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Release year: 1960

Storyline

While in prison, Dodger plots the perfect heist: break out, steal diamonds, get back before noticed. With days left on his sentence and a solid alibi, he's confident nothing can go wrong.

Top credits

Directors

Robert Day

Writers

Cast

Peter Sellers — Dodger Lane
David Lodge — Jelly Knight
Bernard Cribbins — Lennie Price
Wilfrid Hyde-White — Soapy Stevens

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Did you know

• Liz Fraser (Ethel) was still learning to drive at the time the film was made. In the scene where she 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.

• Peter Sellers proved very difficult for director Robert Day to work with and, at one point, even walked off the film. He was eventually persuaded to return, but Day later calculated that he had put about ten days on the shooting schedule through his tantrums.

• Maurice Denham plays the Governor who has his watch stolen. In the TV series Porridge (1974), he plays a jailed judge who has his watch stolen.