Feb 12th
Two Way Stretch**
GB 1960. British Lion. 87m. bw

Prison lags just about to be released hitch a scheme to rob a Sultan's jewels.
Proficient comedy heist with a reliable British cast, and a range of prison gags that made for a useful blueprint for the classic 70's TV series Porridge.

Written by: John Warren, Len Heath.
Producer: M. Smedley Aston.
Director: Robert Day.
Starring: Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries, Bernard Cribbins, David Lodge, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Liz Fraser, Irene Handl, Maurice Denham, George Woodbridge, Beryl Reid.
Photography: Geoffrey Faithfull.
Music: Ken Jones.

Preceded by:
From Soup to Nuts**
(US 1928. 20m. bw. silent; Two ramshackle waiters serve at a high society dinner.; w: H.M.Walker; d: Edgar Kennedy; s: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Anita Garvin, Tiny Sandford, Edna Marion; ph: Len Powers.)


FROM SOUP TO NUTS. A succession of amusing gags rather than a plot (as so many of the Laurel & Hardy shorts were) based around the kitchen, with Ollie falling over several banana skins, but done with their usual immaculate comedy timing.