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
Norman Rossington
Postman
Christopher Eccleston
Derek Bentley
Tom Bell
Fairfax
Clare Holman
Iris Bentley
Peter Jonfield
Butcher
Karl Johnson
Parris
Ronald Fraser
Niven's Judge
Robert Morgan
PC Miles
Michael Elphick
Prison Officer Jack
Clive Revill
Pierrepoint
Jeremy Sinden
Soames, Daily Telegraph
Iain Cuthbertson
Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe
Serena Scott Thomas
Stella
James Villiers
Cassels
Michael Gough
Lord Goddard
Walter Sparrow
Nightwatchman
Steve Nicolson
PC Harrison
Eileen Atkins
Lilian Bentley
Mark McGann
Niven Craig
Edward Hardwicke
Approved School Principal
Charlie Creed-Miles
Second Boy in School
Rudolph Walker
West Indian Driver
Jack Deam
Terry Stringer
Bill Dean
Foreman of the Jury
Vernon Dobtcheff
Clerk of Court
Paul Reynolds
Christopher Craig
Tom Courtenay
William Bentley
Linda Bassett
Mrs. Miles
Murray Melvin
Secondary School Teacher
Peter Eyre
Humphries