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Even though the prison conditions in which Sellers and his pals live are more similar to those of a luxury hotel than a jail, they find that they must leave a day before their scheduled parole in order to pull off a jewel heist. Read more

Starring Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde White, Lionel Jeffries, Beryl Reid
Director Robert Day
Genres Comedy

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Even though the prison conditions in which Sellers and his pals live are more similar to those of a luxury hotel than a jail, they find that they must leave a day before their scheduled parole in order to pull off a jewel heist.

Starring Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde White, Lionel Jeffries, Beryl Reid, David Lodge, Bernard Cribbins, Maurice Denham, Liz Fraser
Director Robert Day
Studio MOMENTUM PICTURES
Run time DVD: 1 hr 23 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate U.gif
Genres Comedy
Language English
Released DVD: 08 Jul 2002
Production year: 1960
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (3) of Two Way Stretch

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    Fans of Peter Sellers rate this British venture, made before he started to believe his own publicity, as one of the best things he did. It's a prison comedy that predates Porridge with a snarling stand-off between cocky convict Sellers, his cellmates Bernard Cribbins and David Lodge, and paranoid warden Lionel Jeffries. The plot — about a group of prisoners trying to break back into jail after a heist — is wonderfully developed and there are delightful cameos along the way from Irene Handl, Wilfrid Hyde White and Liz Fraser.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • Convicts Sellers, Cribbins and Lodge treat prison like a holiday camp and hatch a plan with bogus clergyman Hyde-White... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Great

    Peter Sellers stars in this comedic caper as Dodger Lane, a wily thief currently serving the last couple weeks of a prison sentence along with two of his partners in crime. Always looking for a way to make a big score, Dodger has concocted an ingenious plan for a jewel heist while maintaining a rock solid alibi: conduct the crime from inside the prison. With the help of a morally lax clergyman named Soapy Stevens, the trio plan to skip out prison, steal a maharajah's jewels and sneak back behind bars all on the day before they're due to be released. Unfortunately, a new and borderline psychotic prison guard arrives a few days before the heist and proceeds to make life behind bars a little more uncomfortable than Dodger and company would like.

      • Lee from Manchester
      • Posted 27 Oct 2004 08:58

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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    Classic British comedy

    Those golden years of British films (1950-1970) produced many a great crime comedy.

    Peter Sellers and the often underrated Wilfred Hyde-White excel in this jolly jaunt about Prison life and a cunning plan for one last big job! The supporting cast are excellent, and I am sure the old meek and mild prison warder must have served as a model for Mr Barraclough of 'Porridge' fame.

    The good black and white footage has transferred well to DVD. Recommended.

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