Alan Clarke – MRQE

Scum (TV)

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A hard and shocking story of life in a British borstal for young offenders. [This is the original version scheduled for broadcast on ‘Play for Today’ on 8-Nov-1977 but withdrawn by the BBC because it was deemed too controversial. Director Alan Clarke edited the film and released it in cinemas in 1979 (See ‘Scum (1979)’). The BBC would eventually broadcast the original on 27-Jul-1991.]

Play for Today:: A Follower for Emily (TVE)

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Harry and Emily are two of the livelier residents of a London old people’s home. When they decide to get married, things prove less simple.

Screen Two:: Contact (TVE)

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A platoon of British paratroopers on border patrol in South Armagh face a series of tense encounters.

Made in Britain (TV)

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After being sent to a detention centre, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers who want to conform him to the status quo.

Screen Two:: The Firm (TVE)

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A European (Gary Oldman) organizes his gang of rabid soccer fans for a fight with a rival gang before a 1988 match.

Rita, Sue and Bob Too!

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Rita and Sue are two teenagers living on a run-down council estate in Bradford, who both share a job babysitting for Bob and Michelle’s children. Whilst giving them a lift home one night, Bob decides to take Rita and Sue up to a deserted, country-side landscape. Clearly knowing what he has in mind, Rita and Sue are only too happy to oblige and both have a sexual encounter with him that becomes a regular occurrence.

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Cocky cockney snooker player Billy Kid accepts the challenge of a grudge match from Maxwell Randall (the Green Baize Vampire), six times world champion; the loser will never play professional snooker again.

Elephant (TV)

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A depiction of a series of violent killings in Northern Ireland.

Scum

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys’ struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain’s notorious Borstal Reformatory. [This is the feature film version Alan Clarke made after the BBC banned the original before its scheduled TV broadcast (see Scum (1977)].

Jaani Dushman

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A cool hard study of ‘the art of the deal’ on a global scale. Sir Peter, the chillingly affable chief exec of big British multi-national UKM, learns that the Soviet Union’s chief scientists are in London with government credit to spend. He’s keen to flog them a tyre-production plant. based in the Ukraine, which will unshackle UKM from bothersome unions at home. But at the negotiating table, it fast becomes apparent that the Soviets are more interested in the laser technology UKM employs to vulcanise their tyres; and Peter starts to foresee a new future in military aerospace for his ever fiexible firm.