Two-Way Stretch

Two-Way Stretch, sometimes titled Nothing Barred, is a 1960 British comedy film, about a group of prisoners who plan to break out of jail, commit a robbery, and then break back into jail again, thus giving them the perfect alibi – that they were behind bars when the robbery occurred. However, their plans are disrupted by the arrival of a strict new Chief Prison Officer. The film was directed by Robert Day from a screenplay by Vivian Cox, John Warren and Len Heath, with additional dialogue by Alan Hackney. The film boasts a rich cast of characters played by, among others, Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Lionel Jeffries and Bernard Cribbins.

Links To Peel
In Margrave Of The Marshes, Peel mentioned on 30 August 1960, while living in Texas at the time, he had just applied for an extension to his six-month visa, which was granted, and consequently mentioned seeing a Peter Sellers film called Two-Way Stretch on his 21st birthday:


 * "I spent my twenty-first birthday watching Peter Sellers in 'Two-Way Stretch' on my own in a cinema attached to the Southern Methodist University (SMU)." (Margrave Of The Marshes, Bantam Press, 2005, p. 184.)