SKINHEAD FAREWELLRARE DOCUMENTARYRare documentary looks at the success of authors such as Richard Allen who wrote imfamous books about Skinheads, Bootboys and Hooligans. Allen's fist novel, Skinhead, uneasily combined self-righteous fascist rhetoric, nihilist indifference and the shocked voice of reason. But it succeed with its authentic portrayal of Joe hawkins, the 16-year old gangster convinced the Cockneys had lost control of their patch, London, and whose life of rape, drink and hooliganism ends in a kind of triumph when he is jailed for beating a cop - a punishment which, he gloats, makes him king of the skinheads. Documentary combines old skinhead footage, book to screen re-enactments and interviews.
