Damaged: The Very British Obscenity of David Hamilton-Grant
Jul 06 2023
•1h 11m
•Documentary
Explores the salacious career of mysterious British filmmaker and distributor David Hamilton-Grant, who was the only supplier to be sent to prison for releasing a "video nasty". Hamilton-Grant navigated loopholes in the law in the 70s in order to produce and screen smut in an extremely censorship restricted Britain. When the home video boom hit in the 80s he was one of the first to capitalize on the initially far less regulated format... but he would pay the price. Then things get really dark and strange.
Cast
See allDavid Hamilton-Grant
Self (archive footage)
Jack Davenport
Narrator (voice)
Françoise Pascal
Self
Cheryl Gilham
Self
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