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Sense of Freedom

A Sense of Freedom is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on April 1985.

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A SENSE OF FREEDOM

Starring DAVID HEYMAN as JIMMY BOYLE

With ALEX NORTON, JAKE D'ARCY, SEAN SCANLAN, FULTON MACKAY

Screenplay by PETER McDOUGALL

Based on the book by JIMMY BOYLE

Produced by JEREMY ISAACS

Directed by JOHN MACKENZIE

Extortion. Protection. Violence. Such was the life of Glasgow's toughest racketter in the Sixties. Until he was sentenced to life imprisonment -- for murder.

Behind bars, with nothing to lose, Jimmy vents his frustration and hatred on the prison wardens whose equally brutal reprisals only provoke further attacks. Carrying prison protest to its utmost limits, he is moved from one jail to another -- until finally the authorities admit defeat.

Only one place is willing to take him -- a place which offers a new life, another alternative...