  or Down the Spout or Ladies Please be Seated or Up The Workers or Labour Relations are the People who Come to See You When You're Having a Baby |
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 1971
"Not without a much bigger bowl" |
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 "Flushed with success the Carry on team carries on around the bend" |
90
min Colour Cert A
| The Stars | |
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Sidney James Kenneth Williams Charles Hawtrey Hattie Jacques Joan Sims Bernard Bresslaw Kenneth Cope Patsy Rowlands Jacki Piper Richard O'Callaghan Bill Maynard Davy Kaye Renee Houston Marianne Stone Margaret Nolan Geoffrey Hughes Hugh Futcher Bill Pertwee |
Sid
Plummer W C Boggs Charlie Coote Beattie Plummer Chloe Moore Bernie Hulke Vic Spanner Miss Withering Myrtle Plummer Lewis Boggs Fred Moore Benny Agatha Spanner Maude Popsy Willy Ernie Roadhouse Manager |
| The Crew | |
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Producer Director Screenplay Music Cinematographer Editor |
Peter
Rogers Gerald Thomas Talbot Rothwell Eric Rogers Ernest Steward BSc Alfred Roome |
Synopsis
Strike-plagued toilet manufacturers, W C Boggs
(Kenneth Williams) are quite literally on the brink of going down the pan.
When Boggs tells Sid Plummer (Sid James), the
works’ foreman that they need a thousand pounds to stay in business, Sid puts to work
his racing expect budgie but this doesn’t help and eventually the factory moves
nearer closing down. Then one morning, the
workers return and the managers think the strike is over, only to realise that the
strikers have only come in because it is the day of the Works’ outing to Brighton.
This is where the real fun starts when the
managers decide to go along.
Compared to previous films this was a big flop and this has been put down to the sensitive nature of the film; a large percentage of the Carry On audience consisted of the workers they were sending up. This aside, this is the best of the bunch. Vic Spanner (Kenneth Cope) sharply plays the union rep deadpanly. The love affair between Lewis Boggs (Richard O’Callaghan) and Myrtle Plummer (Jacki Piper) is perhaps the most touching relationship in the whole series. Hattie Jacques is wonderful as the twittering bird-obsessed wife of Sid, whiling away her days in a house much in need of cleaning. A classic, the best, number one.
