Carry
On Cruising Trivia
- Although Norman Hudis wrote the script, the idea of a
Carry On Holiday was suggested by Carry On Irregular Eric Barker. His
original idea was for a touring holiday on a coach, but Peter Rogers gave
him the credit anyway. Mind you, the idea was used twice more, in
At Your Convenience and in Abroad.
- Lance Percival, who plays the chef remembers one
particularly difficult scene, "They were trying to get the cake to blow
up in my face. It was done with a pressure pump underneath with the
cake mixture sitting on top of an air pipe. When they
pressed a button the mixture was to shoot all over my face. However, every time
I leaned over to 'smell the aroma' just before it exploded, I blinked as it
actually shot up i.e. I knew it was coming! Therefore it took nine takes to
get a scene that lasts ten seconds - unheard of in a Carry On".
- P & O run a £500 competition for the lucky winner to
win a Carry On Cruising holiday of a lifetime.
- Lance Percival plays the chef Wilfred
Haines, but this part was originally written for Charles Hawtrey, but due to
disagreements between Hawtrey and producer Peter Rogers over money and
billing, Percival got this part instead of the part of Sam the drunk, which
he was up for in the first place.
- Kenneth Connor didn't do his own singing (to
Flo), this was dubbed by Roberto Cardinali.
- The First Carry On to filmed in Colour.
- Ralph Thomas, Carry On director Gerald
Thomas' brother, co-directed this film together but didn't get a credit for
it.
- Joan Sims was cast as Flo Castle originally,
but Dilys Laye had to step in due to Joan becoming ill after a long run in
the play The Lord Chamberlain Regrets.
- Originally devised not on a ship but on a
touring coach - which was used later in Convenience.
