Damaged: The Very British Obscenity of David Hamilton-Grant

Sarah Appleton
2023-07-06


6.5
71 min

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

Name Character Team
David Hamilton-Grant Self (archive footage) Unowned
Jack Davenport Narrator (voice) Unowned
Françoise Pascal Self Unowned
Cheryl Gilham Self Unowned
Julian Petley Self Unowned
Kate Egan Self Unowned
Antony I. Ginnane Self Unowned
Derek Malcolm Self Unowned
David Flint Self Unowned
Clive Godden Self Unowned
David McGillivray Self Unowned
Marianne Morris Self Unowned
Vic Pratt Self Unowned
Brendan Price Self Unowned
Fiona Richmond Self Unowned
Geoffrey Robertson Self Unowned
Derek Malcolm Self (archive footage) Unowned
Mary Whitehouse Self (archive footage) Unowned