Borstal Boy
Released
March 22, 2001
Runtime: 1h 31m
Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old IRA foot soldier, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England.
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Cast & Crew
Shawn Hatosy
Brendan Behan
Danny Dyer
Charlie Milwall
Robin Laing
Jock
Ian McElhinney
Verreker
Eva Birthistle
Liz Joyce
Mark Huberman
Mac
Lee Ingleby
Dale
Ronnie Drew
Customs man
- EG
Eamon Glancy
Manning
- DC
Dennis Conway
Holmes
- PL
Patricia Leventon
Landlady
- JO
John O'Toole
Whitbread
Luke Hayden
Alex
Michael York
Joyce
Mark Lambert
Chief Dixon
Eoin Slattery
James
- OS
Owen Sharpe
Albert
- VN
Viko Nikci
Jerzy
- PS
Peter Sheridan
Director
- NH
Nye Heron
Writer
- PS
Peter Sheridan
Writer
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