[dir. CLARKE, Alan] MINTON, Roy The Boys In Black [Scum]
London: Kendon Films, 1978
97 mimeographed pp., bound in dark blue stiff paper wrappers secured with two split pins to left edge. Title window to front wrapper. Inked number ’44’ and an illegible ownership signature to title page. Some wear to outsize wrappers, but a well preserved copy.
Draft screenplay, dated December 1978 to title page, of the 1979 film version of the play banned by the BBC in 1977. Directed by Alan Clarke, with a cast including Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Phil Daniels and Ray Burdis.
Roy Minton’s brutal story of life in a British borstal (a young offenders’ institution) was commissioned by the BBC’s Play for Today strand in 1978, but when director Alan Clarke delivered the finished film the BBC decided it was too brutal to be broadcast and banned it. In 1979 Clarke made this even more brutal film version, stunningly acted and directed, and as brilliant as it is difficult to watch. The original BBC version was not broadcast until 1991. And in a development not unconnected with the release of the film, the borstal system was abolished in 1982.
A scarce screenplay, and a significant social document.
[dir. CLARKE, Alan] MINTON, Roy The Boys In Black [Scum]
London: Kendon Films, 1978
97 mimeographed pp., bound in dark blue stiff paper wrappers secured with two split pins to left edge. Title window to front wrapper. Inked number ’44’ and an illegible ownership signature to title page. Some wear to outsize wrappers, but a well preserved copy.
Draft screenplay, dated December 1978 to title page, of the 1979 film version of the play banned by the BBC in 1977. Directed by Alan Clarke, with a cast including Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Phil Daniels and Ray Burdis.
Roy Minton’s brutal story of life in a British borstal (a young offenders’ institution) was commissioned by the BBC’s Play for Today strand in 1978, but when director Alan Clarke delivered the finished film the BBC decided it was too brutal to be broadcast and banned it. In 1979 Clarke made this even more brutal film version, stunningly acted and directed, and as brilliant as it is difficult to watch. The original BBC version was not broadcast until 1991. And in a development not unconnected with the release of the film, the borstal system was abolished in 1982.
A scarce screenplay, and a significant social document.
