Two Way Stretch (1960)
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72% of users liked it
(807 ratings)
Peter Sellers stars as an inmate in a "model prison" run by Maurice Denham. Though Sellers is disinclined to escape (he's never been as comfortable in his life), he is convinced to do so by phony vicar Wilfred Hyde-White, who breaks into jail to outline a robbery scheme.… More Peter Sellers stars as an inmate in a "model prison" run by Maurice Denham. Though Sellers is disinclined to escape (he's never been as comfortable in his life), he is convinced to do so by phony vicar Wilfred Hyde-White, who breaks into jail to outline a robbery scheme. Hyde-White's plan is to have Sellers and his cellmates David Lodge and Bernard Cribbins take a brief "vacation" from jail, pull off a big-time robbery, then return undetected to prison, thereby establishing a perfect alibi. Within its 87-minute time span, Two-Way Stretch takes satirical potshots at political bleeding hearts, obese Middle Eastern potentates, and regulation-bound British police officials. One cannot be faulted for wishing that Peter Sellers had stuck to engaging small-scale British farces such as this and had never ventured into such unamusing big-budgeters as The Bobo and There's a Girl in My Soup. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Robert Day
- Genres
- Classics, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Dec 20, 1960 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Easily forgettable.
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Cast
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Peter Sellers
as Dodger Lane
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Wilfrid Hyde-White
as Soapy Stevens
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David Lodge
as Jelly Knight
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Bernard Cribbins
as Lennie Price
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Maurice Denham
as Comdr. Horatio Bennet, The Governor
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Lionel Jeffries
as Chief P.O. Crout
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Irene Handl
as Mrs. Price
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Liz Fraser
as Ethel
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Cyril Chamberlain
as Gate Warder (Day)
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Edwin Brown
as Warder Charlie
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John Glyn-Jones
as The Lawyer
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Beryl Reid
as Miss Pringle
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Noel Hood
as Miss Prescott
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Myrette Morven
as Miss Meakin
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Thorley Walters
as Col. Parkright
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Walter Hudd
as Rev. Patterson
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Joe Gibbons
as Dustman
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John Wood
as Captain
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Robert James
as Police Superintendent
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Mario Fabrizi
as Jones
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William Abney
as Visiting Room Warder
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Olga Dickie
as Woman in Pub
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Wallas Eaton
as Night Warder
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Eynon Evans
as Solicitor
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John Harvey
as Governor Rockhampton Prison
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Warren Mitchell
as Tailor
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Arthur Mullard
as Fred
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Larry Taylor
as Warder at Rockhampton
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John Vivyan
as Little Prisoner
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George Woodbridge
as Chief P.O. Jenkins
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Ian Wilson
as Milkman
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Edward Dentith
as Detective
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Andrew Downie
as Warder in Prison Garden
