Two Way Stretch
Crime & Punishment
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Comedy, Crime, UR
In Huntleigh prison, a group of cellmates (Peter Sellers, Bernard Cribbins and David Lodge) plan the perfect burglary. By escaping the day before their release, then breaking back in again, they will have the perfect alibi when they rob a maharajah's palace of its diamonds - they will seemingly never have left their cell.
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An Inspector Calls
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Peeping Tom
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