
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.

as Brendan Behan

as Charlie Milwall

as Jock

as Verreker

as Liz Joyce

as Mac

as Dale

as Customs man

as Manning

as Holmes

as Landlady

as Whitbread

as Alex

as Joyce

as Chief Dixon

as James

as Albert

as Jerzy

as Kydd

as Liberian

as Judge Goddard

as Republican in Court

as Mortimer

as Cragg

as Miller

as Borstal Boy

as Borstal Boy

as Borstal Boy

as Borstal Boy

as Borstal Boy

as Parson

as Soldier

as Sentry

as Rabbi

as First Lieutenant

as Priest (uncredited)

as IRA man (uncredited)

as Prostitute (uncredited)