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