Two Way Stretch (1960)

TWO WAY STRETCH  (1960)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Robert Day
    Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Lionel Jeffries,
    Liz Fraser, Maurice Denham, Bernard Cribbens
Three cons closing in on their release dates sign on for a diamond heist for which they'll have the perfect alibi: They'll escape, pull off the job, and sneak back into prison before anybody knows they were gone. A pleasantly barmy British comedy in the combined spirit of Ealing, the "Carry On" films and Monty Python. Authority figures are more or less doomed in a movie like this. The more seriously they take themselves, the worse it's going to be for them. Lionel Jeffries, as a tyrannical prison guard, doesn't stand a chance.