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	Scum - film starring Ray Winstone (1979)
		According to Adam Jahnke, in August 2004 a limited edition five-disc set of director Alan Clarke's films is being released.
		On 27 July 1991 BBC2 aired the first screening of the TV version of Scum, which was a 1977 Play for Today which had been banned and took 14 years to be shown.
		Scum is powerful, disturbing and moving; it is also absorbing, exciting entertainment with inbuilt suspense and paced to allow for the nervous relief of laughter.
	www.copperlily.com /AboutRayWinstone/Scum.html (652 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Scum (film)
		Scum is a film made in 1979 portraying the brutality of life inside a British borstal.
		The film is violent, with a vicious male rape scene that leads to the suicide of the victim.
		The film ends with the governor informing the prisoners of their forfeiture of privileges until the damage is paid for, and ordering a silent prayer for the two dead inmates.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Scum_(movie) (3657 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Scum [1979] (Ray Winstone): DVD: Ray Winstone,Mick Ford,Julian Firth,John Blundell,Phil Daniels,John Judd ...
		The film powerfully and sensationally portrays one man's struggle against all odds to be top dog in a system that is intent on breaking his spirit.
		This film was fantastic, considering how old it is. It was very moving and even though it's based at Borstel you start to feel for the inmates, how they were bullied, tormented and even raped.
		Scum is an excellent portrayal of the brutalization of young offenders in a borstal.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Scum-Ray-Winstone/dp/B00004CZI8 (938 words)

	Scum (1977) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Scum was originally apart of a trilogy that writer Roy Minton and Director Alan Clarke thought of whilst they were making Funny Farm in 1975.
		The television version of Scum is probably the most famous TV movie to be made in great Britain.
		As the film opens we meet the other trainees (inmates) and we begin to realize that they are far from the criminal hooligans that we would expect them to be.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0200095 (755 words)

	Removing and Cleaning Soap Scum
		That’s because soap scum can not be removed easily with just a natural rinsing of the bath tub.
		To get rid of the soap scum gray ring that is around your bath tub, you need to pay particular attention to it.
		You can use this, which is a furniture oil, to help remove and keep soap scum from building up in your bathroom shower or tub.
	www.mrscleannw.com /tips/soap-film.html (859 words)

	Scum (BBC) DVD review
		Most of the performances lack the extraordinary confidence they have in the film and there are none of the compellingly executed 'walking shots' that were to become a trademark aspect of the director's visual style.
		As the film builds, simmers and finally explodes, the viewer is left with the image of a system that does not strengthen character nor install respect for authority, but brutalises and destroys, takes young men who have broken the rules and moulds them into hardened criminals.
		The soundtrack is 2 channel mono and, given the age of the film and the inerrant problems of filming in on location, sometimes in wide shots where microphones needed to be hidden to be effective, the quality and clarity of the sound is impressive throughout.
	www.dvdoutsider.co.uk /dvd/reviews/scumbbc.html (1509 words)

	THE ALAN CLARKE COLLECTION
		In short, the film's intention is neither to condemn nor condone Trevor, but rather to simply show him for what he is — and, implicitly, to raise awareness that there are a lot of "Trevors" out there.
		That the film works as well as it does is due in no small measure to Oldman, who makes Bex work as a three-dimensional human being; the fact that Clarke allows him the opportunity to play a loving father, husband and all-around caring family man makes his "side life" all the more shocking and engrossing.
		All the films are in good shape, though it comes as no surprise that there is some heavy grain in the BBC titles.
	www.eccentric-cinema.com /cult_movies/alan_clarke_collection.htm (1402 words)

	THE ALAN CLARKE COLLECTION - DVD
		His films are of inverted optimism, hoping against hope that something might come of their revelations--something like the collapse of the building that houses the Thatcher nightmare.
		Scum 2.0 is an entirely more orderly affair, clearly benefiting from a higher budget: the semi-formed visual ideas of the BBC original are deployed with greater sophistication (especially the set-up of the climactic riot), while the hospital-clean walls radiate oppression like some social-realist Clockwork Orange.
		Bex is linked with Scum's Carlin and Made in Britain's Trevor by his determination to climb to the top of the shit-heap, although his mountain is merely boredom: he's somehow not satisfied with his gentrified lot and thus searches for a rush in thoroughly pointless skirmishes with other firms.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/alanclarkecollection.htm (3145 words)

	Scum (1977) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Scum has been one of my favourite films for the past couple of years and ever since I first saw it I've wanted to see the original banned BBC version.
		The '79 Scum is still as shocking and graphic now as it was 25 years ago whereas this version is somewhat tame.
		It seems pretty unusual for a film to be remade using the same director and (mostly) the same cast but it's actually not unheard of for a director to remake their own film.
	imdb.com /rg/title-lhs/title-prev/title/tt0200095 (894 words)

	Scum of the earth \| Features \| Guardian Unlimited Film
		Le Corbeau was made by a film company controlled by the Nazis, and that made for some suspicions that the film was collaborationist; this was the more easily felt in that the movie is so horrified at the texture of French provincial life.
		What prompted this film was the discovery of a method - that of filming from behind a translucent canvas - so that we can see drawings coming to life, and the face of Picasso at work.
		I'm not sure that the film is really so profound (in part because nothing can curb the show-off in Picasso), but it was a gimmick and a modest sensation, as well as a final discovery that there was something in life Clouzot cared about.
	film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,4120,1005900,00.html (1419 words)

	DVD Review - Scum: 2-Disc Limited Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A sobering account of life in a juvenile detention center, the "Scum: 2-Disc Limited Edition" DVD set is a grim, thoroughly depressing journey that hits the viewer in the gut like a sock full of billiard balls.
		Harsh and uncompromising, the film details the system of fear and violence that such institutions instill in their prisoners.
		Originally conceived as a made-for-television film for the BBC, "Scum" was pulled from airing due to its controversial subject matter.
	www.dvdreview.com /reviews/pages/2385.shtml (2301 words)

	That Elusive Surface Scum
		Surface scum is primarily composed of water-insoluble organic compounds (proteins, fats, aromatics, etc) from fish food, and/or from the decay of plant and animal matter in your aquarium.
		As the scum is both water-insoluble and lighter than water, it floats.
		I've even let my tanks "sit" for a couple days prior to a water change, let the scum settle on the surface, and used my python to "skim" the surface water, all of which is removed in the water change.
	www.thekrib.com /Plants/Algae/surface-scum.html (1732 words)

	DVD Outsider: Scum (feature) DVD review
		Many of these films were decent if unremarkable, but just occasionally were extraordinary enough to convince you that attending the first week of its release made you part of cinema history (Alien, Halloween, Eraserhead).
		This adds an undeniable urgency and vigour to an already gripping scene, and was a signpost of things to come, when Clarke would later shoot entire films on Steadicam using walking shots (although the Steadicam was invented and in use by now, the walking shots in Scum were done hand-held), culminating in the extraordinary Elephant.
		The interviews themselves are very worthwhile - Parsons gives some useful background on the genesis of the film version and the controversy that followed its release, and Minton muses on one of the key differences between the BBC and film versions.
	www.dvdoutsider.co.uk /dvd/reviews/scum.html (1967 words)

	Society of Cutting Up Movies
		SCUM president Sir Thomas Quint stated that he believed that this disturbing trend was the result of the popularity of a recent foreign film, the highly unwholesome Fourteen.
		SCUM director Darius Robbins, who recently announced that he would soon be leaving the Board to become a vicar, stated that he hoped the spread of Slaughter Cafes could be staunched before his departure.
		SCUM examiner Courtney Deborell, who was responsible for classifying the work with a much-deserved 18, noted that she had been forced to refuse classification to the DVD-videogram audio commentary, which featured the director and her underage cast laughing and hollering at particularly offensive moments, and urging young viewers to copy the heinous acts.
	whiggles.landofwhimsy.com /scum (5453 words)

	SCUM Manifesto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The SCUM Manifesto (Society for Cutting Up Men Manifesto) is a misandrous tract written in 1968 by Valerie Solanas which advocated a violent anarchic revolution to create an all-female society.
		Scum Manifesto is also a 1976 movie written by Valerie Solanas and directed by Carole Roussopoulos and Delphine Seyrig.
		Solanas' creative work and relationship with Andy Warhol is depicted in the 1996 film, I Shot Andy Warhol, a significant portion of which relates to the SCUM Manifesto, and Solanas' disputes on notions of authorship with Warhol and second wave feminists.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/SCUM_Manifesto (599 words)

	Stalin's Image in Film
		Seeing is believing, or so the axiom goes, and to a generation new to film what was on the screen might as well have been happening right in front of them.
		A theme in early Stalin era film was the contrast between the bourgeois White forces of the civil war and the altruistic Communists, Stalin in particular.
		In the film, an American circus star is run out of her Kansas home after giving birth to a Black child.
	it.stlawu.edu /~rkreuzer/indv2/confilm.htm (734 words)

	notcoming.com \| Scum
		SCUM is a shocking, compelling, disturbing and realistic portrayal of violence in a contempoary Borstal, a brilliant film with gripping performances and direction.
		Due to the disturbing and violent nature of the film, it was banned by the BBC and never aired.
		In the BBC film (finally shown about two years ago by the BBC), there is a gay plot line where the Winstone character has a young man as his “wife” and is clearly implied to have him as a sexual partner.
	www.notcoming.com /screeninglog.php?id=40&month=February+05 (894 words)

	Rebelscum.com: Reviews of the Scum
		If the film is based on a book or other media, it will never live up to the expectations of fans.
		And while there were points that made me sit back and remember I was watching a film, there were definitely more parts that totally swept me away.
		He successfully bridges the prequels and the original trilogy to such an extent, that further exploration of characters between the films, however enjoyable, is actually unnecessary.
	www.rebelscum.com /rots-review-shepard.asp (455 words)

	70s movie database at Escape to the Seventies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		SCUM was released in 1979 and was THE British film everyone was talking about that year.
		All the performances in the film are very good but Winstone really shines through, and it’s amazing that he didn’t become an almost star until the late 90s.
		It truly is a disturbing scene as is the victim’s suicide, but since the plot ended about two thirds of the way through the film I can’t help thinking it was all so unnecessary and was put in as a sensationalist note in order to court controversy.
	www.escape-to-the-seventies.com /films/scum.htm (533 words)

	Tea'd off - scientists analyze scum in tea - Column Discover - Find Articles
		When the cup or pot is empty, the film can cling to the sides like grime in a bathtub.
		Spiro and his collaborator, chemist Deogratius Jaganyi, brewed tea in beakers and then scooped the scum from them, washed it, dried it, and studied it under a scanning electron microscope.
		About 15 percent of the scum was a white, flaky material that turned out to be calcium carbonate, and the rest was a complex organic material.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1511/is_n9_v15/ai_15770754 (936 words)

	Interviews - "Terminal Scum Explosion"
		films which reflect the aesthetic concerns of Persian filmmakers such as Makhmalbaf and Kiarostami, though he was brought up in the U.S. and is culturally American and didn't see any Iranian films until his career was well underway.
		JM: I am disgusted by films that lack a "vision"—a cohesive or strong "attitude" or maybe what you would call "voice." It seems like many industry films are made to satisfy the public's or advertiser's wants and needs rather than taking a specific artistic stance while retaining an original voice.
		I do prefer the work projected as film, but then again I've also witnessed a lot of bad film projection—out of focus, no sound, upside-down, burned images, equipment breaking down in the middle of the movie, bulbs burning out—not to mention people with big hair in front of you, fights, vomiting, etc.
	www.braintrustdv.com /interviews/terminal.html (2212 words)

	Prison Film Project
		Although the inmate group is shown to be divided, both by 'race' and status within the institutional hierarchy, the deaths of two of their peers underlines a shared hostility to authority and leads to a riot as a protest over conditions.
		The film was essentially similar to the BBC play although writer Roy Minton recalls that the original involved the Carlin character being shown to have a sexual involvement with one of the younger inmates, a storyline that was dropped from the later film.
		On its release Scum was certainly seen as a shocking and violent but also acclaimed as a 'must see' indictment of the borstal system.
	www.theprisonfilmproject.com /prisonfilmanalysis/filmlist/scum.htm (845 words)

	Total Film - Scum
		Scum exposed a brutalising system of suicides, violence and sadistic screws.
		One-woman moral majority Mary Whitehouse decided it was unfit for public consumption and it became one of the most controversial British films ever made.
		Theatrical trailer, interview with co-producer Clive Parsons and writer Roy Minton, production notes.Clarke remade the film in 1979 for a theatrical release (it arrived on video in 1990) and the trailer gives a sense of how floored Beeb chiefs must have been when they saw what a monster he’d created.
	www.totalfilm.com /dvd_reviews/scum2 (255 words)

	Reel Streets - British Film Locations 1920's To 1980's
		There are hundreds more films to be investigated and put up onto the site, do you have some we haven't listed, let us know, do you know where they were made.
		A site devoted to British film locations, and the places where movies were made in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, in the years 1920's to the late 80's.
		To Catch a Spy, Turn the Key Softley, Where the Spies Are, To The Devil a Daughter, To Sir With Love, Saphire, Flame in the Streets, Flight of the Doves, Stage Fright, Sunday Bloody Sunday........
	www.reelstreets.com (634 words)

	Scum (1979) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The film follows the fortunes of him and the other inmates there and Carlin's relentless quest to come out as 'the daddy' among the other hard-case cons...
		Yet the very purpose of this film, made over 20 years ago, was to show the abuse of human rights that was taking place at the time in the borstals in Britain and to get something done in the way of changing it.
		Scum is a film that is thoroughly deserving of it's cult status, a film that spurned those in power into action and, though dealing with issues that are nowhere near as bad as back then, is no less as shocking and disturbing.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0079871 (711 words)

	B&W Photo - Film & Processing Forum - photo.net
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	www.photo.net /bboard/forum?topic_id=1541 (565 words)

	Casablanca (1942)
		Clips or references to the film have been used in Play It Again, Sam (1972), Brazil (1985), My Stepmother is an Alien (1988), and When Harry Met Sally (1989).
		And Bergman wasn't even nominated for this film, but instead was nominated for Best Actress for For Whom The Bell Tolls (and she lost to Jennifer Jones in The Song of Bernadette).
		As he informs them that the "scum of Europe has gravitated to Casablanca" and warns them to "be on guard" for "vultures," he lifts the gentleman's wallet.
	www.filmsite.org /casa.html (3130 words)

	Horror Cinema
		Another of Dark Sky Film's re-releases, this was a pretty scary little treat once upon a time.
		Another of Dark Sky Film's re-releases, this TV terror is a joy to behold all over again.
		Lawrence Harvey's final film and directorial debut is the story of a psycho-sexual pervert.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Horror/horror.html (1761 words)

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