Damaged: The Very British Obscenity of David Hamilton-Grant | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Explores the salacious career of mysterious British filmmaker and distributor David Hamilton-Grant, who was the only sup | dG1fY1VOM0plYlR0aGM

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00:00 David Hamilton Grant is the most notorious character in the entire history of the film industry.

00:08 A man of mystery quite unlike any other.

00:11 Take one, take one.

00:12 I would call Grant a pioneer of all kinds of sexploitation in this country.

00:20 I don't think he was a man of immense moral standing.

00:24 Most films they want you to strip off now.

00:27 Now you have to take your clothes off.

00:29 What in those days was called the casting couch and if you weren't interested, well that was it.

00:34 We'll do another take for the foreign version.

00:36 David Hamilton Grant, he adopted these films after they were made and he used porn actors and actresses to do sex scenes in them.

00:44 Films like that were popular because you couldn't get this kind of stuff any other place.

00:49 An evening watching the telly will never be the same again, I promise you.

00:53 He was left to new companies to flood the market with all sorts of horror and exploitation.

00:58 One company was David Hamilton Grant's World of Video 2000.

01:02 David Grant's idea was that maybe he could find a loophole in the censor laws in the UK.

01:08 He was a troublemaker.

01:10 He was actually trying to distribute some of the films which would in fact become called Video Nasties.

01:17 He didn't think they were particularly harmful, he used to joke about it.

01:20 Prepare yourself for the most intensely shocking motion picture of our time.

01:26 Nightmare in a damaged brain.

01:29 If the film was on that list, you could be prosecuted.

01:34 The obscene publication squad go to the distributors.

01:37 He is the only film distributor who was sent to prison for releasing a movie.

01:43 His last official sighting in the UK was in 1988.

01:47 Everything just suddenly spiralled out of control.

01:50 Hamilton Grant had used his premises to deal drugs and shoot pornography with local children.

01:55 Why haven't you arrested Grant for child pornography?

01:57 Three people told me that he was dead and two of them said that they suspected it was murder.

02:05 The Nightmare on the Prairie

02:10 [SWOOSH]