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 1992
"Sharks! Man-eating sharks! the sea's full of them. Mind you don't fall in" "My goodness! Do you think they'd eat me whole? " No, I'm told they spit that out!" |
 "Up your anchor for a well crewed voyage" |
87
min Colour
Cert PG
| The Stars | |
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Jim Dale Bernard Cribbins Leslie Phillips June Whitfield Sara Crowe Alexei Sayle Richard Wilson Maureen Lipman Julian Clary Keith Allen Jack Douglas Danny Peacock Peter Richardson Holly Aird Rebecca Lacey Rik Mayall Nigel Planer Jon Pertwee Bert Kwouk Don Henderson Peter Gilmore Harold Berens Tony Slattery Martin Clunes Charles Fleischer Chris Langham Larry Martin John Antrobus Toby Dale |
Christopher
Columbus Mordecai Mendosa King of Spain Queen of Spain Fatima Achmed Don Juan Philippo Countess Esmerelda Don Juan Diego Pepi the Poisoner Marco - Cereal Killer Tonto the Torch Bart Columbus Maria Chiquita Sultan of Turkey Wazir Duke of Costa Brava Wang Bosun Gov of the Canaries Cecil the Torturer Baba the Messenger Martin Pontiac Hubba The Chief Manservant Hooded Inquisitor |
| The Crew | |
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Producer Director Screenplay Music Cinematographer Editor |
Peter
Rogers Gerald Thomas Dave Freeman John du Prez Alan Hume BSc Chris Blunden |
Synopsis
Christopher Columbus persuades the King and Queen of Spain to put up
the money for an expedition to the Far East using a new route that will keep him out of
the evil Sultan of Turkey’s way. The
Sultan, having the only known route to the East, has his pick of all the goods and fines
anybody who dares to question his rule, so a new route to the East would be beneficial.
When the evil Sultan discovers the expedition he
sends Fatima and Achmed to make the mission fail.
But
as this is Columbus he doesn’t end up in the East, he ends up in America.
Is this resurrection, 14 years after the last one, any good? Frankly, no. It isn’t really a Carry On, for the reason that there are too many missing faces. Jim Dale plays his part with his usual gusto and you can see that some of the actors were put into their parts for the Carry On regular similarities such as Julian Clary/Kenneth Williams, Sara Crowe/Barbara Windsor.
An opportunity was missed with this film, but perhaps the feel of the originals can never ever be repeated now because the Carry Ons’ were the actors.
