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 1960
"I'm finding it a bit hard already ... to understand." |
 "Funniest Carry On ever" |
90
min Black and White Cert U
| The Stars | |
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Sidney James Kenneth Connor Charles Hawtrey Joan Sims Kenneth Williams Hattie Jacques Bill Owen Liz Fraser Terence Longden Esma Cannon Fenella Fielding Stanley Unwin Eleanor Summerfield Ed Devereaux Cyril Chamberlain Joan Hickson Norman Rossington Nicholas Parsons Patrick Cargill Betty Marsden Eric Pohlmann Freddie Mills |
Bert Handy Sam Twist Gabriel Dimple Lily Duveen Francis Courtenay Matron Mike Weston Delia King Monty Infield-Hopping Miss Cooling Penny Panting Landlord Mrs Riley Mr Panting Park Keeper Nursing Sister Referee Wine Expert Customer Mata Hari Sinister Man Lefty |
| The Crew | |
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Producer Director Screenplay Music Cinematographer Editor |
Peter
Rogers Gerald Thomas Norman Hudis Bruce Montgomery Alan Hume BSc John Shirley |
Synopsis
Six unemployed men and women and the counter clerk from the job centre decide to join the Helping Hands agency for some adventure and excitement and the odd jobs they are called on to perform certainly provide plenty of both.
This Carry On is a little different from the others as
it is essentially a series of separate little sketches linked together by the Helping
Hands agency run by Bert handy (Sid James) and his assistant Miss Cooling (Esma Cannon).
The clients are played by many well known faces and the services
they require run from Fenella Fielding wanting a baby-sitter, Nicholas Parsons and Patrick Cargill wanting
assistance at a wine-tasting event where Lily Duveen (Joan Sims) ends up doing a lot of
the tasting, Joan Hickson and Hattie Jacques at a local hospital, and Sidney Tafler
needing a bouncer, to Freddie Mills looking for seconds for a boxing match. Sam Twist
(Kenneth Connor) gets a mixed-up phone message and awaits a rendezvous on the Forth Bridge
instead of making up a fourth at bridge. Multi-lingual Francis Courtenay (Kenneth
Williams) has to interpret an argument between a husband (Terence Alexander) and his
German wife (Julia Arnall), as well as taking a monkey for a walk.
The staff all join together in a slapstick sequence when they have to perform as demonstrators at the Ideal Home Exhibition and an office spring-clean leads to a mix-up of assignments and a joining of the various strands of the story.
Stanley Unwin, who baffles everyone with his gobbledegook language, is proven at the end to be their landlord who has been wanting them out, but after they inadvertently ruin a property they were hired to clean up thereby enhancing the land value he changes his mind. What else can they do but carry on regardless.
