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{{Short description|1960 British film by Ken Hughes}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}
{{Infobox film
| name = In the Nick
| image = In_the_Nick_(1960_film).jpg
| caption = Original British quad poster
| director = [[Ken Hughes]]
| producer = [[Harold Huth]]
| screenplay = Ken Hughes
| based_on = a story by [[Frank Norman]]
| starring = [[Anthony Newley]]<br>[[Anne Aubrey]]<br>[[Bernie Winters]]<br>[[James Booth]]
| music = [[Ron Goodwin]]<br>[[Lionel Bart]] (songs)
| cinematography = [[Ted Moore]]
| editing = [[Geoffrey Foot (film editor)|Geoffrey Foot]]
| studio = [[Warwick Films]]
| distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]]
| released = {{Film date|1960|06|17|London|df=yes}}
| runtime = 109 minutes<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/nick-1960|title=IN THE NICK - British Board of Film Classification}}</ref>
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| gross =
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'''''In the Nick''''' is a 1960 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Ken Hughes]] and starring [[Anthony Newley]], [[Anne Aubrey]], [[Bernie Winters]], [[James Booth]] and [[Harry Andrews]].<ref name="BFIsearch">{{Cite web |title=In the Nick |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150039775 |access-date=1 February 2024 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}</ref> A gang of incompetent criminals are placed in a special type of new prison.

==Plot==
A progressive experimental prison without bars is run by young psychiatrist Dr. Newcombe and harsh but fair Chief Officer Williams. Four hardened criminals, the Spider Gang, arrive at this [[Prison#Security levels|minimum security prison]], the leader of whom is Spider Kelly. Dr. Newcombe has his work cut out trying to reform the boys and enlists the aid of Spider's girlfriend Doll, who, to Spider's anger, is now working as a stripper in [[Soho]]. Newcombe seems to be straightening Spider out, while Spider is in turn sorting out a rival imprisoned gang, led by Ted Ross), who hold the monopoly in smuggled cigarettes.

==Cast==
* [[Anthony Newley]] as Dr. Newcombe
* [[Anne Aubrey]] as The Doll
* [[Bernie Winters]] as Jinx Shortbottom
* [[James Booth]] as Spider Kelly
* [[Harry Andrews]] as Chief Officer Williams
* [[Al Mulock]] as Dancer
* [[Derren Nesbitt]] as Mick
* [[Niall MacGinnis]] as Prison Governor
* [[Victor Brooks (actor)|Victor Brooks]] as Screw Smith
* [[Ian Hendry]] as Ted Ross
* [[Kynaston Reeves]] as Judge
* Barry Keegan as Screw Jenkins
* Diana Chesney as barmaid
* [[Andria Lawrence]] (uncredited)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0492619/ |title=Andrea Lawrence |publisher=[[IMDb]] |access-date=13 February 2018}}</ref>
* [[Sam Kydd]] as inmate

==Production==
Many of the same team had just made ''[[Jazz Boat]]'' (1960) also directed by Hughes.<ref name="filmink">{{cite magazine|magazine=Filmink|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/ken-hughes-forgotten-auteur/|title=Ken Hughes Forgotten Auteur|date=14 November 2020}}</ref>

Featured song "Must Be" was written by [[Lionel Bart]].<ref name="tvguide">{{cite web |title=In The Nick |url=http://www.tvguide.com/movies/in-the-nick/review/102024/}}</ref>

==Critical reception==
''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' noted "A sequel to ''[[Jazz Boat]]'' [1960], with the same leading characters and production team, ''In the Nick'' is cast very much in the same mould – easy-going mixture of farce and fantasy, loose and ingenuous scripting, excellent (if bizarre) team-playing. James Booth stands out for his genuinely observed portrait of Spider, Bernie Winters appears to be one of those rare comedians who can keep his moronic style of clowning free from offensiveness, and Niall MacGinnis (Governor), Harry Andrews (Chief Officer) and Ian Hendry (rival mobsters) all catch the eye. Anthony Newley is rather at sea as a psychiatrist, but plays with a likable modesty and warmth, and an improved Anne Aubrey discretely burlesques [[Jayne Mansfield]]. There is much in this film that is conventionally weak and structurally uneven, yet it gets closer to contemporary feeling than numerous more ambitious comedies. The dialogue, particularly, strikes an authentic note, and Ken Hughes' debt to [[Frank Norman]], who wrote the original story, seems considerable."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jamesbooth.org/monthly_film_nick_review.htm|title=Monthly Film Bulletin}}</ref>

''[[TV Guide]]'' noted, "Though there are some genuinely funny moments in the film, Newley is miscast as the compassionate psychologist. Though relatively straightforward for its first half, the plot becomes convoluted and the motivations are twisted in the second half."<ref name="tvguide" />

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0053943}}

{{Ken Hughes}}
{{Irving Allen}}

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[[Category:Films directed by Ken Hughes]]
[[Category:1960 comedy films]]
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