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Porridge
Original Title
Doing Time- Director: Dick Clement
- Writer: Dick Clement; Ian La Frenais
- Producer: Ian La Frenais; Allan McKeown
CGiii Comment
A great sitcom made into a feature - it doesn't work.
The usual snappy dialogue is sparse and infrequent.
It may have been funny in the 70s but, alas, it has aged and is now a worthless relic of how filmmakers perceived their audiences of the time: gullible.
Sad.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
This prison comedy is based on the popular British television series of the same name. Long time Slade prison inmate Fletcher is ordered by Grouty to arrange a football match between the prisoners and an all-star celebrity team. Fletcher is unaware that the match is only a diversion so that an escape can take place. When Fletcher and his cell mate Lennie stumble on the escape, they are taken along, and find themselves having to break back into prison to avoid getting into trouble.
Cast & Characters
Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher;
Richard Beckinsale as Lennie Godber;
Fulton Mackay as Mackay;
Brian Wilde as Barrowclough;
Peter Vaughan as Grouty;
Julian Holloway as Bainbridge;
Geoffrey Bayldon as Treadaway - Governor;
Christopher Godwin as Beal;
Barrie Rutter as Oakes;
Daniel Peacock as Rudge;
Sam Kelly as Warren;
Ken Jones as Ives;
Philip Locke as Banyard;
Gorden Kaye as Dines;
Oliver Smith as McMillan