"As a prisoner of war it is my duty to escape."
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.
Brendan Behan

Charlie Milwall

Jock

Verreker

Liz Joyce

Mac

Dale

Customs man

Manning
Holmes
Landlady
Whitbread
Alex

Joyce

Chief Dixon

James

Albert

Jerzy
Kydd

Liberian
