Peter Madaks film Let Him have It. stars Christopher Ecclesta as 19 year old Derek Bentley. Bentleys parents are played by Tom Courtenay and Eileen Atkins. After seeing the film it looks like the director wanted to portray a typical gangster f

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British society in the 1950's wasn't good. The Crime rate was very high as after the war. This is because there were a lot of guns lying around for children to take. Because it was hard to get perfume, alcohol, cigarettes or clothes, they were sold at markets. There were gangs who wanted to be like the gangsters in films they had seen, so they got hold of guns, so they could 'look the part' and quite possibly use them. Many films were made to portray this society such as dance with a stranger(Ruth Ellis) '10 Rillington Place' Christie Murders, to show viewers what life was like after the war, the conditions they lived in and there point of view of what 1950's lifestyle was like.

The acknowledged facts of the Christopher Craig and Derek Bentley case are that Derek Bentley was hanged for murder although he didn't actually commit the crime and got hanged for saying the words 'Let him have it.' This case was much known in the 1950's as locals and the press were outraged that Derek Bentley was being penalized for Christopher Craig's actions. Christopher Craig was too young to