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