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Released
1979 · FILM

Porridge

Fletcher's inside story - even funnier as a film

Directed by
Runtime
93 min
ComedyCrime

Synopsis

Life remains difficult for habitual guest of Her Majesty, Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay seem lenient, and to make matters worse, an escape plan is being devised from the cell of prison godfather Grouty, a scheme Fletcher has no interest in becoming involved with.

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Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Alan JonesShot by Robert Huke

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