Film Director Peter Medak.
Film director Peter Medak. Medak's new movie, "Let Him Have it," is the true-life story of two London teenagers who shot a policeman in 1952. What makes the case controversial is that the boy who actually pulled the trigger was a minor, and therefore couldn't get the death penalty. The other boy was put to death, even though there's evidence that he was trying to surrender. Medak's own life reads like a movie...he was born in Hungary, fled the Nazis and later the Communists, arrived nearly penniless in London, worked his way up through the business, and eventually make movies like "The Ruling Class" and "The Krays."
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