The film Scum was released in 1979 and is a no-holds-barred depiction of life within the British Borstal system. Due to the film’s extremely violent nature and the profuse use of foul language Scum became one of the most controversial films of the 1980s and Mary Whitehouse campaigned to have it banned. Being banned was nothing new for Scum though, because it was a remake of a television programme that the BBC decided not to broadcast because they deemed it to be too violent: Scum Was a Remake, But Nobody Knew It.
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