- Two-Way Stretch
Infobox Film
name = Two-Way Stretch
caption = The DVD cover
director = Robert Day
producer =E.M. Smedley-Aston
writer =Alan Hackney
John WarrenLen Heath
starring =Peter Sellers Wilfrid Hyde-White Lionel Jeffries
David LodgeBernard Cribbins Maurice Denham Irene Handl Liz Fraser
music =Kenneth V. Jones
cinematography =Geoffrey Faithfull
editing =Bert Rule
distributor =British Lion Films
released = 1960
runtime = 83 min.
country =U.K.
awards =
language = English
budget =
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amg_id = 1:51460
imdb_id = 0054417 "Two-Way Stretch" is a Britishcomedy film of 1960, about a group of prisoners who plan to break out of jail, commit arobbery , and then break back into jail again, thus giving them the perfect - that they were behind bars when the robbery occurred. However, their plans are disrupted by the arrival of a strict new Chief Prison Officer, played byLionel Jeffries .It was directed by Robert Day from a screenplay by John Warren and Len Heath. The film boasts a rich cast of characters played by, among others,
Peter Sellers ,Bernard Cribbins .Maurice Denham later played disgraced Judge The Honourable Mr Justice Stephen Rawley in two episodes of the television seriesPorridge .The prison scenes were filmed at the West Cavalry Barracks at
Aldershot .Cast
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Peter Sellers (Dodger Lane)
*Lionel Jeffries (Prison Officer 'Sour' Crout)
*Wilfrid Hyde-White (Soapy Stevens)
*Bernard Cribbins (Lennie (The Dip) Price)
* David Lodge (Jelly Knight)
*Irene Handl (Mrs Price)
*Liz Fraser (Ethel)
*Maurice Denham (Horatio Bennett, the Prison Governor)
*Beryl Reid (Miss Pringle)
* George Woodbridge (Chief Prison Officer Jenkins)External links
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