way Carlin did Richards and Banks over in short order was poetic.

    • @jamiesehdev2663
      @jamiesehdev2663 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Loved that revenge part...

    • @peterlovage3167
      @peterlovage3167 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I was in Borstal in 1970. It was Very much like this. 😮Being in wormwood scrubs. Was Frightening. Was glad to get to Borstal. Once settled in was OK. If they thought you was a wimp you would get picked on . I was fortunate enough to get on with the house daddy. Spent 11 months there. 6 months- 2 years.. It was hard back then. Not like today ..

    • @rculver9056
      @rculver9056 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@peterlovage3167 What was the Scrubs back then? In this, they make it sound like it wasn't an adult prison.

    • @BavonWW
      @BavonWW 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Odd, I did a good while in the Scrubs as an adult on A wing, then B then finally D wing. A few weeks after my release that documentary came out about the screws.
      It began during the prison officers. They solved by bringing in loads of governors to staff us. They kept asking us about the screws behaviour.
      We didn't talk at first but a prisoner was not allowed to talk to his little girl who was dying. They kept beating him as well. He was only on mistaken identity anyway so
      eventually he talked as did other prisoners in sympathy. The gang of screws doing all the bullying were shown in the documentary including one bastard who
      made my time there very difficult.
      I didn't know it was a Borstal too. Nasty Victorian hole, a lot like Mordor. Hated it but the cons were mostly great guys.

  • @solrosenberg4529
    @solrosenberg4529 ปีที่แล้ว +520

    I knew a foreign girl who watched this film without knowing what a borstal was. She thought Scum depicted life in a normal British school lol

    • @azertu2u2
      @azertu2u2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Lmao!

    • @chrisspring1162
      @chrisspring1162 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Is in sum schools...

    • @anaaaaal
      @anaaaaal ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Not far wrong,some schools in south London at the time was a bit like that.

    • @Unicysis
      @Unicysis ปีที่แล้ว

      I bet she thought different when she saw the rape scene

    • @fairlyvague82
      @fairlyvague82 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      It pretty much is in some places

  • @nicky29031977
    @nicky29031977 4 ปีที่แล้ว +658

    An interesting fact about this film is that there is no musical score , even during the credits, which only adds to the realism.

    • @nicky29031977
      @nicky29031977 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @Dennis Menace I didn't either until I watched the commentary on the DVD.

    • @zibbezabba2491
      @zibbezabba2491 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Same with 'Porridge' (from what I remember)

    • @paulbackhard6315
      @paulbackhard6315 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@zibbezabba2491 porridge the film had the song free inside by Joe Brown for the closing credits

    • @chrisryland202
      @chrisryland202 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well done Nicky..

    • @CM-eg3gl
      @CM-eg3gl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Interesting or plain fucking obvious?

  • @radioblueheart
    @radioblueheart 3 ปีที่แล้ว +215

    “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
    -Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    • @JacquesMesrine94
      @JacquesMesrine94 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      *"Soap is the yardstick of civilization"*
      *_Tyler Durden_*

    • @T1mButler
      @T1mButler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Mark Twain says more or less the same shit

    • @minigrande1939
      @minigrande1939 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It could be a social anthropological experiment.

    • @aspenrebel
      @aspenrebel 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Then exiting them!!

    • @leemarvinhitchmanciaratell3450
      @leemarvinhitchmanciaratell3450 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lee Marvin at Real Porridge Podcast

  • @hilarityensues
    @hilarityensues 4 ปีที่แล้ว +261

    Poor Davis. The scene sickened me when I was a kid. Probably the most harrowing rape scene in film history. Poor lad. The bit where he says 'He fell' is truly heartbreaking. Life destroyed in minutes and no way back from it either. God love any lads that had to endure that cruelty and trauma. And any system that stands by and allows it deserves to be dropped into the dustbin of history.

    • @hercules3845
      @hercules3845 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Hilarity Ensues yeah it’s evil af

    • @dkizxpt-su3ze
      @dkizxpt-su3ze 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Harrowing? I thought it was hilarious. Still do

    • @CaptainCharismaY2J
      @CaptainCharismaY2J 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@dkizxpt-su3ze You should see the original scene from the BBC version, the casting for the two rapists was bizarre.

    • @gladysjayne
      @gladysjayne 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I hate what they did to him

    • @MisterSands
      @MisterSands 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@CaptainCharismaY2J Yeah that long haired wild thing bumming Davis lol.

  • @Chaseniceness
    @Chaseniceness ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Poor Davis. And the screw ignoring the bell.
    It was cos he was told he was on garden duty the next day (Julian Firth). Good actor.

    • @A43R3W
      @A43R3W 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Why u ring that bell Don’t u know it’s an offence

    • @ArchyB77456
      @ArchyB77456 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Let me save you some time and take you straight to the majestic greenhouse scene..
      1:16:26 After a hard days graft the boys ask the gardener for a break. "Just a quick burn" which sets up the scene for Davis's sacrificial buggering.
      1:16:52 Davis is potting his plant setting the tone of the glorious love making that he is about to endure…
      1:17:06 After a quick smoke, the boys make there way over to Davis who rudely asks them, 'whatchoo want?' This is followed by a swift punch to Davis's stomach from Chambers.
      1:17:10 As Davis coils in pain Chambers in his heavy breath tells Smith to 'turn Davis ova.' The request is quickly obliged in excitement and anticipation as James can no longer wait, taking off his overalls ready to insert his already pulsating hard cock in to Davis's soft, sweet, moist virgin tulip.
      1:17:33 As Davis hopelessly flays around pathetically crying 'no, please no,' Smith and Chamber's already have Davis's overall's and panties down and around his ankles exposing both his sweet, peachy, un touched, bald bottom and his delicate mid drift as James, (no longer able to contain his excitement), quickly rushes to get his clothes off to begin the sacrifice.
      1:17:35 Davis feels the tip of James's fat, purple bell end slowly touching pushing in to his taint as he helplessly pleads and tries to escape one final time but to no avail. One hard push and James feels his fat meaty, erect cock enter the warm, tight, juicy cack hole of Davis as he gives an uncomfortable yelp from the sheer size of his lover's delicious meat sausage as it begins to expands and push further inside Davis's marmite hole of warmth.
      1:17:41 A quick punch by James to Davis's little mid drift easily loosens up his sphinx and he is now fully inside his boyfriend's colon of warmth. Davis cries in both pain and excitement as Smith and Chambers hold him down even biting his arm turned on by this new experience he is enjoying.
      1:17:47 Davis cries on pleasure as James begins to get faster and deeper in to his boyfriend's tullip as his you hear his testicles slapping Davis's bald bottom cheeks which begin to turn red from the sheer force of James's love making. Chambers begins to take his overall's off in preparation as James reaches his climax.
      1:17:57 James gets faster and faster as Davis tries his hardest to pretend to escape but he is held down by Chambers and Smith and Davis flats his head with continual please of 'no, please no' mean 'yes, please yes' as Davis bites his arm in pleasure so much he begins to leave marks.
      1:18:02 James and Davis finally become one with each other when James climaxes his juicy loins inside Davis's spoiled honey pot of warmth. James gives Davis a loving embrace from behind in appreciation for his brave sacrifice. However, Davis's short respite after his love making is only temporary as he feels James's tired, semi erect cock painfully pull out of his dripping, ruined man hole ready for Chamber's to have a quick go as the lovely Mr Sands looks on smiling with pleasure as he feels a little tingle in his trousers before they are disturbed by the annoying gardener to break up the festivities.
      Soo smooth, soo young, soo bald, good..

    • @ArchyB77456
      @ArchyB77456 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Let me save you some time and take you straight to the majestic greenhouse scene..
      1:16:26 After a hard days graft the boys ask the gardener for a break. "Just a quick burn" which sets up the scene for Davis's sacrificial buggering.
      1:16:52 Davis is potting his plant setting the tone of the glorious love making that he is about to endure…
      1:17:06 After a quick smoke, the boys make there way over to Davis who rudely asks them, 'whatchoo want?' This is followed by a swift punch to Davis's stomach from Chambers.
      1:17:10 As Davis coils in pain Chambers in his heavy breath tells Smith to 'turn Davis ova.' The request is quickly obliged in excitement and anticipation as James can no longer wait, taking off his overalls ready to insert his already pulsating hard cock in to Davis's soft, sweet, moist virgin tulip.
      1:17:33 As Davis hopelessly flays around pathetically crying 'no, please no,' Smith and Chamber's already have Davis's overall's and panties down and around his ankles exposing both his sweet, peachy, un touched, bald bottom and his delicate mid drift as James, (no longer able to contain his excitement), quickly rushes to get his clothes off to begin the sacrifice.
      1:17:35 Davis feels the tip of James's fat, purple bell end slowly touching pushing in to his taint as he helplessly pleads and tries to escape one final time but to no avail. One hard push and James feels his fat meaty, erect cock enter the warm, tight, juicy cack hole of Davis as he gives an uncomfortable yelp from the sheer size of his lover's delicious meat sausage as it begins to expands and push further inside Davis's marmite hole of warmth.
      1:17:41 A quick punch by James to Davis's little mid drift easily loosens up his sphinx and he is now fully inside his boyfriend's colon of warmth. Davis cries in both pain and excitement as Smith and Chambers hold him down even biting his arm turned on by this new experience he is enjoying.
      1:17:47 Davis cries on pleasure as James begins to get faster and deeper in to his boyfriend's tullip as his you hear his testicles slapping Davis's bald bottom cheeks which begin to turn red from the sheer force of James's love making. Chambers begins to take his overall's off in preparation as James reaches his climax.
      1:17:57 James gets faster and faster as Davis tries his hardest to pretend to escape but he is held down by Chambers and Smith and Davis flats his head with continual please of 'no, please no' mean 'yes, please yes' as Davis bites his arm in pleasure so much he begins to leave marks.
      1:18:02 James and Davis finally become one with each other when James climaxes his juicy loins inside Davis's spoiled honey pot of warmth. James gives Davis a loving embrace from behind in appreciation for his brave sacrifice. However, Davis's short respite after his love making is only temporary as he feels James's tired, semi erect cock painfully pull out of his dripping, ruined man hole ready for Chamber's to have a quick go as the lovely Mr Sands looks on smiling with pleasure as he feels a little tingle in his trousers before they are disturbed by the annoying gardener to break up the festivities.
      Soo smooth, soo young, soo bald, good..

    • @ArchyB77456
      @ArchyB77456 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Let me save you some time and take you straight to the majestic greenhouse scene..
      1:16:26 After a hard days graft the boys ask the gardener for a break. "Just a quick burn" which sets up the scene for Davis's sacrificial buggering.
      1:16:52 Davis is potting his plant setting the tone of the glorious love making that he is about to endure…
      1:17:06 After a quick smoke, the boys make there way over to Davis who rudely asks them, 'whatchoo want?' This is followed by a swift punch to Davis's stomach from Chambers.
      1:17:10 As Davis coils in pain Chambers in his heavy breath tells Smith to 'turn Davis ova.' The request is quickly obliged in excitement and anticipation as James can no longer wait, taking off his overalls ready to insert his already pulsating hard cock in to Davis's soft, sweet, moist virgin tulip.
      1:17:33 As Davis hopelessly flays around pathetically crying 'no, please no,' Smith and Chamber's already have Davis's overall's and panties down and around his ankles exposing both his sweet, peachy, un touched, bald bottom and his delicate mid drift as James, (no longer able to contain his excitement), quickly rushes to get his clothes off to begin the sacrifice.
      1:17:35 Davis feels the tip of James's fat, purple bell end slowly touching pushing in to his taint as he helplessly pleads and tries to escape one final time but to no avail. One hard push and James feels his fat meaty, erect cock enter the warm, tight, juicy cack hole of Davis as he gives an uncomfortable yelp from the sheer size of his lover's delicious meat sausage as it begins to expands and push further inside Davis's marmite hole of warmth.
      1:17:41 A quick punch by James to Davis's little mid drift easily loosens up his sphinx and he is now fully inside his boyfriend's colon of warmth. Davis cries in both pain and excitement as Smith and Chambers hold him down even biting his arm turned on by this new experience he is enjoying.
      1:17:47 Davis cries on pleasure as James begins to get faster and deeper in to his boyfriend's tullip as his you hear his testicles slapping Davis's bald bottom cheeks which begin to turn red from the sheer force of James's love making. Chambers begins to take his overall's off in preparation as James reaches his climax.
      1:17:57 James gets faster and faster as Davis tries his hardest to pretend to escape but he is held down by Chambers and Smith and Davis flats his head with continual please of 'no, please no' mean 'yes, please yes' as Davis bites his arm in pleasure so much he begins to leave marks.
      1:18:02 James and Davis finally become one with each other when James climaxes his juicy loins inside Davis's spoiled honey pot of warmth. James gives Davis a loving embrace from behind in appreciation for his brave sacrifice. However, Davis's short respite after his love making is only temporary as he feels James's tired, semi erect cock painfully pull out of his dripping, ruined man hole ready for Chamber's to have a quick go as the lovely Mr Sands looks on smiling with pleasure as he feels a little tingle in his trousers before they are disturbed by the annoying gardener to break up the festivities.
      Soo smooth, soo young, soo bald, good..

    • @jonconnington8987
      @jonconnington8987 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah I felt bad for Davis, he needed someone to look out for him but it's probably difficult putting your neck on the line for someone else in a place like that.

  • @craigj.davies1983
    @craigj.davies1983 ปีที่แล้ว +159

    The rape scene in the greenhouse is brutal, but what is even more brutal is when the teacher sees what is happening and does nothing to intervene, instead the sadistic bastard just watches with utter glee.

    • @allthekingshorses7178
      @allthekingshorses7178 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Davis was helpless, getting treated like that and nobody caring must have been horrific

    • @craigj.davies1983
      @craigj.davies1983 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@allthekingshorses7178 Well yes of course, why do you think he committed suicide by cutting his wrists after his ordeal?

    • @TonyDwight
      @TonyDwight ปีที่แล้ว +8

      How wonderful if the generous Me Sands to allow the young men to downs some time together in the greenhouse and make hot passionate love to his boyfriend.
      He even stayed and watched. I bet he gave himself a cheeky rub as he smiled with pleasure as James arrived inside Davis’s warm, innocent, tight little tullip.
      Soo good…

    • @craigj.davies1983
      @craigj.davies1983 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TonyDwight Are you a poet?

    • @TonyDwight
      @TonyDwight ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@craigj.davies1983
      I should be. A poet of love…
      Sooo good…

  • @kevinbaird7277
    @kevinbaird7277 4 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    This film displays quite clearly the disdain the establishment has for it's people here in the UK, unless of course their is a war, then these very same young men are the heroes we shan't forget, that is if they die, if they come back alive then their are plenty of park benches.

    • @hezbollah670
      @hezbollah670 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Oh come on, they get a poppy, sometimes an entire wreath!... ironic that the British are in Afghanistan helping the opium to flourish .... if you're not in the forces then you're likely smacked out on a park-bench somewhere.... The chosen-race appoint paedos to be our politicians and we fight in their banker-wars.

    • @hayerubihayerubi5720
      @hayerubihayerubi5720 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      You’re spot on 👍

    • @eddiejordan-iq7bz
      @eddiejordan-iq7bz ปีที่แล้ว +2

      you nailed it in 3 sentences,the corperations of the world need these young men to murder people in a foreign land ,and secure the goodies

    • @cheesecakeisgross4645
      @cheesecakeisgross4645 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And nothing has changed. They still have distain for the native scum that we are.

  • @MrMojoSuper
    @MrMojoSuper 4 ปีที่แล้ว +634

    No one can make gritty and realistic movies like the Brits.
    Great movie.
    Thanks for the upload.

    • @DANINREDDY
      @DANINREDDY 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      You have never seen Australian films...

    • @rumcove07
      @rumcove07 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@DANINREDDY Picnic At Hanging Rock was no picnic!

    • @russelledwards001
      @russelledwards001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@DANINREDDY romper stomper.

    • @TomRivieremusic
      @TomRivieremusic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@DANINREDDY with horrible dialect.No thanks!

    • @DANINREDDY
      @DANINREDDY 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TomRivieremusic 🖕

  • @richbulpett4609
    @richbulpett4609 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

    I was there in 86. Everyone was into the "new " children's home system. They just assumed that the assholes disappeared.
    They didn't. 14 went in and there are 2 of us now. 😢
    A real and true 3 seconds out of your day to remember us and do better by us please.

    • @RaptorFromWeegee
      @RaptorFromWeegee 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No matter what kind of system you set up; Borstals, Reformatories, "Wellness Adjustment Action Centres", theres always going to be a shortage of competent trustworthy people willing to work in them. It'll mostly be wannabe cops and guys who can't make as much in a competitive trade.
      But you can't just allow people to go around committing crimes.

    • @PatrickFay-r6j
      @PatrickFay-r6j 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Fuck me they did not give a fuck about ye

    • @AANDYist
      @AANDYist 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      i was in care 84-86, stop being a victim and move on

    • @jasonvoorhees5640
      @jasonvoorhees5640 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@AANDYist
      you were gang graped?? 😳💀

    • @AANDYist
      @AANDYist หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jasonvoorhees5640 sort ya head out.... Drinkings not for you

  • @jasoncorbett8948
    @jasoncorbett8948 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    That Governor- "I will have no violence in this institution. No violence here." Yeah right

    • @IanWaldron-u2n
      @IanWaldron-u2n 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      As Archer said, "A fully fledged humanitarian with a B.A in hatred"

    • @Mickyfinn1888
      @Mickyfinn1888 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Kind of like the owner of a brothel claiming “there will be no sex here.”

  • @kaostic9658
    @kaostic9658 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    My brother was sent to borstal in 78, and was transferred to a youth custodial centre when the borstal's were abolished. The story's I heard and things I remember seeing at visitations weren't all that different from this film. Some of the "screws" were more hell bent tho, handing out floggings for minor things. This film for me is almost like watching a memory of a story I was told when I was young.

    • @johanpeiper5908
      @johanpeiper5908 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      can you tell more please? after I watched this film I looked at the suicide stats and was shocked, I really want to find more information on all of this.

  • @chrisrevill8717
    @chrisrevill8717 4 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    I saw this film for the first time about 20 years ago after coming back from the pub, it was on around midnight. I sobered up very quickly. Very disturbing.

    • @ianmangham4570
      @ianmangham4570 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nah! DRAMA

    • @carryon7701
      @carryon7701 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bullshit

    • @deluxedjsireland224
      @deluxedjsireland224 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I remember it on that night too, it was 1994. Prince Naz won a boxing match earlier that night, can't remember who he was fighting but it had me in a great mood. Then I watched this..

    • @marcp3788
      @marcp3788 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Channel 4 in 1999/2000 i watched in for the first time then, unforgettable

    • @klsecond5755
      @klsecond5755 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@deluxedjsireland224 the Prince!

  • @timroberts1261
    @timroberts1261 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Archer is my hero! A superb character and a funny yet satirical bit of comic relief in an otherwise bleak but brilliant masterpiece! X

  • @peterprescott3419
    @peterprescott3419 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Only a third of a way in but enough to comment. I'll watch the rest later. Takes me back sixty years. One month after my 16th birthday - escaped from a place like the one Carlin is in. Got caught and was committed to a maximum security adult psychiatric unit. Did eighteen months in solitary-no bed, tin piss-pot- concrete walls, concrete floor. Once out of solitary it was fight after fight after fight. Wouldn't kowtow to the gangs or their bosses. Many staff were just as bad. Some though were most humane and very genuine. Was released eleven years later after saving a screw from being killed during a riot. Held the gang off with a broken seat slat with him behind me against a wall. Got married, had children and grandchildren. Made a success of my life by most peoples standards. Sometimes though I shed a quiet tear - just wondering what I may have been, what I may have achieved, how far would I have gone if the childhood, teens and twenties had been different or normal. Well - there it is - I'll watch the rest of the movie now. For me though it was no movie and the players were not actors.

    • @demianattwell4258
      @demianattwell4258 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You're the daddy! Well done.

    • @christchildjayb3
      @christchildjayb3 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for sharing

    • @jasonvoorhees5640
      @jasonvoorhees5640 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      cool story lmao

    • @peterprescott3419
      @peterprescott3419 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@jasonvoorhees5640 I guess the lmao is because you don't believe it - well - everyone is entitled to think and/or believe what they will - but just for the record that story of mine is a hundred percent true and just one of many similar stories from that era of our history.

  • @stephenm8898
    @stephenm8898 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Before i met my wife and settled down i spent the majority of the 90s and early 00s running backwards and forwards to YOI's and later, various prisons and Richards (Phil Daniels) has to be the most realistic prisoner in a prison film that I've ever seen. Every single jail i was ever in had a 'Richards' who acted the gangster because he was mates with or even just from the same area as someone who genuinely is well known and respected/feared but the majority of them end up getting found out at some time or other. Phil Daniels plays the part brilliantly

    • @TheVidkid67
      @TheVidkid67 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I loved him in Breaking Glass too.

    • @David-h4z2s
      @David-h4z2s 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He's a evil little sod the Richard's character
      Played very well by Phil Daniels

    • @stephenm8898
      @stephenm8898 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@David-h4z2s not really just a typical coward who wouldn't of got away with half of what he did if it wasn't for his mates

    • @modernista6056
      @modernista6056 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@TheVidkid67Quadrophenia was his biggest breakthrough movie though. Absolute Cult classic

    • @TheVidkid67
      @TheVidkid67 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@modernista6056 It sure was. He was in a good TV mini series in the 90's called Holding On where he played a restaurant critic with an eating disorder.

  • @steevedaw566
    @steevedaw566 4 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    "Made in Britain." Another classic.

    • @music9556
      @music9556 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      yes a very good film too

    • @ewanfarrell4026
      @ewanfarrell4026 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Excellent, Tim Roth is outstanding..

    • @nach0vidal
      @nach0vidal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Oiiiiiiiiiiii! I WANT MY LUNCH!!!

    • @stu2333
      @stu2333 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Never heard of that film, gonna have to give it a watch

    • @TheVidkid67
      @TheVidkid67 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same director. His film that stood out was Rita, Sue & Bob too.

  • @simontemplate
    @simontemplate 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Hasn’t lost any of its visceral punch over the years. One would like to think the institutions depicted have massively changed but I find myself doubting. Thanks very much for posting.

  • @michaelcarlos8686
    @michaelcarlos8686 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    The days when the British film industry was alive and well and not making trash for the American dollar .

    • @tdoran616
      @tdoran616 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      True, this movie was made FOR the British audience not the global audience which the modern British movie is.

    • @redtargetball
      @redtargetball ปีที่แล้ว

      USA 🇺🇸

    • @everythingfellapart
      @everythingfellapart 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Now they just try to make up for the lack of storyline with constant CGI. Can't remember the last time I saw a decent film... Scum is 10/10

    • @dubdub680
      @dubdub680 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Some more America haters,

  • @909Junkies
    @909Junkies 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    this is one of the best british films ive ever watched! what a master piece! not a single minute wasted!

  • @brianfarrell3987
    @brianfarrell3987 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    when you see the look on Sands' face when he sees Davis' dead body you know that this experience is just going to feed into his anger, sadism and bitterness. He will not have any empathy for Davis, but he will be further dehumanised and will probably view the lad's death as a personal misstep on his part, like allowing one of his livestock to be killed by a predator.

    • @paulbirkbeck1790
      @paulbirkbeck1790 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I could see a sort of smirk on sands face when he finds davis dead

    • @josiewallace7968
      @josiewallace7968 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not as big as smirk when he saw Davis being gangbanged in the greenhouse

    • @ArchyB77456
      @ArchyB77456 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Let me save you some time and take you straight to the majestic greenhouse scene..
      1:16:26 After a hard days graft the boys ask the gardener for a break. "Just a quick burn" which sets up the scene for Davis's sacrificial buggering.
      1:16:52 Davis is potting his plant setting the tone of the glorious love making that he is about to endure…
      1:17:06 After a quick smoke, the boys make there way over to Davis who rudely asks them, 'whatchoo want?' This is followed by a swift punch to Davis's stomach from Chambers.
      1:17:10 As Davis coils in pain Chambers in his heavy breath tells Smith to 'turn Davis ova.' The request is quickly obliged in excitement and anticipation as James can no longer wait, taking off his overalls ready to insert his already pulsating hard cock in to Davis's soft, sweet, moist virgin tulip.
      1:17:33 As Davis hopelessly flays around pathetically crying 'no, please no,' Smith and Chamber's already have Davis's overall's and panties down and around his ankles exposing both his sweet, peachy, un touched, bald bottom and his delicate mid drift as James, (no longer able to contain his excitement), quickly rushes to get his clothes off to begin the sacrifice.
      1:17:35 Davis feels the tip of James's fat, purple bell end slowly touching pushing in to his taint as he helplessly pleads and tries to escape one final time but to no avail. One hard push and James feels his fat meaty, erect cock enter the warm, tight, juicy cack hole of Davis as he gives an uncomfortable yelp from the sheer size of his lover's delicious meat sausage as it begins to expands and push further inside Davis's marmite hole of warmth.
      1:17:41 A quick punch by James to Davis's little mid drift easily loosens up his sphinx and he is now fully inside his boyfriend's colon of warmth. Davis cries in both pain and excitement as Smith and Chambers hold him down even biting his arm turned on by this new experience he is enjoying.
      1:17:47 Davis cries on pleasure as James begins to get faster and deeper in to his boyfriend's tullip as his you hear his testicles slapping Davis's bald bottom cheeks which begin to turn red from the sheer force of James's love making. Chambers begins to take his overall's off in preparation as James reaches his climax.
      1:17:57 James gets faster and faster as Davis tries his hardest to pretend to escape but he is held down by Chambers and Smith and Davis flats his head with continual please of 'no, please no' mean 'yes, please yes' as Davis bites his arm in pleasure so much he begins to leave marks.
      1:18:02 James and Davis finally become one with each other when James climaxes his juicy loins inside Davis's spoiled honey pot of warmth. James gives Davis a loving embrace from behind in appreciation for his brave sacrifice. However, Davis's short respite after his love making is only temporary as he feels James's tired, semi erect cock painfully pull out of his dripping, ruined man hole ready for Chamber's to have a quick go as the lovely Mr Sands looks on smiling with pleasure as he feels a little tingle in his trousers before they are disturbed by the annoying gardener to break up the festivities.
      Soo smooth, soo young, soo bald, good..

    • @ArchyB77456
      @ArchyB77456 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Let me save you some time and take you straight to the majestic greenhouse scene..
      1:16:26 After a hard days graft the boys ask the gardener for a break. "Just a quick burn" which sets up the scene for Davis's sacrificial buggering.
      1:16:52 Davis is potting his plant setting the tone of the glorious love making that he is about to endure…
      1:17:06 After a quick smoke, the boys make there way over to Davis who rudely asks them, 'whatchoo want?' This is followed by a swift punch to Davis's stomach from Chambers.
      1:17:10 As Davis coils in pain Chambers in his heavy breath tells Smith to 'turn Davis ova.' The request is quickly obliged in excitement and anticipation as James can no longer wait, taking off his overalls ready to insert his already pulsating hard cock in to Davis's soft, sweet, moist virgin tulip.
      1:17:33 As Davis hopelessly flays around pathetically crying 'no, please no,' Smith and Chamber's already have Davis's overall's and panties down and around his ankles exposing both his sweet, peachy, un touched, bald bottom and his delicate mid drift as James, (no longer able to contain his excitement), quickly rushes to get his clothes off to begin the sacrifice.
      1:17:35 Davis feels the tip of James's fat, purple bell end slowly touching pushing in to his taint as he helplessly pleads and tries to escape one final time but to no avail. One hard push and James feels his fat meaty, erect cock enter the warm, tight, juicy cack hole of Davis as he gives an uncomfortable yelp from the sheer size of his lover's delicious meat sausage as it begins to expands and push further inside Davis's marmite hole of warmth.
      1:17:41 A quick punch by James to Davis's little mid drift easily loosens up his sphinx and he is now fully inside his boyfriend's colon of warmth. Davis cries in both pain and excitement as Smith and Chambers hold him down even biting his arm turned on by this new experience he is enjoying.
      1:17:47 Davis cries on pleasure as James begins to get faster and deeper in to his boyfriend's tullip as his you hear his testicles slapping Davis's bald bottom cheeks which begin to turn red from the sheer force of James's love making. Chambers begins to take his overall's off in preparation as James reaches his climax.
      1:17:57 James gets faster and faster as Davis tries his hardest to pretend to escape but he is held down by Chambers and Smith and Davis flats his head with continual please of 'no, please no' mean 'yes, please yes' as Davis bites his arm in pleasure so much he begins to leave marks.
      1:18:02 James and Davis finally become one with each other when James climaxes his juicy loins inside Davis's spoiled honey pot of warmth. James gives Davis a loving embrace from behind in appreciation for his brave sacrifice. However, Davis's short respite after his love making is only temporary as he feels James's tired, semi erect cock painfully pull out of his dripping, ruined man hole ready for Chamber's to have a quick go as the lovely Mr Sands looks on smiling with pleasure as he feels a little tingle in his trousers before they are disturbed by the annoying gardener to break up the festivities.
      Soo smooth, soo young, soo bald, good..

    • @ArchyB77456
      @ArchyB77456 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Let me save you some time and take you straight to the majestic greenhouse scene..
      1:16:26 After a hard days graft the boys ask the gardener for a break. "Just a quick burn" which sets up the scene for Davis's sacrificial buggering.
      1:16:52 Davis is potting his plant setting the tone of the glorious love making that he is about to endure…
      1:17:06 After a quick smoke, the boys make there way over to Davis who rudely asks them, 'whatchoo want?' This is followed by a swift punch to Davis's stomach from Chambers.
      1:17:10 As Davis coils in pain Chambers in his heavy breath tells Smith to 'turn Davis ova.' The request is quickly obliged in excitement and anticipation as James can no longer wait, taking off his overalls ready to insert his already pulsating hard cock in to Davis's soft, sweet, moist virgin tulip.
      1:17:33 As Davis hopelessly flays around pathetically crying 'no, please no,' Smith and Chamber's already have Davis's overall's and panties down and around his ankles exposing both his sweet, peachy, un touched, bald bottom and his delicate mid drift as James, (no longer able to contain his excitement), quickly rushes to get his clothes off to begin the sacrifice.
      1:17:35 Davis feels the tip of James's fat, purple bell end slowly touching pushing in to his taint as he helplessly pleads and tries to escape one final time but to no avail. One hard push and James feels his fat meaty, erect cock enter the warm, tight, juicy cack hole of Davis as he gives an uncomfortable yelp from the sheer size of his lover's delicious meat sausage as it begins to expands and push further inside Davis's marmite hole of warmth.
      1:17:41 A quick punch by James to Davis's little mid drift easily loosens up his sphinx and he is now fully inside his boyfriend's colon of warmth. Davis cries in both pain and excitement as Smith and Chambers hold him down even biting his arm turned on by this new experience he is enjoying.
      1:17:47 Davis cries on pleasure as James begins to get faster and deeper in to his boyfriend's tullip as his you hear his testicles slapping Davis's bald bottom cheeks which begin to turn red from the sheer force of James's love making. Chambers begins to take his overall's off in preparation as James reaches his climax.
      1:17:57 James gets faster and faster as Davis tries his hardest to pretend to escape but he is held down by Chambers and Smith and Davis flats his head with continual please of 'no, please no' mean 'yes, please yes' as Davis bites his arm in pleasure so much he begins to leave marks.
      1:18:02 James and Davis finally become one with each other when James climaxes his juicy loins inside Davis's spoiled honey pot of warmth. James gives Davis a loving embrace from behind in appreciation for his brave sacrifice. However, Davis's short respite after his love making is only temporary as he feels James's tired, semi erect cock painfully pull out of his dripping, ruined man hole ready for Chamber's to have a quick go as the lovely Mr Sands looks on smiling with pleasure as he feels a little tingle in his trousers before they are disturbed by the annoying gardener to break up the festivities.
      Soo smooth, soo young, soo bald, good..

  • @roofer10
    @roofer10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I just started watching this and the comments are scaring me a little bit.

    • @TomFarrell-js8sl
      @TomFarrell-js8sl หลายเดือนก่อน

      How so?

    • @roofer10
      @roofer10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just made me feel like I was about to watch sheer horror. They were right. Sad!

  • @adambinnie1332
    @adambinnie1332 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Remember renting this movie on video In the early 1980's - a hard hitting movie it was one of the first movies everyone rented back then, been reading some of the comments so sorry to hear it brings back bad memories to some people with their own real life experiences, not surprising the Borstal system was abolished In 1982.

  • @speakfreeley4473
    @speakfreeley4473 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Always laugh when the gym instructor says "no kicking in the goolies" before the "murderball" scene.

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The authorities could never understand why kids let these places with a chip on their shoulder and nothing but hatred for authority

    • @stephenbanyar1874
      @stephenbanyar1874 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      _"Aah! You've frozen my goolies!"_
      Richard Hammond in Top Gear Ground Force

  • @jeffbanks9955
    @jeffbanks9955 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    How on earth they were supposed to be abused like this then go out to be upstanding citizens ive no idea

    • @IanWaldron-u2n
      @IanWaldron-u2n 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I think back then it was a case of scaring them into reform, instead most were emotionally scarred for life, could you imagine how anyone could live a normal life after being podged up the arse by three big lads? They wouldn't be able to walk past a B&Q or Homebase centre without having traumatic flashbacks.

    • @iamtimsson
      @iamtimsson 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      also know the god of the bible is not the good of this world

    • @ArchyB77456
      @ArchyB77456 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Let me save you some time and take you straight to the majestic greenhouse scene..
      1:16:26 After a hard days graft the boys ask the gardener for a break. "Just a quick burn" which sets up the scene for Davis's sacrificial buggering.
      1:16:52 Davis is potting his plant setting the tone of the glorious love making that he is about to endure…
      1:17:06 After a quick smoke, the boys make there way over to Davis who rudely asks them, 'whatchoo want?' This is followed by a swift punch to Davis's stomach from Chambers.
      1:17:10 As Davis coils in pain Chambers in his heavy breath tells Smith to 'turn Davis ova.' The request is quickly obliged in excitement and anticipation as James can no longer wait, taking off his overalls ready to insert his already pulsating hard cock in to Davis's soft, sweet, moist virgin tulip.
      1:17:33 As Davis hopelessly flays around pathetically crying 'no, please no,' Smith and Chamber's already have Davis's overall's and panties down and around his ankles exposing both his sweet, peachy, un touched, bald bottom and his delicate mid drift as James, (no longer able to contain his excitement), quickly rushes to get his clothes off to begin the sacrifice.
      1:17:35 Davis feels the tip of James's fat, purple bell end slowly touching pushing in to his taint as he helplessly pleads and tries to escape one final time but to no avail. One hard push and James feels his fat meaty, erect cock enter the warm, tight, juicy cack hole of Davis as he gives an uncomfortable yelp from the sheer size of his lover's delicious meat sausage as it begins to expands and push further inside Davis's marmite hole of warmth.
      1:17:41 A quick punch by James to Davis's little mid drift easily loosens up his sphinx and he is now fully inside his boyfriend's colon of warmth. Davis cries in both pain and excitement as Smith and Chambers hold him down even biting his arm turned on by this new experience he is enjoying.
      1:17:47 Davis cries on pleasure as James begins to get faster and deeper in to his boyfriend's tullip as his you hear his testicles slapping Davis's bald bottom cheeks which begin to turn red from the sheer force of James's love making. Chambers begins to take his overall's off in preparation as James reaches his climax.
      1:17:57 James gets faster and faster as Davis tries his hardest to pretend to escape but he is held down by Chambers and Smith and Davis flats his head with continual please of 'no, please no' mean 'yes, please yes' as Davis bites his arm in pleasure so much he begins to leave marks.
      1:18:02 James and Davis finally become one with each other when James climaxes his juicy loins inside Davis's spoiled honey pot of warmth. James gives Davis a loving embrace from behind in appreciation for his brave sacrifice. However, Davis's short respite after his love making is only temporary as he feels James's tired, semi erect cock painfully pull out of his dripping, ruined man hole ready for Chamber's to have a quick go as the lovely Mr Sands looks on smiling with pleasure as he feels a little tingle in his trousers before they are disturbed by the annoying gardener to break up the festivities.
      Soo smooth, soo young, soo bald, good..

    • @CARLIN4737
      @CARLIN4737 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      They didnt.

  • @pendafen7405
    @pendafen7405 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Poor tragic Davis. Men in the comments laughing at his horrifying plight are as bad as the screws in this film. Sexual assault is one of the worst horrors one can endure, and Davis was staring in the face of repeated attacks (or so he assumed).

    • @arserobinson7118
      @arserobinson7118 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He was assuming repeated attacks because he know he couldn't stop stealing the radios of all the other inmates.

    • @pablogats4627
      @pablogats4627 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He got what he deserved the little radio thief

  • @chrisevans5259
    @chrisevans5259 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Love the gritty realism of this film,...it's raw and hard hitting,...and pulls no punches,....and a young Ray Winstone was born to play this role,....love the film

    • @vexdup949
      @vexdup949 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He was in a couple of Sweeney episodes well before, though.

    • @matimus100
      @matimus100 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You're love is cruel

  • @origamipig
    @origamipig ปีที่แล้ว +361

    An absolute classic, re-watching it now after 40 odd years. Still one of the most powerful films I’ve ever seen. Brutal, disturbing and deeply poignant. I was a young teenage girl when I first watched this , bit of a rebel like we all seemed to be in early eighties Britain. I’m pushing 60 now but still don’t like to be pushed around. Thanks so much for posting this.

    • @alienscientist8893
      @alienscientist8893 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      We are a great generation.. Old school..

    • @iansliman2613
      @iansliman2613 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I felt the same at the time...but after the same amount of time... well its still shocking. Powerful and funny...4737 Carlin Sir ....and I'm
      the fuckin daddy now....!!!!!!!!!

    • @alanmctavish4802
      @alanmctavish4802 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Origamipig@ same here. Yes it is a powerfull film! I first saw it in 1983 i think and that was 39 years ago. Hard to believe its 39 years ago. How are boys who are men really at age 18 not meant to hit the screws back when there just bullying them all the time. Especialy boys that are 6ft and bigger. Back then in 1979 6ft was seen as really big then at age 18, and still is big today. As most of the screws wernt 6ft then! But a think they had to be at least 5ft9" but there was one or two that didnt even look 5ft9 in the film. I thought it was just as powerfull or maybe more powerfull than "a sense of freedom" about jimmy boyle and that was a great film. Why did they stop borstal? Seemingly it had a good success rate as 50% of boys didnt go back to jail again as it was that bad. Now its more like supported accomadation and alot of guys admit that its easier inside than it is to live outside now becouse the system as a whole is failing them. There is very little help if any at all once they step out that door, the welfare system makes it near impossible to help them get money to live on? They have to go into a hostel with lots of addicts and with no money to live on? They cant get to see any one? Its like coming out of jail and going into an open one really! So no wonder they start drinking again, what are they meant to do? Its like there not meant to go forward.

    • @KOKINGWAYNE
      @KOKINGWAYNE ปีที่แล้ว +7

      What Tool!?

    • @hoopster68
      @hoopster68 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Fancy a pint? xx

  • @dwangs465
    @dwangs465 3 ปีที่แล้ว +394

    I worked with a lad who spent 2 years in these hell holes for accidentally hitting a ball of a car which caused it to crash into a shop in his early teens. The stories of the abuse he told us about were horrific. He said this film was tame in comparison to the mental physical and sexual abuse some lads went through.

  • @mark660460
    @mark660460 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I remember watching this as part of the Channel 4 banned season in 1991, incredible piece of film making..

  • @douggherkin
    @douggherkin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    My Dad was in a detention centre in Nottingham in the 60's - said this film was just like it was. ....it was this film in fact that caused the nationwide sweeping reform.

    • @johnbowkett80
      @johnbowkett80 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I agree . I did Whatton D C in 1973 and this is what is was like . The 2 Borstals I attended were much easier . All the best . 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

    • @debro1873
      @debro1873 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      my mate from Sutton in Ashfield was in borstal quiet a few times in the mid 60s

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Dover was a shit hole 😂

    • @steverads8816
      @steverads8816 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@debro1873mate sutton was a hard place full stop!!

    • @iamtimsson
      @iamtimsson 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      no damned thing has changed since the dawn and i imagine it so after the dusk

  • @spartybrearly7221
    @spartybrearly7221 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Mr Duke’s face as Archer rips the proverbial out of him 😂

  • @BaddaBigBoom
    @BaddaBigBoom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    This reminds me of how miserable life could be in the early 70s. Borstal didn't work, violence bred violence ..this film underlines that.
    Fucking fantastic film ...grim and uncomfortable to watch, but fantastic.

    • @CARLIN4737
      @CARLIN4737 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      1979?

  • @tonianita1
    @tonianita1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

    I'm 62 now and I often re watch films from this era. I've never managed to watch this one more than once. It was an absolutely brilliant film but I hate the brutality and that scene in the greenhouse is so vile. The prison guard's face....

    • @gregoreisenhorn5093
      @gregoreisenhorn5093 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Mr Sands was slyly pleasuring himself while watching the romantic union

    • @leepshin
      @leepshin 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I'm 52 and watching this for the first time. I forgot just how brutal the 70's could be.

    • @pierrecibandit3877
      @pierrecibandit3877 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yes 100 % agreed, and why is the greenhouse scene the most replayed by far on here?? Dafuq!

    • @googleuser8740
      @googleuser8740 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Its 70s porn thats why!​@@pierrecibandit3877

    • @shugmchugh5107
      @shugmchugh5107 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@gregoreisenhorn5093he wasn't the only one!

  • @Rob-bv6ew
    @Rob-bv6ew 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    One of the most important films ever made. It does not shy away.

  • @jonmassey8124
    @jonmassey8124 3 ปีที่แล้ว +182

    This Film was the main reason I changed my criminal ways when I was a teenager.. it literally knocked some sense into me and scared me shitless.

    • @tinman3952
      @tinman3952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      You should of carried on being a criminal. This doesn't happen in jail.

    • @jonmassey8124
      @jonmassey8124 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@tinman3952 well I went from a being a bit of a scrapper to growing Weed for 12 years so that lifestyle chilled me right out. 👍

    • @welshy4638
      @welshy4638 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@tinman3952 I saw everything apart from the rape in my time in a YOI in '91. Constant attacks by inmates on other inmates along with 3 suicide attempts, 2 of them successful. One of them was a Vicars son. He wrote his boyfriends name in blood on the wall of his pad, I was only in for 3 months. Been on the straight and narrow for 30 years.

    • @Journey_to_who_knows
      @Journey_to_who_knows 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I figure since you have to be a piece of shit to survive, you leave a piece of shit, can you really get back from it?

    • @johnforkan1492
      @johnforkan1492 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@tinman3952 what do you know about borstal in the 70's

  • @alaistairhamilton8838
    @alaistairhamilton8838 2 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    As I remember, Alan Clarke faced a lot of criticism and hate from prison guards who claimed that this wasn't the normal way things went in reform insitutions such as borstals. However, I think there was far more truth to this than they like to admit, and it is an inconvenient truth they wanted kept quiet.
    Brilliant writing, direction and acting. Cold, brutal and utterly chilling. America have never managed this level or realism and grit in their films.

    • @alaistairhamilton8838
      @alaistairhamilton8838 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @JustSomeBloke Doesn't surprise me. They can't match the quality and brutality of the original, and Hollywood ruins every remake of a film foreign to them anyway - cases in point: Let The Right One In, The Ring, Death Note.

    • @RobWright1981
      @RobWright1981 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Anywhere that people have that kind of control over people will lead to abuse.

    • @TheEddiePing
      @TheEddiePing 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      That shit did happen and I'm afraid still does

    • @patwaddington
      @patwaddington 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Makes you think too of how much was covered up in real borstals by the government

    • @RaptorFromWeegee
      @RaptorFromWeegee 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Maybe take a look at the TV special 'Scared Strait', from 1978, or the movie, 'Short Eyes' from 1977. They were both filmed in ACTUAL correctional institutions, and they're both on TH-cam for free

  • @benmacdui9328
    @benmacdui9328 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Ive still never been back in a greenhouse since first watching this 30 years ago.

  • @richardpickering2452
    @richardpickering2452 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Unless you have experienced this for real you can't understand the fear it instills and the effects it has.

  • @kevcification
    @kevcification 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    "Up your fucking borstal" Alan Igbon was an absolutely incredible actor.....much missed.

    • @donnyjay9046
      @donnyjay9046 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      🪦 R.I.P. underrated actor.

    • @zypalitra8080
      @zypalitra8080 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The line delivery there is just perfect.

    • @kevcification
      @kevcification 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@zypalitra8080 Absolutely superb.

  • @dkizxpt-su3ze
    @dkizxpt-su3ze 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I love the riot scene at the end where the inmates are chanting 'Dad! Dad! Dad! Dad!' to show the warders that they are looking for a father figure

    • @mistofoles
      @mistofoles 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Are you sure they weren't saying "Dead" with reference to Davies' suicide ?

    • @rivermyerss
      @rivermyerss 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@mistofoles he was being sarcastic (i hope)

    • @loganshooter5331
      @loganshooter5331 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      John smith.😂😅😂😅😂😅class

    • @paulbirkbeck1790
      @paulbirkbeck1790 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol brilliant😂😂😬

    • @matimus100
      @matimus100 ปีที่แล้ว

      You love really John

  • @Benjatron-jw2rg
    @Benjatron-jw2rg 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I worked at a place kinda like this for 3 months, it was the worst job I ever had. I’d get punched, kicked, and spit on everyday, and bitten at least once a week.
    Sadly, after the first month, I had lost any care or compassion for all those kids housed there and I became more concerned with not going home with a broken nose or my eyes gouged out.
    I couldn’t take anymore, I walked in before my shift, said I quit and walked out.

  • @punksnskaters182
    @punksnskaters182 4 ปีที่แล้ว +397

    The last scene with the riot is very powerful. A show of solidarity against the injustices in an institution where no justice is served. A very powerful message indeed and a great movie overall, even today

    • @garyzod8818
      @garyzod8818 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      A very powerful scene, but in the end they chose 3 ringleaders and trashed them.

    • @zekeedwards9708
      @zekeedwards9708 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Do you know what they were chanting before it kicked off! Been wondering that for decades!

    • @garypart393
      @garypart393 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      @@zekeedwards9708 they were chanting dead, dead, dead, dead, in regards to Davis who was bummed in the potting shed,

    • @zekeedwards9708
      @zekeedwards9708 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@garypart393 ahh cheers,

    • @steevedaw566
      @steevedaw566 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      "Justice",ends up just beating the shite out of them.

  • @adamdickson1404
    @adamdickson1404 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    In the top 5 British films without a doubt. The cast, script and direction are flawless.

    • @BruceDanton-xw6eg
      @BruceDanton-xw6eg 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Like get Carter and all I wonder too.

  • @AJ-qn6gd
    @AJ-qn6gd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +389

    Still as hard hitting today as it was over forty years ago a brilliant piece of British cinematography.

    • @angeldark8812
      @angeldark8812 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Blake Davis certainly ain't no watered down play...

    • @CARLIN4737
      @CARLIN4737 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Absolutely, As iconic and cult as Quadrophenia which was also released the same year, 1979.

    • @CARLIN4737
      @CARLIN4737 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I watch this at least once a year. Just an absolute classic.

    • @speak_your_truth.
      @speak_your_truth. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@blakedavis1852 why did you ask then dude?

    • @keyopronin4134
      @keyopronin4134 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Damn, your Statement is Gospel.

  • @awaitthegroom
    @awaitthegroom ปีที่แล้ว +85

    I fainted in the cinema watching this as a young girl of 16 in 1979. After a career of 43 years nursing I can cope with it now !

    • @judyhopps9380
      @judyhopps9380 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      thanks for your service

    • @paparoach007
      @paparoach007 หลายเดือนก่อน

      bot.

  • @pawel7923
    @pawel7923 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    One of the most brutal and powerful films ever made

  • @renamamiya2023
    @renamamiya2023 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    37:53 my favourite scene, Banks and Richards getting what they deserved

    • @reginaldrubicon4451
      @reginaldrubicon4451 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      11:16.37 Davis getting what he desired.
      Soo good..

    • @thedirtyignorantdavis9078
      @thedirtyignorantdavis9078 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@reginaldrubicon4451 Take a walk on the Brown Side....

    • @gordonoliver250
      @gordonoliver250 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      His mate doesn't even stand up for him...slag

    • @jasonbardell7563
      @jasonbardell7563 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@reginaldrubicon4451 i think the richards character was played by phil daniels well he looked like him

    • @cretekastos6903
      @cretekastos6903 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@reginaldrubicon4451 - what an edgelord you are.

  • @joem7922
    @joem7922 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Carlin talking to Sands in the canteen about him “falling” sets the tone for how ruthless and unreasonable the whole system is in Borstal.
    “Quiet, speak when I tell you lad” then expecting an answer straight after his question is just part of the structure designed to break down everyone’s basic general function. Same with when he tells him to sweep the floor and threatens him with Report for not setting his bed up.
    Gives the whole vibe of “you’re not here to rehabilitate and learn, you’re here for us to fuck with you physically and mentally until you break and the next lot come along”

  • @arserobinson7118
    @arserobinson7118 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Davis is such a vile passive-aggressive bastard, cruelly steals Eckersley's radio, harasses Mr Greaves with his buzzer when he was trying to read his newspaper. And in the greenhouse at 1:17:14 was rude - "whatchuwant" and then knocked a load of potted plants onto the floor. But to top it all off he killed himself just to try and make James, Smith and Chambers feel guilty. Revolting person.

  • @garyzod8818
    @garyzod8818 4 ปีที่แล้ว +173

    I know people that were in borstal in the late 70s, they told me this film was no exaggeration, the screws were evil bastards.

    • @geoffreybuist3950
      @geoffreybuist3950 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      I was a kid at the time but i knew of a young chap who went away for a long time. Later i found out he went to a detention centre !!! he was never the same person and slowly withered away and lost his will to live. Like the mental health in those days, the punishment was brushed under the carpet. now 2020 not all that much has changed???

    • @fwingkingunclejohn166
      @fwingkingunclejohn166 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Pure evil and pedo's. Dirty fucking bastards were fucking the weak lads up the arse everyday. Meadomsly in County Durham was hell.

    • @garypart393
      @garypart393 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@fwingkingunclejohn166 were you in borstal?.

    • @coalhalo
      @coalhalo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Geoffrey Buist
      It’s not that the “punishment” was brushed under the carpet, it’s the way borstals/prisons operate

    • @kryten1021
      @kryten1021 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I was in Deerbolt 78/79 ....mainly bastard screws that loved their job , scum is a very accurate portrayal

  • @danieltownley7133
    @danieltownley7133 4 ปีที่แล้ว +640

    The scene between Archer and the screw was the heart of the film in my opinion. Two people ground down by a system that removes all humanity, both right and both wrong. Both actors should be more recognised for this.

    • @DavisSir
      @DavisSir 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Archer: I was very drawn to Davis’s tullip Sir... Very drawn indeed..
      Govner: TULLIP ARCHER?!
      Archer: Yes Sir..
      Govner: Archer you will see the Chaplin tomorrow and there will be no more talk about Davis’s sweet, Devine, moist, TULLIP! Again do you understand?
      Archer: Yes Sir.
      Govner: Soo Good...

    • @Zkkr429
      @Zkkr429 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Only one was ground down.

    • @TheVidkid67
      @TheVidkid67 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think that too. I showed this scene on my review of it.

    • @annescholey6546
      @annescholey6546 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Mr Duke is a liar and a thug like Banks

    • @russelledwards001
      @russelledwards001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@annescholey6546 they’re all thugs - the screws and the system is the scum.

  • @MrVxrman
    @MrVxrman ปีที่แล้ว +336

    I watched this film in 1984 with my parents and that scene in the greenhouse still makes feel sick nearly forty years later.
    God bless all the poor souls who sufferd in the hands of these so called places of correction 🙏

    • @jaidenbousybou9133
      @jaidenbousybou9133 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      It's not based on a real story

    • @fretboardmaster70
      @fretboardmaster70 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Of course… this film is purely fictional and nothing portrayed in this film never ever really happened in British Borstals….

    • @BC0101
      @BC0101 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      The suicide scene is more disturbing, probably worse than the greenhouse scene

    • @hellohandsome9875
      @hellohandsome9875 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Don't forget, they were all volunteers

    • @johntrevy1
      @johntrevy1 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@fretboardmaster70 Then why were the borstals shut?

  • @cwbellor
    @cwbellor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Damn! I've seen a LOT of prison movies! Seen plenty of rape scenes and that scene in the green house is going to stay with me. Heart breaking.

    • @richymenezes1524
      @richymenezes1524 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Parnell Anderson to let the boy suffer..😕

    • @drivingintothedesertuntilt3202
      @drivingintothedesertuntilt3202 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      it was a tough fap

    • @cwbellor
      @cwbellor 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's why the movie is called Scum. That name could be applied to the staff as easily as the inmates. He was a closeted sadist I think. Either that or it was the run of the mill power obsession all those guards inevitably had. Combine that with the daily anxiety he might have with a job like that and viewing something like that may offer some kind of twisted relief.

    • @bensmithkent22
      @bensmithkent22 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cwbellor sands was next level evil compared to most of the others, him and the governor were true evil. They took some of him into the making of the one in shawshank who was much more of a major character.

  • @stuartcampbell4414
    @stuartcampbell4414 4 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    A true depiction of the 70s/80s borstels in the UK.

    • @jaywalkercrew4446
      @jaywalkercrew4446 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Stuart Campbell they where grim..okay if you was hard as fuck.

    • @edmund184
      @edmund184 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Young Offenders Institutions are just as bad now, I think.

    • @stuartcampbell4414
      @stuartcampbell4414 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@edmund184 you clearly ain't got a fucking clue pal with comment like that...do u have experience of borstels back In the day like....didn't think so,now a days they are not allowed to be touched or the staff get the sack,they take physical abuse and mental abuse off kids nd they can't do Jack shit about it....now back then if you looked at one of the staff the wrong way you got a tanking or if they got out of bed the wrong side that morning and you just happen to be in their who you got a bleaching....so quit with you shit fuck remarks when you haven't a clue what your talking about

    • @bigredinfinity3126
      @bigredinfinity3126 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@stuartcampbell4414 even in the 90's Australia had some evil places .Prisons now are soft,well some are

    • @Debagio
      @Debagio 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yes, mass bummings were part of the daily routine.

  • @whatfffd
    @whatfffd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +105

    The snooker ball , sock scene and the close camera follow of Ray is incredibly in its simplicity but so damn effective.

    • @jeffryhammel3035
      @jeffryhammel3035 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes. So quick and unexpected. I was left aghast.

    • @ralphshelley9586
      @ralphshelley9586 ปีที่แล้ว

      Poetic justice

    • @CONEHEADDK
      @CONEHEADDK ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That one, and "where's your tool?" taught me a few things many years ago. Mostly that I didn't want to pay the price of becoming a top dog. And also that you "always" have a way out - at least in the moment. But in the end, as Jordan Peterson says, noone ever gets away with anything.. There's always a price, you just can't always predict it.

  • @nickwhite1182
    @nickwhite1182 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    . I was in Rochester borstal late 70s..... This film is spot on just like it was..... it's like going back in a timewarp. Short Sharp shock.

  • @MarkHenstridge
    @MarkHenstridge 4 ปีที่แล้ว +506

    This film brings back memories for me, memories I had tried to forget about. I wasn't put in places similar to these for doing anything wrong, I was ten years old and removed from the family home because my parents could not get along. I was placed in institutions for delinquent boys for 3 years and for those 3 years I was reminded every day that I was no good! My mother left my father and I was allowed home on weekends to stay at my mother's. Little did the authorities know my mother had a boyfriend who lived with us who, to cut a long painful story short he would get violent with my mother and beat the crap out of me, funny that! that is something I never saw my father do! I try not to dwell on it.

    • @h3akalee
      @h3akalee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      Hope you find peace Mark.

    • @deborahkelly1948
      @deborahkelly1948 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Hope you have healed ,children are listened to these days thankfully

    • @cheadycheady2040
      @cheadycheady2040 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      I had the same shit mate...but I beat the crap out of all the fucking bully's in my life, every dog has its day...

    • @jjcale539
      @jjcale539 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      dammit Mark.. I hope things worked out for you...greetings from South Africa

    • @Corkedwolf43771
      @Corkedwolf43771 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@deborahkelly1948 and suffer the same abuse

  • @tarikkhan2341
    @tarikkhan2341 3 ปีที่แล้ว +184

    The Davis character is heartbreaking man. Just to think kids for real are/went through this kind of torture. I welled up when I first saw this 22 years ago.

    • @brijones
      @brijones 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      i was in borstal came out in 77 the screws were sadistic cunts back then it was a psych borstal as well with a hospital wing bad bad memories when they used a liquid cosh (injection Largactil)

    • @andypeterson3070
      @andypeterson3070 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I bet he had a sore bum after that.

    • @garethglitter5932
      @garethglitter5932 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Every time another inmate approaches Davis he goes 'Whatchoowant?' in a rude and sneering tone. C of E are we? Answer the Guv/Nor!!! he's even rude to the staff. People like Davis make me sick....

    • @garethglitter5932
      @garethglitter5932 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @An Armchair D is for Davis, also for Devil. J is for James also for Jesus. Can it be that the greenhouse was the scene of an epic battle between the AntiChrist and the Chosen One, as foretold in Revelations????

    • @garethglitter5932
      @garethglitter5932 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @An Armchair I always thought Sutcliffe was a Patsy and the real Ripper was actually Davis.

  • @venturi210
    @venturi210 ปีที่แล้ว +160

    You will never get a sense of realism like this in a film made today. I'm 55 and grew up in South East London. The sense of claustrophobia and despair came right back to me from my youth watching.this film. So sad to watch. This film is raw and and harsh as life truly is. We are so cushioned from the realities of power hungry people now.

    • @ladyscarface1
      @ladyscarface1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      as someone who went in the system in the 70's at 10 months for 18yrs this film gives me ptsd.

    • @DonDada-qq5wy
      @DonDada-qq5wy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Whatton D.C....... Terrible memories, it brings back.
      Won't wish the place likely until my earnings

    • @gabrielegagliardi3956
      @gabrielegagliardi3956 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Some movies with a gritty/raw vibe that come to my mind are the pusher trilogy and brat (brother), even Climax if we talk about more modern productions. I love that kind of hyper realistic / in the moment movies, another one is called "naked" by Mike Leigh, different, not action orientated but with the same feeling of walking behind someone and filming his life for what it is, without sugar coating the cinematic experience.

    • @cosmicstargazer10
      @cosmicstargazer10 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@gabrielegagliardi3956thank you for the recommendations, I've not heard of them before.

    • @gazzy9136
      @gazzy9136 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Exactly. You have these crazy people claiming we're in end times and life is worse now than ever. Those people are so clueless of our history. We live in safer times more now than ever before in recorded history. Even the average lifespan has increased. People just fold under pressure too easily these days because the media and social media are fear mongering the public and people buy into it.

  • @barnabyallen5796
    @barnabyallen5796 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

    That poor lad at the end . He had no other choice . The pleading to that guy should have been met with kindness , compassion and understanding instead of cold hearted indifference . I have no doubt there were countless young lads who took the same way out in real life both before and since the film was made (1979) . A superbly poignant performance.

    • @andrewswift9039
      @andrewswift9039 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      That's right, Mr Greaves had all the compassion of a Nazi camp commandant.

    • @gregoreisenhorn5093
      @gregoreisenhorn5093 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@andrewswift9039 Mr Greaves was just trying to read his paper in peace. Perhaps if that toerag Davis hadn't stolen Eckersley's radio, he'd not have been the recipient of a weapons grade bumming for his transgression leading to his night time theatrics, and Mr Greaves could have ogled his page 3 strumpet in serene surroundings.

    • @___bluff___
      @___bluff___ 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@gregoreisenhorn5093😂😂

    • @Foebane72
      @Foebane72 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@gregoreisenhorn5093 Shut up, you turd, it's not funny.

    • @A43R3W
      @A43R3W 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@andrewswift9039 true get ur sub normal head down lol

  • @LittleMissGrosser
    @LittleMissGrosser 4 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    Heartbreaking, stark, brutal film. I cry at Davis in the greenhouse. Love Archer.

    • @emperorreign6154
      @emperorreign6154 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Raul Sandoval 25 If he knew about it, he probably would have.

    • @DavisSir
      @DavisSir 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Don’t cry for me. I loved every minute of it. Those tears were tears of joy in that scene when my boyfriends broke me in for the first time...
      Soo good..

    • @Corkedwolf43771
      @Corkedwolf43771 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      4721 Archer sir

    • @europa1387
      @europa1387 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@DavisSir Sick bastard haha

    • @BermondseyBoy
      @BermondseyBoy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@DavisSir you can see where the rapists are in this comment

  • @robertanderson5905
    @robertanderson5905 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    A real sad experience for these young men to have to endure,brings tears to my eyes,the authorities should be held accountable for their immoral actions...

    • @DavisSir
      @DavisSir 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not for me. I’m grateful to the screws. Later on after my delicious love making in the greenhouse I learned my place in the pecking order and I became a barrister and I convicted these three c()£s who called themselves “The musical youth” for smoking weed.
      For some reason they walked out of court without one officer stopping them singing “Pass the Dutchie on the left hand side”...
      Weird...
      Soo Good...

    • @garyzod8818
      @garyzod8818 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Pervert

    • @evertonporter7887
      @evertonporter7887 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I hope every single one of those sadists who carried out such abuses in real life in those brutal institutions will be brought to justice! I hope the victims come forward and speak out.

    • @jaiharvey520
      @jaiharvey520 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@evertonporter7887 100% mate, i hope they all get punished and let the inmates deal with them

    • @aspenrebel
      @aspenrebel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Most end up in prison as adults, often for long terms or life, or dead. That is the reality of it. Most have fathers, or parents, who aren't any better, or went thru the same as teens.

  • @Sean-sn9ld
    @Sean-sn9ld ปีที่แล้ว +61

    One of the best movies ever made.
    The snooker balls in a sock scene is beyond iconic

    • @denisespencer6550
      @denisespencer6550 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That was good. Richards knew to keep his mouth shut after he got hit

    • @DonHomersdonut
      @DonHomersdonut ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Back, grass!!!

    • @denisespencer6550
      @denisespencer6550 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DonHomersdonut that told him good and proper

    • @David-vg8lx
      @David-vg8lx ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s pool balls

    • @Sean-sn9ld
      @Sean-sn9ld ปีที่แล้ว

      @@David-vg8lx they're snooker balls , Google it

  • @itsMrNoble
    @itsMrNoble 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    “You know, when I was out, I always reminded myself you can take something good from every experience. Well, the only thing I'll take from Borstal is evil”
    1:01:07 Archer, sir…

  • @paulallen3405
    @paulallen3405 4 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    I remember watching this as a kid, still a brilliant film even by today's standards.

    • @nicky29031977
      @nicky29031977 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      It's even better than by today's standards!

    • @paulallen3405
      @paulallen3405 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@nicky29031977 I'll have to agree with that statement.

    • @AB0VETHALAW
      @AB0VETHALAW 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello Paul

    • @Usernameunavailableyoubastards
      @Usernameunavailableyoubastards 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yeah same, I'd even say this film helped keep me out of serious trouble.

  • @totalplonker824
    @totalplonker824 2 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    Ray Winstone actually got his breakthrough part for this movie not from his acting but by the style of the way he walked!

    • @pena.3302
      @pena.3302 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thanks Thought it was a young Ray Winstone..!Such a great Actor no doubt..!(The Departed M.Scorsese.!)

    • @ScratchyBaws
      @ScratchyBaws ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Walked?. Do a lot of Westerns did Ray?.

    • @bobbycorbett3046
      @bobbycorbett3046 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah that’s right apparently I read his part was going to go to a bloke from Glasgow or based on a Glaswegian until ray walked in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍🏻

    • @David-h4z2s
      @David-h4z2s 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Also Phil Daniels got his break here another great UK actor

  • @arserobinson7118
    @arserobinson7118 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    1:20:50 I can't believe Davis wasted all that mashed potato, just because he got bummed in the greenhouse. There's people starving in the world and he just wastes food in a tantrum brought on by James, Smith and Chambers punishing him for stealing Eckersley's radio.

    • @gregoreisenhorn5093
      @gregoreisenhorn5093 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Davis should consider himself most fortunate. Not only did he have three suitors expand his back passage, but then had mash for dinner. A fine piece of English cuisine that's easy to pass later incase he was sore from his amorous adventures in the potting shed.

  • @deoranjed8118
    @deoranjed8118 4 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    Every time you watch this movie they look younger and younger!

    • @neilchapman5145
      @neilchapman5145 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I remember first watching this and all the actors were older than me

    • @georgebuller1914
      @georgebuller1914 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Thats 'cos you (and I!) are getting older and older! LOL

    • @andypeterson3070
      @andypeterson3070 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Exactly it's like Stallone in the early Rocky movies. You know you're getting older when he starts to look younger than you.

    • @iamthatguyfromslipknot1137
      @iamthatguyfromslipknot1137 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Believe me mate the first time i watched this film was when i was about 15 and now im 42 years old so your not alone mate,,lol..

  • @ClayTallStories
    @ClayTallStories ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I watched this at the movies when I was 15 in Christchurch NZ. It was R18 I was so shocked. I am 58 now and the movie is a masterpiece that has lost nothing.

    • @jasonvoorhees5640
      @jasonvoorhees5640 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      nonce

    • @mrivantchernegovski3869
      @mrivantchernegovski3869 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Hey a Kiwi cool .we had our borstal in the middle of nowhere north island in Waikeria .which along with state care and borstal basically produced harden men which went on to start all the gangs we got today

  • @xantia2007
    @xantia2007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    I loved the snooker balls in the sock, classical

    • @141sharon270
      @141sharon270 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      We used P9 batteries, the big ones with 2 terminals.

    • @booma3069
      @booma3069 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      alan bane here we go again mate you need to come out nothing to be afraid of

    • @ItzJigz187
      @ItzJigz187 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@141sharon270 nowadays it's a goood old can of John west tuna. gets the job done and you've got snack after

    • @ItzJigz187
      @ItzJigz187 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @alan bane you ent seen Inside mate

    • @Unicysis
      @Unicysis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They call that a cosh, much like haze blanketing.

  • @bigboy0625
    @bigboy0625 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Who's watching this in 2023 ? How times have changed

  • @derekstocker6661
    @derekstocker6661 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Fabulous film, very well acted indeed and something like this could never be made now.
    Probably more true to life than we would wish but an absolute classic. Thanks for this.

    • @beer3029
      @beer3029 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The movie "Dog Pound" is a remake of this movie...granted it was made in 2010.

    • @derekstocker6661
      @derekstocker6661 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@beer3029 Thanks for the heads up, ordered.

    • @eric-vu1jy
      @eric-vu1jy ปีที่แล้ว +1

      THERES A FILM CALLED ‘BORSTAL’ FROM THE PAST 5 YEARS (UK FILM) WHICH I CANT BE FUCKED WITH AFTER SEEING THIS ORIGINAL CLASSIC….

  • @ldshasnobrain
    @ldshasnobrain 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Archer has the combined I Q of every screw and inmate in the prison. The Archer scene 1hr 1 min in is mindblowing...and hilarious

    • @gowdsake7103
      @gowdsake7103 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dont be fucking STUPID Ok he worked out how to be a pain in the ass but ANYONE who has been in the services would rip him apart mentally

    • @Debagio
      @Debagio 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gowdsake7103 How would they do this?

    • @edmund184
      @edmund184 ปีที่แล้ว

      he doesn't answer the screw's question

  • @manojmathur4003
    @manojmathur4003 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Love this film 🍿romper stomper is another one.

  • @solomon5726
    @solomon5726 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    1:18:38 James just caught the Davis in the process of stealing the greenhouse radio, so acting on pure heroism, pins the would be thief to the table with a combination of hammerlock and half nelson, just long enough so Mr. Sands enters the scene to prevent another radio to be stolen by the vile sex fiend Davis

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      All those so tough screws shitting themselves and locking themselves up when it kicks off is so typical of the type of people who work in these places

    • @solomon5726
      @solomon5726 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@michaelharrison3602 You are right, but Mr. Sands was a pacifist at heart, and he knew the Davis would not understand reasons, so he just let James grapple the radio thief into submission.
      So good

  • @arya9024
    @arya9024 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    The psych hospital I worked at was almost as brutal as this borstal. And they were in there only because they were unwell or intellectually handicapped . They did absolutely nothing wrong !!!

    • @fretboardmaster70
      @fretboardmaster70 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      One of my good mates younger Brother Daniel worked in a Psychiatric unit as an orderly in the late 80s. He had to quit after 4 months because of the brutality he witnessed there. He and some others was forced to hold patients down whilst they administered ECT without anesthetic or muscle relaxants. So much for modified ECT in NHS British Mental Hospitals. According to Daniel, most of the patients were educationally challenged and weren’t really causing trouble or were even psychotic or manic. The Electro Shocks were sometimes used as punishment and administered without consent.

    • @AaronHendu
      @AaronHendu ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Personal experience as someone who's spent a bit of time in a ward within the last decade...it's disgusting. I don't want to talk about specifics cause it's just triggering. It wasn't all bad, for me...but some people had it really awful in there and it makes me hurt just thinking about it.

  • @leeharryentwistle5624
    @leeharryentwistle5624 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    here in 2020 watching this for the second time and fast-forwarding the greenhouse scene, too much

    • @kaxeniakristelle7887
      @kaxeniakristelle7887 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Slomo the greenhouse scene! No please! No!!

    • @johnLennon255
      @johnLennon255 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@kaxeniakristelle7887 i know i hate corny romantic comedies too

    • @alexandertebbiche2292
      @alexandertebbiche2292 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree the greenhouse scene should've been cut out and also the scene where Davis cuts myself to death should've been cut out of the film as well

    • @leehenry5764
      @leehenry5764 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's to realistic

    • @dwangs465
      @dwangs465 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@alexandertebbiche2292 it should be kept in people need to know what happened to children in these places. It's incredibly hard to watch and upsetting but it happened to these poor kids.

  • @rebeccamay595
    @rebeccamay595 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    i was only young when my parents watched this and the rape scene really got to me. haunted me that even now in my 40's it still gets to me :(

    • @zypalitra8080
      @zypalitra8080 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This film is one of my favorite films but I've ever only seen the last 15-20 minutes of the film once or twice. Utterly nightmarish.

    • @michellethornton4297
      @michellethornton4297 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I hate that scene I just want to run up and cuddle him

    • @seansmith445
      @seansmith445 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not the type of film I would have wanted to watch with my parents.

    • @rebeccamay595
      @rebeccamay595 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@seansmith445 i don’t think I was watching it with them I’m not really sure how I saw the scene tbh

    • @sidewindersid4180
      @sidewindersid4180 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Misunderstood and abstract love making scene.

  • @Zebbo57
    @Zebbo57 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Hard watch at times but the Greenhouse scene is awful. Thanks for the upload.

  • @petrichor649
    @petrichor649 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I can't watch it, traumatised still after all these years.

    • @User10111
      @User10111 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hope u find some peace bro, 🙏

    • @jelenabrebric7716
      @jelenabrebric7716 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I am so sorry to hear that😯.
      I hope you will find your inner peace.
      This is just horrible, so horrible.

    • @DaROCKWILDER24
      @DaROCKWILDER24 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Jamie Coulson leave it mate ffs 😂

  • @SouthJerseySam
    @SouthJerseySam 3 ปีที่แล้ว +145

    Alan Clarke certainly didn't shy away from the brutal nature in any of his films. This is a prime example.

    • @SouthJerseySam
      @SouthJerseySam 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I wasn't exactly referring to that, but that definitely was an uncomfortable scene with a tragic outcome.

    • @robertbrighton9797
      @robertbrighton9797 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Always annoyed the rapists never got theirs from Carlin

    • @djdeemz7651
      @djdeemz7651 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@SouthJerseySam The Grin from the screw watching is most disturbing

    • @beardedloon77
      @beardedloon77 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Wasn't the original ,the firm, starring Gary Oldman one of Alan Clarkes? Its also a great film with some other really recognisable before their prime actors.

    • @SouthJerseySam
      @SouthJerseySam 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@beardedloon77 The Firm came out years after Scum

  • @alysskennedy8661
    @alysskennedy8661 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I spent from age 14 til 18 in a juvenile secure facility. Juvenile prison. They kept me doped up. Lots a terrible things went down in that place.

    • @JAFFATYREE--CHANNEL--DELETED
      @JAFFATYREE--CHANNEL--DELETED 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      yeh, or not so much keeping you doped up..
      but more so.. they kept you.. the Dope,. Down..

    • @RaptorFromWeegee
      @RaptorFromWeegee 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Like what? And what did you do to get sent there for four years?

  • @JayDee-iy5be
    @JayDee-iy5be 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I saw this years ago, I'd forgotten the brutal ending. The poor kid at the end... it was harrowing to watch.

  • @arserobinson7118
    @arserobinson7118 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    22:50 was the sickest part of the film, he was evil for stealing Eckersley's radio.

    • @matimus100
      @matimus100 ปีที่แล้ว

      Evil only comes from the religious

    • @arserobinson7118
      @arserobinson7118 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thou shalt not steal @@matimus100

    • @fenrirrising131
      @fenrirrising131 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@matimus100what a ridiculous sentiment. You should stop using that shrivled nut you call a brain as a doorstop.

  • @SupervoidCinema
    @SupervoidCinema 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Archer is a fascinating character.

    • @shaunogorman4644
      @shaunogorman4644 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I love Archer fave character and hilariously funny

    • @jackkalen5653
      @jackkalen5653 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Dirty cell Archer, governors report

    • @zypalitra8080
      @zypalitra8080 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The problem with Archer is that he's a well-intentioned idealist. His ideas work in principle, but almost ENTIRELY in principle, and he's too vain and idealistic to realise that and as a result he just comes across as a luvvie idealogue. Borstal was too violent, sure, but I'm saying that from a 21st-century perspective so I can't really comment on it.

    • @pastytit
      @pastytit 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Guys a muppet and ruins the film. He would have been beaten to death with that attitude.

    • @pastytit
      @pastytit 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Sir Kyushu clown

  • @stephensaxby2820
    @stephensaxby2820 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Brutal...uncompromising and absolutely brilliant...this is one of the all time great British films.

  • @erikjohansson6579
    @erikjohansson6579 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    I experienced this in Sweden in the late 90's.
    I spent all my adult life with PTSD and utter hatred towards the pig of men that bullied me. But it was more verbal and psychological then physical.

  • @stephenthompson2940
    @stephenthompson2940 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    Ray Winstone's been playing the same part ever since, well done Ray.

    • @gilliangrant8764
      @gilliangrant8764 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      He doesn't know how to play anything else

    • @fleshgordon6190
      @fleshgordon6190 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      He's the best

    • @mars7934
      @mars7934 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nah. He was Arnie in Minder after this. A cheerful mechanic but dumb as fuck.

    • @terryfahey8191
      @terryfahey8191 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mars7934 and auf weidersen pet

    • @mars7934
      @mars7934 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@terryfahey8191 Yes! The squaddie on the run.

  • @NE-locksmith
    @NE-locksmith 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +403

    Who’s watching in 2024?

    • @RAPINCITE
      @RAPINCITE 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      2 million have been watching to 2024

    • @philiptalbot
      @philiptalbot 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I am

    • @philiptalbot
      @philiptalbot 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ... some-thing is ‘stir-ing’ with😑in me ...

    • @rquetzal1532
      @rquetzal1532 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I did

    • @carlos-jq4yv
      @carlos-jq4yv 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Dont go in the greenhouse 😅

  • @WAKE-UP-BRITAIN
    @WAKE-UP-BRITAIN ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Proper classic this one 👌 goes deep in this, some brutal scenes and a real British film...Ray Winstone fit the part perfectly

  • @Starchaser63
    @Starchaser63 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Scum 1979 when I was 15 . I am watching this movie tonight decades later .. Time flies by 😊

  • @yvonnescholey8972
    @yvonnescholey8972 3 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    One of the most powerful dramas involving young actors I have ever seen, it is as haunting today as it was when it was first released. Well done to every member of the cast and crew, not forgetting the writers👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

    • @jameswinter9954
      @jameswinter9954 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Russell Collier tv version

    • @jameswinter9954
      @jameswinter9954 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Russell Collier I have that and the 40th blu ray indicator anniversary release

    • @jameswinter9954
      @jameswinter9954 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Russell Collier first watched this as a kid 12-13 yrs old and it scared me

    • @jubeaumont6305
      @jubeaumont6305 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jameswinter9954
      Oh, can you tell me some of the differences pls?
      This upscaled version looks really impressive to me because I've not seen it for about 10 years and that was when it was last on tv and that tv was a CRT !

    • @flashgordon6670
      @flashgordon6670 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      When I was a very young boy, my mother used to punish me by making me sit on a tall stool in the kitchen and I wasn’t allowed to get off it until she said, it was very boring a bore-stool. A few times she squashed my big toes under the stool’s legs and bruised them badly, once my toe nails fell off and she burned my face with the kettle. And she constantly psychologically tortured me by telling me I was an accident and other ways.
      That’s why I never went to prison when I got older and probably explains why I turned out the way I am now.
      I learned fast at home being the youngest of 3 boys as well, my home was worse than borstal. I also had an older girl cousin and aunties who “helped” when my family took time off and there were plenty of bullies and scummers at school and on the estate to help out as well.

  • @djaldo1792
    @djaldo1792 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    My poor mum decided to watch this movie a few days after I got sent to a young offenders institute 😂

    • @kenjohnson1041
      @kenjohnson1041 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I watched this a few days before I got sent to a Young offenders.took about 20 minutes to realise how real this was.a big holding cell with toilets..enough said

    • @djaldo1792
      @djaldo1792 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ronald Rubicon erm..probably? I don’t know I was locked up 🤨