Two-Way Stretch

Two-Way Stretch
Original poster
Directed byRobert Day
Written byJohn Warren
Len Heath
Vivian Cox
Alan Hackney
(add'l dialogue)
Produced byE. M. Smedley-Aston
StarringPeter Sellers
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Maurice Denham
Lionel Jeffries
Beryl Reid
David Lodge
Irene Handl
Liz Fraser
Bernard Cribbins
CinematographyGeoffrey Faithfull
Edited byBert Rule
Music byKen Jones
Distributed byBritish Lion Films (UK)
Release date
  • 11 February 1960 (1960-02-11) (UK)
[1]
Running time
83 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£118,677[2]

Two-Way Stretch, also known as Nothing Barred, is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Robert Day and starring Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Lionel Jeffries and Bernard Cribbins.[3] The screenplay is by Vivian Cox, John Warren and Len Heath. A group of prisoners plan to break out of jail, commit a robbery, and then break back into their jail again, thus giving them the perfect alibi – that they were behind bars when the robbery occurred. However, their plans are disrupted by the arrival of a strict new Chief Prison Officer.

  1. ^ "Two Way Stretch". The British Film Institute. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  2. ^ Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 360
  3. ^ "Two-Way Stretch". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 5 January 2024.