Porridge (1979)
Fletcher's inside story - even funnier as a film
Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it.
- Date of release
- 1979-08-12
- TMDB
- 6.7 / 10 (40)
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime
- Director
- Dick Clement
Casting
- Ronnie Barker — Norman Stanley Fletcher
- Richard Beckinsale — Lennie Godber
- Fulton Mackay — Mr. Mackay
- Brian Wilde — Mr. Barrowclough
- Peter Vaughan — Grouty
- Julian Holloway — Mr. Bainbridge
- Geoffrey Bayldon — Governor Treadaway
- Christopher Godwin — Mr. Beal
- Barrie Rutter — Oakes
- Daniel Peacock — Rudge
- Sam Kelly — Warren
- Ken Jones — Ives
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