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Porridge

Fletcher's inside story - even funnier as a film

1979 · PG-13 · 1h 33m

Directed by Dick Clement

6.8

TMDB audience score
41 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • 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

  • Philip Locke
    Banyard

  • Gorden Kaye
    Dines

  • Oliver Smith
    McMillan

  • Andrew Dunford
    Armstrong

  • Steve Steen
    Wellings

  • Ivan Steward
    Simkin