Two Way Stretch
- 1960 film
Prisoner Dodger Lane plans a heist that will involve slipping out of incarceration to steal some diamonds. Stars Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Maurice Denham, Irene Handl, David Lodge and more.
- Repeated tomorrow at 1:05pm on Film4
Two-Way Stretch
Starring the finest comic actor of his generation Peter Sellers (The Pink Panther), Two-Way Stretch is one of the funniest comedy crime capers of 1960s British cinema. Also starring a supporting cast of comedy legends including Lionel Jeffries (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) and Bernard Cribbins (Crooks In Cloisters).
Constantly taking advantage of the prison governor's liberal methods towards authority, convict and criminal mastermind Dodger Lane (Sellers) decides to commit the ultimate crime with the ultimate alibi. Along with a misfit crew of fellow inmates he plans to escape from prison, steal a priceless cache of diamonds and then return to his cell before anyone notices. Who said genius was easy?
First released: Monday 4th August 2025
Extra features
- Peter Sellers: Criminally Good - A look at the production of Two-Way Stretch featuring interviews with Peter Lydon, director of BBC Arena's The Peter Sellers Story and the BFI's Vic Pratt, co-author of The Bodies Beneath: The Flipside Of British Film And Television
- Two Way Stretch: Sellers On The Inside - Featuring interview footage with Roy Boulting, Beryl Reid, Bryan Forbes, Sidney Gilliat and Mai Zetterling originally shot for Sellers' Best (1992), a 60-minute documentary on the early film career of Peter Sellers, broadcast on Channel 4
- Audio commentary by authors and comedy historians Gemma Ross and Robert Ross
- Behind the scenes stills gallery
- Trailer
Blu-ray New- Distributor: STUDIOCANAL
- Region: B
- Discs: 1
- Minutes: 87
- Subtitles: English
- Catalogue: OPTBD4623
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