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Borstal Boy
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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“As a prisoner of war it is my duty to escape.”
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BORSTAL BOY Official Film Trailer
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- Mar 22, 2001
- 1h 31m
- Irish
- Peter Sheridan
- Peter Sheridan, Brendan Behan, Nye Heron
- Released
- $100.0K
- $87.4K
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