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Overview
Release Date:
12 August 1979 (UK) moreTagline:
Fletcher's inside story - even funnier as a film.Plot:
This prison comedy is based on the popular British televison series of the same name. Long time Slade... more | add synopsisAwards:
1 win moreUser Comments:
Worth doing time for! moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Ronnie Barker | ... | Norman Stanley Fletcher | |
| Richard Beckinsale | ... | Lennie Godber | |
| Fulton Mackay | ... | Mackay | |
| Brian Wilde | ... | Barrowclough | |
| Peter Vaughan | ... | Grouty | |
| Julian Holloway | ... | Bainbridge | |
| Geoffrey Bayldon | ... | Governor | |
| Christopher Godwin | ... | Beal | |
| Barrie Rutter | ... | Oakes | |
| Daniel Peacock | ... | Rudge | |
| Sam Kelly | ... | Bunny Warren | |
| Ken Jones | ... | Ives | |
| Philip Locke | ... | Banyard | |
| Gorden Kaye | ... | Dines | |
| Oliver Smith | ... | McMillan |
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93 minCountry:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Fletcher: You're not doing yourself any favours, are you Banyard? All you're doing is getting up other people's noses.Banyard: We have certain rights.
Fletcher: No we don't, we're in the nick.
Ives: I suppose you think you're entitled to something better just because you went to a public school, is that it?
Banyard: On the contrary, Ives, I'm well used to this kind of food, I went to Harrow.
Fletcher: Oh that's a good advert for the public school system, prepares you for the nick. Course it's harder in here for him than for most of us, 'cause he has had further to drop. Professional man, you see. Dentist. Tragic.
Ives: What do you mean, Fletcher, 'tragic'? It's no laughing matter for that woman he had under the laughing gas.
Banyard: There's no need for that, Ives. We don't have to keep unearthing each other's past, I'm paying for my peccadilloes.
Fletcher: Oh that's good. If you're paying I'll have a large one.
Bunny Warren: What's a peccadillo?
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Finally got this on disk the other month. And it was worth the wait. As an avid Porridge and Ronnie Barker fan, I thought the film done justice to a really funny series. Other movie spin offs have been mundane(On the Buses, for example), but this one was well written and well acted. Starring the original cast from the series (apart from Christopher Biggins), it continued Norman Stanley Fletcher's fight against the system. Even though it did contain a couple of jokes from the program, its a mere overlook to a really funny film. Even Fletcher with his little scams (McKays teeth bein gone example) have trasferred well to the big screen version. This is one film you wouldn't want to do time!