  or Mind My Chopper |
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 1971
"Thank you" "I can heartily recommend the porter here" "Really? Then do send him up to my room later" |
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 "A great guy with his chopper" |
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or Mind My Chopper |
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1971
"Thank you" "I can heartily recommend the porter here" "Really? Then do send him up to my room later" |
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"A great guy with his chopper" |
89
min Colour Cert A
| The Stars | |
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Sidney James Kenneth Williams Charles Hawtrey Joan Sims Terry Scott Barbara Windsor Kenneth Connor Julian Holloway Peter Gilmore Julian Orchard Gertan Klauber David Davenport Margaret Nolan William Mervyn Derek Francis Bill Maynard Dave Prowse Patsy Rowlands Billy Cornelius John Bluthall Anthony Seagar Brian Wilde Peter Butterworth |
King Henry VIII Thomas Cromwell Roger De Lodgerly Queen Marie Cardinal Wolsey Bettina Hampton of Wick Sir Thomas King of France Duke De Poncenay Bidet Major Domo Buxom Woman Physician Farmer Guy Fawkes Warder Queen Guard Royal Tailer Heckler Warder Earl of Bristol |
| The Crew | |
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Producer Director Screenplay Music Cinematographer Editor |
Peter
Rogers Gerald Thomas Talbot Rothwell Eric Rogers Alan Hume BSc Alfred Roome |
Synopsis
This is the story of Henry VIII as told by William
Cobbler, and so can quite rightly be described as Cobblers. King Henry (Sid James) is at the altar with
Queen
Marie (Joan Sims) after just beheading his previous wife (Patsy Rowlands) and wants the
service hurried so that he can bed her.
But
once there he discovers she smells of garlic and so he wants ‘her ‘ed off’.
This
is not easy, however, as she is the sister to
the King of France. His eye starts to rove
and lands upon the lovely Bettina (Barbara Windsor), daughter of the Earl (Peter
Butterworth) of Bristol (where else!) and he starts his plot to get rid of his French
Queen.
This is another one of the top Carry Ons which is helped by a witty script and exotic looking locations. Kenneth Williams as Thomas Cromwell is not as camp as usual but plays off well against Terry Scott’s Cardinal Wolsey. Sid James plays Henry larger than life and nobody else could have filled his breeches. Joan Sims is left out of the laughs more than the regular Carry Oners but her characterization of Marie is not out of place.
Charles Hawtrey as Roger De Lodgerly steps in to Henry’s shoes in the bedroom department which is quite unusual for Hawtrey’s Carry On character as he usually plays either the loner or the mummy’s boy. Barbara Windsor as the buxom Bettina shows real chemistry with Sid, but there may have been an underlying reason for this – their relationship.
