Porridge

Year: 1979

Runtime: 93 mins

Language: English

Director: Dick Clement

CrimeComedy

Inside Slade Prison, veteran inmate Norman Stanley Fletcher struggles to keep his routine while the newly appointed officer Beale proves harsher than his predecessor MacKay. Meanwhile, the formidable inmate Grouty hatches an escape plot, but Fletcher refuses to be drawn into the scheme, determined to stay out of trouble.

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