Let Him Have It

“The shocking story of an unbelievable miscarriage of justice.”

Derek Bentley (Christopher Eccleston) is a slow-witted young man in 1950s England, looked after by his parents and easily led by anyone who pays him attention. He falls in with a group of petty criminals around Chris Craig (Paul Reynolds), a teenager who loves American gangster films. Peter Medak tells this true story, the one that shook England's belief in capital punishment, in plain, even scenes that never lean on the ending.