Damaged: The Very British Obscenity of David Hamilton-Grant
2023
71 minutes
Overview
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.
Top Cast
David Hamilton-Grant
Self (archive footage)
Jack Davenport
Narrator (voice)
Françoise Pascal
Self
Cheryl Gilham
Self
Julian Petley
Self
Kate Egan
Self
Antony I. Ginnane
Self
Derek Malcolm
Self
David Flint
Self
Clive Godden
Self
David McGillivray
Self
Marianne Morris
Self
Vic Pratt
Self
Brendan Price
Self
Fiona Richmond
Self
Geoffrey Robertson
Self
Derek Malcolm
Self (archive footage)
Mary Whitehouse
Self (archive footage)