Pete Postelwhaite's Death

Rating: 10/10 (3 January 2011)

On the day Pete P died I think it is important to remember that when the film In the Name of the Father was first released it was banned in Guildford. The local Odeon outlet refused to show it. The film's story is based on an IRA bombing of a Guildford pub. The people arrested and sentenced for this offense were clearly innocent but the Surrey Police did not see it like that.
Pete P was the consummate actor. A man who could say by the expression on his face all that had to be said about what was happening.
The Surrey Police are seriously indicted in this film but as far as I know they were never held to account. Guildford was too well set in its conventional ways to assume that a Irishman could be trusted.