Porridge (1979)

Directors

Dick Clement

Cast

Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Fulton Mackay, Brian Wilde, Peter Vaughan, Geoffrey Bayldon

The story

Slade Prison has two new inmates: Rudge, a nervous first offender, and Oakes, an armed robber. Rudge is assigned a job on the prison farm alongside Fletcher, known as Fletch, who takes him under his wing. Oakes approaches the prison's Mr Big, "Genial" Harry Grout, also known as Grouty, and using a cut from his last job before being caught, asks for his escape to be arranged.

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