A Very Open Prison 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 Details Casts Posters Title A Very Open Prison Release Date 1995-12-09 Runtime 00 Hours 55 Minutes Genres Comedy TV Movie Production Companies Unknown Production Countries Tom Wilkinson... David Hanratty... Ronald Pickup... Brian Silcott... Stephen Tompkinson... Jeremy Craig... Emily Mortimer... Amanda Ellis... Peter Wingfield... Dominic Casement... Michael Hordern... Lord Langland... Geoffrey Whitehead... Chief Constable Christie... John Fortune... Prime Minister... Celia Imrie... Victoria Bridgewater... Julian Fellowes... Sir Mortimer Fawkes... Michael Fenton Stevens... John Bentley... William Hoyland... Arthur Hare... Trevor Cooper... Landlord... Jason Barry... Vince Mawhinney... David Sterne... Ricky Dorrell... Andy Hamilton... Eddie... Susannah Hitching... Inspector Lisa Sutcliffe... Rory Bremner... Voice Over... Original Size (666x1000)