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

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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