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THE WEE MAN

By Ray BURDIS

ONE2SEE MOVIES-TWO TALL GUYS - as DISTR TV, DVD-video, VOD

Thriller - Completed 2012

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Thriller
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Duration
- 100 mn
- Director(s)
- Ray BURDIS
- Writer(s)
- Ray BURDIS
- Cast
- Denis LAWSON, John HANNAH, Martin COMPSTON, Rita TUSHINGHAM, Stephen MCCOLE
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-8950-0000-S-0000-0000-R
- EIDR
- 10.5240/18FF-5510-0318-6A28-58B1-2
- Synopsis
- This is a true story on the life of a ordinary young kid from decent hardworking
  parents, brought up in the notorious area of Black Hill, Glasgow and his journey
  through his teenage years to manhood (Paul Ferris).
  The story is set in the sixties, Paul Ferris a young 11-year-old boy, already has learned
  that life on the street is tough. Everybody knows his place. Poverty breeds corruption,
  crime, violence and bullying. Black Hill was top of the list.
  Paul had to witness drunken men fighting on the streets, a corrupt police force, which
  dealt with the violence with their own kind of violence. For instance, six bully
  policemen kicking some guy half to death, why no one dare ask questions? Paul’s
  father instilled in him, know nothing say nothing do nothing and you can survive.
  Never grass.
  Nobody gets to choose where they are born or to what environment. Paul Ferris’s
  world was its tough, get tougher; although he could fight his corner he was not a large
  kid. Skinny by appearance, the older boys took to bullying him. Paul accepted that
  was the way it was, but never forgot his time may come. It is true that some people
  move on from their environment, but success usually comes from within your
  environment, Paul moved towards his teenage years inevitably drifted into crime and
  violence. It was the way of life.
  After some revenge on a childhood bully, he was noticed by a local gangster Arthur
  Thompson (The Godfather, as he was known). He was soon seconded to work for the
  gang as a henchman; after all, he was the biggest gangster in Glasgow.
  As far as Arthur knew, Paul was never comfortable working for The Godfather and he
  hated his son, a fat slob, who lives off his father’s reputation bullying people for
  affect.
  Corruption was rife in the police and The Godfather had many police officers on the
  take, it was later found out that he was also a police informer.
  It was not long before he set Paul Ferris up as a sacrifice to the police, because they
  needed a high profile arrest to appease the hierarchy. A rival gangster who was
  nicknamed The Snake coaxed Paul into working with him to bring about the downfall
  of The Godfather, but he was just as untrustworthy, so Paul decided to go it alone.
  Everybody in Glasgow expected Paul to go to prison for a long time after the drugs
  and firearms set up, but the corrupt police had not done there job properly and the
  court let him go. Paul was out on the street, the tables had turned, and the gangsters
  and the bully’s now have to face the reality and the repercussions of Paul Ferris that
  was to come. What would be his vengeance?
  This film depicts the true-life story of Paul Ferris, the most feared man in Glasgow.