Let Him Have It
The shocking story of an unbelievable miscarriage of justice.
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the true case which would forever shake England's belief in capital punishment.
Director Peter Medak
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Cast
Iain Cuthbertson
Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe
Mark McGann
Niven Craig
Linda Bassett
Mrs. Miles
Karl Johnson
Parris
Michael Gough
Lord Goddard
Murray Melvin
Secondary School Teacher
Norman Rossington
Postman
Walter Sparrow
Nightwatchman
Ronald Fraser
Niven's Judge
Robert Morgan
PC Miles
Michael Elphick
Prison Officer Jack
Tom Courtenay
William Bentley
Serena Scott Thomas
Stella
James Villiers
Cassels
Rudolph Walker
West Indian Driver
Paul Reynolds
Christopher Craig
Eileen Atkins
Lilian Bentley
Tom Bell
Fairfax
Clare Holman
Iris Bentley
Peter Eyre
Humphries
Christopher Eccleston
Derek Bentley
Clive Revill
Pierrepoint
Edward Hardwicke
Approved School Principal
Jeremy Sinden
Soames, Daily Telegraph
Steve Nicolson
PC Harrison
Jack Deam
Terry Stringer
Charlie Creed-Miles
Second Boy in School
Peter Jonfield
Butcher
Vernon Dobtcheff
Clerk of Court
Bill Dean
Foreman of the Jury