---
title: 'The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Cliff Owen'
released: '1963-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 94
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-wrong-arm-of-the-law-1963'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056704/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)

1963 · 94 min · Comedy · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

The Wrong Arm of the Law is a 1963 British comedy film directed by Cliff Owen and starring Peter Sellers, Bernard Cribbins, Lionel Jeffries, John Le Mesurier, Bill Kerr and Nanette Newman. The final screenplay was written by John Antrobus, Ray Galton, and Alan Simpson – from an original draft script by John Warren and Len Heath, based on a story by Ivor Jay and William Whistance Smith – and made by Romulus Films. It reunited Sellers, Jeffries, and Cribbins who appeared together in the 1960 film comedy Two-Way Stretch – also written by John Warren and Len Heath – where similarly Sellers and Cribbins played crooks (incarcerated) against Jeffries as an officer of the law, in that case as their chief prison officer.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Cliff Owen](https://cinepixo.com/people/cliff-owen)
- **Screenplay:** [John Antrobus](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-antrobus), [Ray Galton](https://cinepixo.com/people/ray-galton), [Alan Simpson](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-simpson)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Richard Rodney Bennett](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-rodney-bennett)
- **Director of Photography:** [Ernest Steward](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernest-steward)

## Cast

- [Peter Sellers](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-sellers)
- [Lionel Jeffries](https://cinepixo.com/people/lionel-jeffries)
- [Nanette Newman](https://cinepixo.com/people/nanette-newman)
- [John Harvey](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-harvey)
- [Tutte Lemkow](https://cinepixo.com/people/tutte-lemkow)
- [Irene Browne](https://cinepixo.com/people/irene-browne)
- [Dennis Price](https://cinepixo.com/people/dennis-price)
- [John Le Mesurier](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-le-mesurier)
- [Marianne Stone](https://cinepixo.com/people/marianne-stone)
- [Ed Devereaux](https://cinepixo.com/people/ed-devereaux)
- [Bill Kerr](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-kerr)
- [Dick Emery](https://cinepixo.com/people/dick-emery)
- [Graham Stark](https://cinepixo.com/people/graham-stark)
- [Bernard Cribbins](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernard-cribbins)
- [Michael Caine](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-caine)

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