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Porridge is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Dick Clement released in USA on 7 december 1979 with Ronnie Barker
Porridge (1979)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 7 december 1979
Length 1h33
Directed by Dick Clement
OriginUnited-kingdom
Themes Prison films
Rating71%
Porridge is a film released in 1979 and based on the television series Porridge. It was released under the title Doing Time in the United States.
All the warders and inmates from the original series appear in the film, with the notable exceptions of Lukewarm, Heslop and Harris. There is also a different governor, played by Geoffrey Bayldon.
The film includes one of the last appearances by Richard Beckinsale, the actor who played Godber. He died in March 1979, a few weeks after its completion.
Synopsis
In the film, which is set a year before the final episode of the TV series, Fletcher and Godber are forced by another inmate to escape from prison, and then have to try to break back in before they are found by the police.Actors
Ronnie Barker
(Norman Stanley Fletcher)
Richard Beckinsale
(Lennie Godber)
Fulton Mackay
(Mackay)
Brian Wilde
(Barrowclough)
Peter Vaughan
(Grouty)
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