Malcolm Venville learn to star in the film. Venville's feature film debut was "44 Inch Chest" (2009), a gangster film starring Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson and Ian McShane. It reunited the writers and some of the cast of an earlier British gangster film, "Sexy Beast" (2000). He also directed "Henry's Crime" (2010), a romantic comedy starring Keanu Reeves, James Caan, and Vera Farmiga. Malcolm Venville Malcolm Frank Venville (born 1962) is a British photographer and film director. Born in Birmingham, Venville was the child of deaf parents. He was, in the words of his uncle, "caught in some no-man's land
The Wild and the Willing McGillivray wrote, "an unsuccessful play, "The Tinker" - written when Angry Young Men were in vogue - is the source of this exposé of British student life. Once shocking, it has aged as badly as others of its ilk, but now has considerable curiosity value, not least because of early appearances by Ian McShane, Samantha Eggar, John Hurt and others. McShane shines as the scholarship boy who vents his wrath on privileged society". BFI Screenonline referred to the film as "Ralph Thomas's tepid student drama"; but Sky Movies concluded the film "still manages to generate moments of high excitement -