Let Him Have It

Let Him Have It

1991 · 1 hr 55 min · R

Crime, Drama, History

Directors

Peter Medak

Actors

  • Tom Courtenay
  • Christopher Eccleston
  • Eileen Atkins

Credits: 4

Summary

This drama reveals the controversial postwar 1950's London murder trial that sent an intellectually challenged young man to the gallows for a murder he did not commit.

More about this movie

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 movies. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the case which would forever shake the United Kingdom's belief in capital punishment.

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