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Post by Three Litre on May 23, 2020 18:25:05 GMT
Anyone seen this film starring Peter Sellers?
He plays a cockney con in a prison cell with David Lodge (Chalk and Cheese) and Bernard Cribbins.
Just watched it, I must have seen it before but you'd swear blind it was the inspiration for Porridge.
Sellers character is a wise-cracking cockney prisoner trying to get one over the establishment, there is a pushover prison warder (Geoffrey Woodbridge) in the style of Mr Barraclough who is replaced by a disciplinarian played by Lionel Jeffries who at one point falls through a hole in the ground made by the prisoners.
It also stars Maurice Denham as the Governor who starred in a couple of episodes of Porridge as the judge who put Fletcher down and ended up in his cell.
The delightful Liz Fraser plays Sellers girlfriend.
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Post by Del Boy on May 23, 2020 19:43:40 GMT
I haven't seen it but the cast looks great. Was this on TPTV , Three?
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Post by Three Litre on May 23, 2020 19:47:55 GMT
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Post by Del Boy on May 23, 2020 19:59:41 GMT
NIce one , thanks
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Post by Arthur Pringle on May 23, 2020 20:09:10 GMT
Have seen it a few times over the years, probably saw it first on Channel 4 one afternoon years ago. I confuse it with 'The Wrong Arm Of The Law' which is written by the same team & also stars Sellers.
No doubt La Frenais & Clement had seen Two Way Stretch. Grouty & his living conditions also reminds me of Bridger in 'The Italian Job'.
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on May 24, 2020 18:19:05 GMT
I remember seeing it I'm sure in the 80's one Sunday afternoon when the films of that era would ne shown on TV at that time, saw quite a few British films of that era at the time.
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Post by Three Litre on May 24, 2020 18:20:29 GMT
Peter Sellers was a brilliant comic actor but had very serious personality flaws, I watched that programme last week I think about his life.
Basically he let everyone down, including his own family and had a series of obsessions with various women.
Anyway, if you were a screenwriter and you saw that film you'd think there was a series in it if you could find the right cast, IMO.
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Post by Gene Hunt on May 24, 2020 18:37:00 GMT
I remember years ago talking to Graham Stark and I mentioned Sellers to him. He referred to him as a flawed genius. Though I don't personally rate him as a genius, he was very good and yes, he was flawed.
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Post by Carter on Jan 10, 2021 21:37:01 GMT
What a film. One of my favourites!! Some great cast members. A brilliant British classic. I can remember the theme and whistling it right now !! I’ve got the Australian film poster for it somewhere in my collection ( random !!) 😂😂. I’ll get a pic at some point 👍👍
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