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Director:
Gerald Thomas
Producer: Peter Rogers Screenplay: Talbot Rothwell Music: Eric Rogers Made at Pinewood Studios and on location at Camber Sands, Sussex Shooting started spring 1967 Debut: Anita Harris, Julian Holloway |
Bertram Oliphant 'Bo'
West (Jim Dale), an English gentleman wrongly accused of poor etiquette
at cricket (oh surely not!), tries to join the Foreign Legion, with his
faithful companion Simpson (Peter Butterworth) to atone for his 'crimes'
but is suspected of being a spy by the monocled Legion Kommandant Burger
(Kenneth Williams). Life at Fort Zuassantneuf is not all peeled grapes
and belly dancing, although a remarkably large portion of it does seem
inclined in that direction, notably by exotic dancer Corktip, played by
Anita Harris. Bertram's
Love interest, English rose Lady Jane Ponsonby (Angela Douglas), discovers
he is innocent and follows him but is captured by Sheikh Abdul Abulbul
(Bernard Bresslaw), who plans to destroy the legion and marry her after
his victory. After winning back his honour by his 'bravery' during an attack on the fort by the mad Arabs, and rescuing the love of his life, the triumphant Bertram returns to England, and more cricket. Like the previous film, this was also not immediately given a 'Carry On' title for some time, just being called 'Follow That Camel' hence the strange-sounding name which somehow doesn't sound quite right. Some of the elaborate sets were reused in the production of 'Carry On Up The Khyber'. This was Phil Silvers' first British film and his only 'Carry On'. |
Director: Gerald
Thomas |
The
Carry Ons are back in hospital where patients, particularly the bogus
faith healer Francis Bigger (Frankie Howerd), revolt against the tyranny
of matron Hattie Jacques and registrar Doctor Kenneth Tinkle (Kenneth
Williams) when their favourite doctor, Dr Kilmore (Jim Dale), is sacked
for dubious reasons after he is caught in an innocent but compromising
position with new arrival, novice nurse Sandra May (Barbara Windsor).
Despite a revolt by the inmates Kilmore is not reinstated until Matron
is threatened with the dastardly icy bed-bath and Tinkle (who actually
enjoys bed baths) faces the option of somewhat drastic surgery. There are some interesting side-plots with (Bernard Bresslaw) Ken Biddle's attempts to disguise himself as a nurse in order to visit his wife in the women's ward and Frankie Howerd's portrayal of a faith healer who has hurt his back and is confused into thinking he is dying. What with watches being left inside patients during operations, the practices of the appropriately-named Dr. Kilmore and the famous daffodil in the . . . somewhat inconvenient place gag, this could be reissued as a National Health training film. It brings a whole new meaning to the expression 'rude health'. This was the first officially-titled 'Carry On' film by the Rank/Rogers team and Penny Keith makes an early career appearance, given the magnificent billing of 'Plain Nurse'. |
Frankie Howerd, Sidney James,
Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Barbara Windsor,
Hattie Jacques, Anita Harris, Bernard Bresslaw, Peter Butterworth, June
Jago, Derek Francis,
Dandy Nichols, Peter Jones, Deryck Guyler, Gwendolyn Watts, Dilys Laye,
Peter Gilmore, Harry Locke, Marianne Stone, Jean St. Clair, Valerie Van
Ost, Julian Orchard, Brian Wilde, Lucy Griffiths, Pat Coombs,
Gertan Klauber, Julian Holloway, Jenny White, Helen Ford, Gordon Rollings,
Simon Cain, Penelope Keith, Cheryl Molineaux, Alexandra Dane, Bart Allison,
Jane Murdoch, Stephen Garlick
Director: Gerald Thomas Producer: Peter Rogers Screenplay: Talbot Rothwell Music: Eric Rogers Made at Pinewood Studios and on location in Snowdonia, Wales Shooting started Spring 1968 |
The
Imperial Raj of the late nineteenth century sees British diplomat
Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond (Sid James) passionately defending his cushy
job in one of the last decadent outposts of the British Empire. Making
life difficult for him are his domineering wife and local tribesmen,
the Burpas. They
are the screaming mad followers of the even madder Khasi of Kalabar
(Kenneth Williams), who actually fancies a bit of ruff - Lady Ruff-Diamond
(Joan Sims). The Khasi comes upon a photograph 'proving' that the
'Devils in Skirts', the men of the 3rd Foot and Mouth regiment, actually
wear clothing under their kilts and is intent on showing this to an
Afghan invasion force led by Bungdit Din (Bernard Bresslaw) who have
previously been fearful of attacking the British stronghold. After
an unsuccessful attempt to get the incriminating evidence, British
Captain Keene (Roy Castle) is captured, along with Lady Ruff-Diamond,
and are due to be executed but are helped to escape by Princess Jelhi
(Angela Douglas), the Khasi's daughter, who has fallen for Keene.
Sir Sidney fights to retain control of his bit of the action by using
every weapon at his disposal, including those up the kilts of the
disgraced regiment, who are, of course, the stereotypically chronic
'carry on' under-achievers led by Terry Scott as Sergeant Major MacNutt.
Whilst filming the banquet scene at the end of the movie, all the actors were trying their best not to actually eat any of the food as all the building debris was falling into it. The minutes passed, and they had to put something in their mouths as they had shoved the food around their plates for long enough. The stony silence was eventually broken by Sid James shouting "...Bastards!" when he realised that Gerald Thomas had stopped rolling the cameras ages ago, and had just left them all to get on with it. Roy Castle and Cardew Robinson appeared in their only 'Carry On' film. |
CAST LIST
Sidney James,
Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Roy Castle, Bernard Bresslaw,
Peter Butterworth, Terry Scott, Angela Douglas, Cardew Robinson, Julian
Holloway, Peter Gilmore, Leon Thau,
Wanda Ventham, Alexandra Dane, Michael Mellinger, Dominique Don, Derek Sydney,
Steven Scott, David Spenser, Liz Gold, Vicki Woolf, Anne Scott, Katherina
Holden, Lisa Noble, Tamsin MacDonald, Eve Eden,
Barbara Evans, Johnny Briggs, Simon Cain, Larry Taylor, Patrick Westwood,
John Hallam, Angie Grant, Josephine Blain, Vicki Murden, Carmen Dene, Valerie
Leon, June Cooper, Karen Young, Sue Vaughan
Made at Pinewood Studios |
Sid Boggle (Sid James) and his friend Bernie Lugg
(Bernard Bresslaw) have planned to take their (to them) straight-laced
girlfriends Joan Fussey (Joan Sims) and Anthea Meeks (Dilys Laye) on
a camping holiday, to what they had thought was a nudist camp, in a
desperate attempt to spice up their love lives, but find that it is
just a normal (???!) campsite. The
canvas-dwelling denizens, under the money-grabbing auspices of farm
owner Joshua Fiddler (Peter Butterworth), are the not totally unexpected
mix of nagging wives and social outcasts and things look pretty bleak
for the pair until Miss Haggard (Hattie Jacques) and Dr. Soaper (Kenneth
Williams) arrive with a coachload of young ladies on a field trip from
Chayste Place finishing school. Some of the best laughs come from Terry Scott and Betty Marsden as Peter and Harriet Potter who 'adopt' hitch-hiker Charlie Muggins (Charles Hawtrey), offering him a place in their tent and then finding that he is not as easy to get rid of as they thought. 'Camping' contains the most famous scene in the series, involving Barbara Windsor and a less than structurally sound support garment, an effect achieved with a fishing rod and line attached to it. Somewhat sadly, this brought the 'age of innocence' of Carry On to an end as this was the first in the series to actually show 'naughty bits', setting a precedent for every 'Carry On' made since. |
Sidney James, Kenneth Williams,
Joan Sims, Charles Hawtrey, Terry Scott, Barbara Windsor, Hattie Jacques,
Bernard Bresslaw, Julian Holloway, Dilys Laye, Peter Butterworth,
Betty Marsden, Trisha Noble, Amelia Bayntun, Brian Oulton, Patricia Franklin,
Derek Francis, Michael Nightingale, Elizabeth Knight, George Moon, Sandra
Caron, Valerie Shute,
Georgina Moon, Vivien Lloyd, Jennifer Pyle, Lesley Duff, Jackie Poole,
Anna Karen, Sally Kemp, Valerie Leon, Peter Cockburn, Michael Low, Mike
Lucas, Gilly Grant
Director:
Gerald Thomas
Producer: Peter Rogers Screenplay: Talbot Rothwell Music: Eric Rogers Made at Pinewood Studios Shooting
started Spring 1969 |
The
unfortunately-named Long Hampton hospital sees more medical mirth and
malpractice with an even wider selection of unlikely-looking nurses
and idiotic inmates to attract your attention, including Yutte Stensgaard
of Hammer Horror fame. Doctor James Nookey (Jim Dale) has been in enforced
exile at a medical mission on a remote tropical island after being removed
from the hospital for a misdemeanour. While he is there, the orderly
Gladstone Screwer (Sid James) shows him a local 'wonder drug' and Nookey
returns to England to open a slimming clinic. Hospital surgeon Frederick Carver (Kenneth Williams), with Dr Ernest Stoppidge (Charles Hawtrey) and his surreal staff go in headlong pursuit of a fast buck, and put into action a plan to learn the secret by booking Stoppage into the clinic to undergo treatment disguised as a woman, along with some other ladies who, generally speaking, hardly seem in need of the stuff anyway. The situation is further confused by Screwer, who turns up on the doorstep and starts demanding his share of the profits. Long Hampton hospital was actually Maidenhead Town Hall. Although Sid James received top billing, his part is relatively small and he does not appear until the 39th minute of the film.Eric Rogers made his second Carry On cameo appearance as a band leader with the line: “The next dance is a general excuse me”. |
Sidney
James, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Barbara Windsor,
Hattie Jacques, Patsy Rowlands, Peter Butterworth, Pat Coombs, Wilfrid Brambell,
Elizabeth Knight, Alexandra Dane,
Peter Gilmore, Pat Coombs, Patricia Hayes, William Mervyn, Lucy Griffiths,
Harry Locke, Valerie Leon, Gwendolyn Watts, Frank Singuineau, Valerie Van
Ost, Billy Cornelius, Simon Cain, Elspeth March, Valerie Shute,
Ann Lancaster, Shakira Baksh, Georgina Simpson, Faith Kent, Frank Forsyth,
Donald Bissett, Ambrosine Phillpotts, Bob Todd, Heather Emmanuel, Yutte
Stensgaard, George Roderick, Jenny Counsell, Rupert Evans
Director:
Gerald Thomas |
The
loveable louts embark on an ornithological African jungle expedition,
led by the intrepid Professor Inigo Tinkle (Frankie Howerd), ostensibly
in search of the rare Oozelum bird (you know the one!) but Lady Evelyn
Bagley (Joan Sims), who is financing the trip, is also looking for her
long lost husband and baby son. The expedition is protected by Bill
Boosey (Sid James) and his somewhat dim African guide Upsidaisi (Bernard
Bresslaw). A wild jungle man 'Ug' (Terry Scott) wanders into camp one
night and is identified as Lady Bagley's lost son by the nappy pin he
is wearing. Safari, so good, things appear to be chugging along just
fine in their usual chaotic way until it all goes, literally, to pot
when they stumble across the Nosha - a distinctly wacky, but nonetheless
peckish, cannibal tribe. Useful advice is found in the words of their
hunter/guide Bill Boosey "...just hope they don't like stuffing…". They
are rescued by a tribe of unknown Amazons desperate to find male mates
and thus avoid the extinction of their race, the king of whom turns
out to be Lady Bagley's long lost husband. The equatorial climate also
seems to have an interesting effect on their prim and proper secretary,
June (Jacki Piper), much to Jungle Boy Ug's delight. Originally to be titled 'Carry On Jungle Boy' the name was changed during post production. Jim Dale turned down the 'Jungle Boy' part which subsequently went to Terry Scott. Making an appearance is Nina Baden-Semper ( later to find fame in comedy series 'Love Thy Neighbour' ) as a member of the cannibal tribe. |
Writer: Talbot Rothwell, Director: Ronnie Baxter Producer: Peter Eton Other
Shows (episodes in brackets)
Talbot
Rothwell - Writer (3,4) Sid Colin - Writer (2) |
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The
first Christmas special was filmed shortly after the completion of Carry
on Up the Jungle and featured the same main cast that appeared in the
film. It was scripted by long-term Carry On author Talbot Rothwell who
produced an irreverent take on the Charles Dickens classic, featuring
Sid James as Ebenezer Scrooge.
The 'Ghost of Christmas Past' reveals the fact that Scrooge failed to invest in the schemes of Dr. Frank N. Stein, who (assisted by his servant, Count Dracula) sought to create a mate for Barbara Windsor's monster. The 'Ghost of Christmas Present' sequence depicted a fundless Robert Browning's difficulties in attempting to elope with Elizabeth Barrett thanks to Scrooge's unwillingness to lend them the cash. The 'Ghost of Christmas Future' sequence featured a 'Carry On' version of the Cinderella story. |
| The 'Carry-On Team' made four festive one-hour television 'Christmas Specials' for Thames Television. The first of them was loosely based on Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' and was transmitted at 9:15pm on 24th December 1969 under the title of 'Carry On Christmas' (the actual production being titled 'The Ghosts Of Christmas'). The 1970 offering was titled 'Carry On Again Christmas: Carry On Long John' and was a pantomime-style spoof of 'Treasure Island' with Barbara Windsor playing the 'principal boy' part of cabin boy Jim Hawkins. 1971 was given a miss but they returned again in 1972 with a sketch-like collection of Christmas stories titled 'Carry On Christmas: Carry On Stuffing' and the last production in 1973 was a Carry On-style history re-write which returned to the original show title of 'Carry On Christmas'. |
Produced by Ernest Maxin Written by: Norman Hudis 39 episodes Series One (13 x 55 mins) 11th September - 4th December 1960 Sundays at 3.25pm Series Two (26 x 45 mins) 16th September 1961 - 21st April 1962 Fortnightly then weekly on Saturdays at 7.40pm |
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This
was a comedy series about a 'mutually-owned' house and the not totally
unexpectedly bizarre antics and interactions of its various residents,
two couples and five individuals, as they were the artists who formed
the backbone of the 'Carry On' film team. |
| Our House was a black and
white sitcom, created and written by Norman Hudis and produced for ABC
by Foster TV Productions. If you liked the gentler humour of the early
Carry On movies then this series was for you. The show was created after 'Carry On Regardless', bringing back together Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques and Joan Sims. The second series featured cast changes that added Hylda Baker and Bernard Bresslaw (who was to become a 'Carry On' film regular from 1965 onwards) and others but losing many stars from the first series. It ran for three 'seasons', a total of 39 episodes, but only the first season and seven episodes of the second season were shown nationally. The last episode shown by London ITV was on 9th December 1961. The other weekly episodes were only shown by a few ITV regions and have not been transmitted since. The only known surviving episodes are "Simply Simon", "A Thin Time" and "Love To Georgina", the other tapes probably having been wiped for re-use in the early Sixties. |
Directed by Gerald Thomas Written by Alan Hackney and Vivian A. Cox Produced by Peter Rogers Original music by Bruce Montgomery Cinematography by Ted Scaife Film Editing by John Shirley Art Direction by Carmen Dillon |
The
hapless and accident-prone Ordinary Seaman Blissworth (played by Kenneth
Connor) gets involved in a top
secret test on an new acoustic torpedo that, when fired, misses the intended
target and blows up the ship that launched it!
An Admiralty
scientist is sent to modify the design, but in order to do this they need
the blueprints, one of which has been lost and the other destroyed.
Blissworth is forced into impersonating a female scientist in
order to bluff the Admiralty with some phoney plans.
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Directed by Gerald Thomas Script by Norman Hudis and Robin Estridge (from a novel by Verily Anderson) Produced by Peter Rogers Original music by Bruce Montgomery Cinematography by Alan Hume Film Editing by John Shirley Art Direction by Carmen Dillon |
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A married
couple (Leslie Phillips and Geraldine McEwan) inherit a run-down old
house and decide to turn it into a holiday home for rich kids, not anticipating
the troubles which descend on them in the form of inebriated kitchen
staff, troublesome teenagers and an interfering local alderman who has
her own plans for the building once she can get them evicted.
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Directed
by Gerald Thomas |
A group of students studying at an elite music college decide to rent a flat together to cut their living costs and have somewhere to practice their music. They get into quite a few 'Carry On' style scrapes but the big problem comes when Mervyn (Leslie Phillips) 'accidentally' sells a catchy tune to an agency and stands to lose his scholarship unless he and his mates can manage to raise the money to buy it back. Also called 'Roommates', this was pretty much a 'Carry On' / 'Doctor In The House' hybrid
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Directed
by Gerald Thomas Original Music
by Bruce Montgomery |
Not
exactly a hilarious comedy, but not exactly entirely serious either. There are four stereotypical new arrivals at Lenton Tuberculosis Sanitorium. Inevitably, the irrepressible Kenneth Williams undermines any real attempt at seriousness or, indeed, apparently any real hospital treatment as not a single doctor is seen in the entire film. The action highlights of the film involve the smuggling in of food and their vigorous but inept attempts to romance the nurses. Curiously, three of them actually succeed......
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Directed by Gerald Thomas Written by Norman Hudis (from a novel by Joanna Jones) Produced by Peter Rogers Original Music by Eric Rogers Cinematography by Alan Hume Film Editing by Archie Ludski Art Direction by Lionel Couch |
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A new rural district nurse (Juliet Mills), along with her odd mother (Esma Cannon), arrives to replace her predecessor in the quaint village of Blandley but, due to her comparatively tender years and eligibility, is an object of suspicion for the gossip-mongers among the somewhat reserved country folk. She manages to overcome this and eventually becomes romantically involved with a local farmer - until he tries to evict a newly-arrived couple, expecting a baby, who have parked their caravan on his land.
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Directed by Jeremy Summers Written by T.J. Morrison and Mike Watts Produced by Gordon Scott Original Music by Don Banks Cinematography by Harry Waxman Film Editing by Ann Chegwidden Art Direction by Robert Jones |
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After pulling
off a train robbery, 'Little Walter' and his gang are forced to hide out,
disguised as monks, in an abandoned monastery on a remote Cornish island.
After surviving unwelcome visits by tourists and some genuine monks, they
decide that they quite like the life. Things are going quite well until
one of them starts betting on the dogs, raising suspicions with the local
onstabulary. When Walter eventually decides it is time to leave, they
don't want to go, but end up doing the decent thing, giving the island
deeds to some real monks and delivering themselves into the hands of the
law.
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Directed
by Gerald Thomas |
A group of criminals led by George 'The Great' Brain
(Sid James) carry out a bank robbery and get away with £15,000. However,
not everything goes quite according to plan and the police intercept them
as they make their getaway, forcing George to stash the money in a hollow
tree. Failing to escape from their subsequent prison sentence, they are
released 15 years later and immediately set off to search for the tree –
however, a new town has since been built on the open fields. The good news
is that the tree is still there - the bad news? It is now standing in the
yard of the local police station! The gang rent rooms in digs across the
street to figure out exactly how they are going to extract their loot.......
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| Carry On Sergeant (1958) | Carry On Nurse (1959) | Carry On Teacher (1959) | Carry On Constable (1960) | Carry On Regardless (1961) |
| Carry On Cruising (1962) | Carry On Cabby (1963) | Carry On Jack (1963) | Carry On Spying (1964) | Carry On Cleo (1964) |
| Carry On Cowboy (1965) | Carry On Screaming! (1966) | Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (1966) | Carry On Follow That Camel (1967) | Carry On Doctor (1967) |
| Carry On Up The Khyber (1968) | Carry On Camping (1969) | Carry On Again Doctor (1969) | Carry On Up The Jungle (1969/70) | Carry On Loving (1970) |
| Carry On Henry (1971) | Carry On At Your Convenience (1971) | Carry On Matron (1972) | Carry On Abroad (1972) | Carry On Girls (1973) |
| Carry On Dick (1974) | Carry On Behind (1975) | Carry On England (1976) | That's Carry On (1978) (Compilation) | Carry On Emmannuelle (1978) |
| Carry On Columbus (1992) | TV: Carry On Christmas (1969) | TV: Carry On Again Christmas (1970) | TV: Carry On Christmas (Carry On Stuffing) (1972) | TV: Carry On Christmas (1973) |
| TV: Carry On Laughing 3 (1975) | Stage: Carry On London (1973-75) | Stage: Carry On Laughing (1976) | Stage: Wot a Carry On in Blackpool (1992) |
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