Two-Way Stretch (1960)
- Directed by
- Robert Day
- Genre
- prison film, crime comedy film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Rated
- U
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 55 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A group of prisoners in a British jail hatch a scheme to sneak out, commit a robbery, and then return before anyone notices. Their plan runs into trouble when a strict new prison officer arrives to shake things up.
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What happens
Two-Way Stretch, also known as Nothing Barred, is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Robert Day and starring Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Lionel Jeffries, Bernard Cribbins, and David Lodge. The screenplay is by Vivian Cox, John Warren and Len Heath. A group of prisoners plan to break out of jail, commit a robbery, and then break back into their jail again, thus giving them the perfect alibi – that they were behind bars when the robbery occurred. However, their plans are disrupted by the arrival of a strict new Chief Prison Officer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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