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A Very Open Prison

8.5199555mMovieComedyTV Movie

The Home Secretary has his eye on the Prime Minister's job. But an experiment in the way the prisons are run leads to embarrassment - and escaped murderers! The fore runner of Crossing The Floor

DirectorGuy Jenkin
WriterGuy Jenkin
ProducerGeoffrey Perkins

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Cast · Directed by Guy Jenkin

TWTom Wilkinson
Tom Wilkinson
David Hanratty
RPRonald Pickup
Ronald Pickup
Brian Silcott
STStephen Tompkinson
Stephen Tompkinson
Jeremy Craig
EMEmily Mortimer
Emily Mortimer
Amanda Ellis
PWPeter Wingfield
Peter Wingfield
Dominic Casement
MHMichael Hordern
Michael Hordern
Lord Langland
GWGeoffrey Whitehead
Geoffrey Whitehead
Chief Constable Christie
JFJohn Fortune
John Fortune
Prime Minister
CICelia Imrie
Celia Imrie
Victoria Bridgewater
JFJulian Fellowes
Julian Fellowes
Sir Mortimer Fawkes
MSMichael Fenton Stevens
Michael Fenton Stevens
John Bentley
WHWilliam Hoyland
William Hoyland
Arthur Hare

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