Peter Sellers The Wrong Arm Of The Law Getting Blu-ray Release

Studiocanal’s Vintage Classics Collection is about to get funnier when they release  the comedy crime caper The Wrong Arm Of The Law starring the legendary Peter Sellers. The film has been fully restored and read for release on Blu-ray as well as Digital for the first time in May.

The Wrong Arm Of The Law brings together a Who’s Who of familiar faces from British film and television of the 60s and 70s. That brilliant cast  Lionel Jeffries, Bernard Cribbins, Nanette Newman, John Le Mesurier, Davy Kaye, Irene Brown and Arthur Mullard. Directed by Cliff Owen and scripted by the incomparable British comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson (Hancock’s Half Hour, Steptoe and Son) with John Antrobus.

In London, a group of Australian gangsters disguised as “Bobbies”, led by Jack Coombes (Bill Kerr), are diverting the ill-gotten gains of the local criminal gangs. Gang leader “Pearly” Gates (Sellers), who operates from the cover of a French couturier, finds his takings severely cut. Initially he blames rival crook “Nervous” O’Toole (Bernard Cribbins) but when it emerges that they are both being scammed by the same gang, they form an unlikely alliance with Scotland Yard Police Inspector – Lionel Jeffries’ “Nosey” Parker – to eliminate the so-called “I.P.O. mob” (I.P.O. – Impersonating a Police Officer) and return things to “normal”.

Nanette Newman provides the love interest, John Le Mesurier plays a senior policeman, and a young Michael Caine has a small and uncredited role as a young PC.

Special features
–NEW Feature – The Long Arm of the Screenwriter – John Antrobus Remembers The Wrong Arm of The Law
-Behind the Scenes stills gallery
-Original trailer

The Wrong Arm Of The Law will be released by Studiocanal  under their Vintage Classics Collection on Blu-ray and Digital from 2nd May. You can pre-order your copy now Here.