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.
Genres
Drama
Studio
Film Trustees Ltd.
Language
en
Status
Released
How Let Him Have It performed
Budget
$3.7M
Worldwide Gross
$635,064
Gross Profit
−$3.1M
Return
0.2× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$91K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Derek Bentley
Christopher Eccleston
Derek Bentley
Christopher Craig
Paul Reynolds
Christopher Craig
William Bentley
Tom Courtenay
William Bentley
Lilian Bentley
Eileen Atkins
Lilian Bentley
Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe
Iain Cuthbertson
Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe
Fairfax
Tom Bell
Fairfax
Pierrepoint
Clive Revill
Pierrepoint
Stella
Serena Scott Thomas
Stella
Iris Bentley
Clare Holman
Iris Bentley
Niven Craig
Mark McGann
Niven Craig
Vincent Montgomery
Bert Tyler-Moore
Vincent Montgomery
Terry Stringer
Jack Deam
Terry Stringer
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