  or The African Queen or Stop Beating About the Bush or Show Me Your Waterhold and I'll Show You Mine |
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1970
"Oh, I don't think we will ever get to seven" |
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 "The Carry On team - in Starkest Africa" |
89
min Colour Cert A
| The Stars | |
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Frankie Howerd Sidney James Joan Sims Kenneth Connor Charles Hawtrey Terry Scott Bernard Bresslaw Jacki Piper Valerie Leon Edwina Carroll Valeria Moore Nina Baden-Semper Rueben Martin |
Professor
Tinkle Bill Boosey Lady Evelyn Bagley Claude Chumley Tonka Jungle Boy Upsy Daisy June Leda Nerda Lubi Lieutenant Nosha Gorilla |
| The Crew | |
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Producer Director Screenplay Music Cinematographer Editor |
Peter
Rogers Gerald Thomas Talbot Rothwell Eric Rogers Ernest Stewerd BSc Alfred Roome |
Synopsis
This film was an immediate non-starter due to the
fact that the exotic locations required were never going to happen due to the notorious
tight purse strings on the Carry On films. What
we end up with instead are obvious studio sets with stock footage of various wild animals.
Terry Scott takes the lead as Jungle Boy in a role
that was written with Jim Dale in mind and it doesn’t seem to work as it
should.
Bernard Bresslaw pulls off a native with his usual
aplomb. Frankie Howerd makes his reappearance
in the Carry Ons playing Frankie Howerd as always, but saying that he does have some of
the classic comedy moments. Joan Sims moving
out of her dolly bird period in the Carry Ons into the more mature role of Lady Evelyn
Bagley comes across well with scenes such as the mistaken advances she thinks she is
getting under the dinner table.
he explorers of this film all have their own reasons for the journey, Dr Tinkle is after a rare bird, Lady Bagley is looking for her family and Bill Boosey is just along for the ride. In the course of the journey Lady Bagley comes across her long lost husband, who is King of the all-female Nosha tribe when they are captured by them. As there are no men around, the males of the expedition are put to good use!!
