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