Porridge

Porridge

★ 6.7IMDb Score
Released:1979-08-12
Duration:93 min
Director:Dick Clement
Actors:Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Fulton Mackay, Brian Wilde, Peter Vaughan
Production:Witzend Productions, Black Lion Films
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Overview:

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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