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depressing, realistic look at a justice case gone wrong.
christopher plays the main character put to death for a crime he didn't do. <
>he was hanged for it. <
>mixing in with the wrong set of people, he finds himself the <
>center of conviction for a man's death in a shooting. <
>a "friend" of his is on a rooftop with him, being chased by <
>police. his friend points the gun at the guy. the cop says <
>to hand the gun over. he refuses. then christopher, not wanting <
>any more trouble with the law, says "let him have it"---- <
>meaning give the cop the gun....NOT SHOOT HIM. <
>thus began a trial of a misunderstood phrase with led to a death sentance. to this day, family members in england are still trying to clear his name for innocence. <
>sad, well acted, and extremely thought provoking. <
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A Magnificent Achievement!!!
I won't bother telling the plot of this film since so many other reviewers have outlined it in great detail. I will only say there is no greater cinematic indictment of the death penalty than this devastating film. What gives it special significance, of course, is that it is based on a true case - a case that eventually led to abolition of capital punishment in Great Britain. I shutter to think of the number of innocent people executed in countries (including the so-called "civilized" United States) practicing capital punishment in order to satisfy the public's hasty and often misguided need for revenge. LET HIM HAVE IT will have a profound impact on anyone who sees it, regardless of his/her stand on the death penalty.

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Heart Wrenching but ...
This movie had an enormous emotional impact on me. I think it brought me close to tears when I first saw it. Perhaps the saddest scene in it is the one when he asks his mother about his date with the hangman, "Is it going to hurt?" <
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>My main complaint with this movie is the fact that it totally focuses on the injustice done to Derek Bentley. The police officer who was murdered that night gets perhaps two lines of dialogue. After his death, the only reference to him is that his widow didn't call for Bentley's death. <
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>Even though I remain a supporter of the death penalty, I don't think that Bentley should have been executed. I do think that the man needed to be in a controlled environment because he did engage in criminal activity that night, and someone died because of it. <
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>With that said, I wish the movie had given maybe five more minutes of character development to the police officer. Bentley being executed was a miscarriage of justice. But so was the killing of the police officer. Bentley didn't get a fair trial or due process, but the police officer didn't get any trial or process at all. <
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>Think about it when you watch this movie.