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Year:
Duration:
78 min | 87 min (TCM Print)
Genres:
Comedy | Crime
IMDB rate:
7
Director:
Robert Day
Details
Country: UK
Release Date: 1960-03-04
Filming Locations: Fittleworth station - disused, Fittleworth, West Sussex, England, UK
Cast
Actor
Character
Peter Sellers
Dodger Lane
David Lodge
Jelly Knight
Bernard Cribbins
Lennie Price
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Soapy Stevens (as Wilfrid Hyde White)
Maurice Denham
The Governor
Lionel Jeffries
Chief P.O. Crout
Irene Handl
Mrs. Price
Liz Fraser
Ethel
Noel Hood
Miss Prescott
Myrette Morven
Miss Meakin
George Woodbridge
Chief P.O. Jenkins
Edwin Brown
Warder Charlie
Cyril Chamberlain
Gate Warder (Day)
Wallas Eaton
Gate Warder (Night)
Andrew Downie
Garden Warder
William Abney
Visiting Room Warder
Thorley Walters
Col. Parkright
John Wood
Captain
Robert James
Police Superintendent
Walter Hudd
Rev. Patterson
Mario Fabrizi
Jones
Warren Mitchell
Tailor
John Glyn-Jones
Lawyer
Arthur Mullard
Fred
Vivienne Martin
Fred's wife
Joe Gibbons
Dustman
Ian Wilson
Milkman
Edward Dentith
Detective
John Harvey
Governor Rockhampton Prison
Johnny Vyvyan
Shorthouse (as John Vyvyen)
Harry Littlewood
Postman
Homi Bode
Court Chamberlain
Abe Barker
Sam - Oldest Inhabitant (uncredited)
Robert Day
Minor Role (uncredited)
Jack Dearlove
Train Station Guard (uncredited)
Olga Dickie
Woman in Pub (uncredited)
Tony Doonan
Prisoner in Garden (uncredited)
Eynon Evans
Solicitor (uncredited)
Larry Taylor
Rockingham Quarry Prison Warder (uncredited)
Hedger Wallace
Detective (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
Liz Fraser (Ethel) was still learning to drive at the time the film was made. In the scene where Ethel follows the army convoy in an Aston Martin, she kept stalling as she set off on cue, so ropes were attached to the front of the car, out of shot, and it was towed.
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Robert James is dubbed
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Goofs
The prisoners are able to escape from their cell by removing the pins from the hinges. For obvious reasons real cell doors do not have hinges on the inside.
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(at around 61 minutes) The driver reversing the Black Maria is not white-haired Soapy Stevens but a black-haired double.
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Quotes
Dodger Lane: Cor, the bottom's dropped right out of Colonial Cocoa. When you knock off any money, lads, never put it on the Stock Exchange - I'll tell you that for nothing.
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Fred: How old is he now, my love?
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Ethel: [to Dodger] Oh Dodger, dear, it's lovely to see you again. I do hope everything goes all right. We'll have a lovely honeymoon.
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Photos from cast
Beryl Reid
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