Carry on Cruising

Carry on Cruising

Star Cast	-         Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser, Esma Cannon, Lance Percival, Dilys Laye
Director	-          Gerald Thomas
Producer	-          Peter Rogers
Rating	-          UA
Year of Release	-          1962
Category	-          Hollywood
Genre	-          Comedy

  Movie Gist

Captain Crowther addressing his crew

  This laughter terror is about how a Captain tries to adjust himself with the last moment changes on his ship – Happy Wanderer.

Dr. Binn & First Officer Marjoribanks

Captain Crowther (Sid James) learns that there are five new crew members (officers) on the top five positions, just before the voyage begins. He finds out that the new crew is highly incompetent. To add on to his problems, the passengers are also a bunch of strange-behaving people. Captain Crowther hopes that his next voyage would be a captain on the transatlantic ship & that he would take some of his crew members along with him.

Captain Crowther

The Happy Wanderer begins its voyage from England & passes through various ports – Spain, Italy & North Africa. Among the passengers on board are two single ladies –

Flo & Gladys

Gladys (Liz Fraser) & Flo (Dilys Laye). They are traveling with a hope that Flo might find a husband on the ship. So she tries to find her partner in the PT instructor – Jenkins (Vincent Ball) as well as Captain Crowther. However, Dr. Binn (Kenneth Connor) – one of the new crew officers, falls for her; she neglects him. There is a

Bridget

Haynes baking cake for Captain Crowther

passenger (Ronnie Stevens) whose only interest on the ship is the bar. Bridget (Esma Cannon) is at her best. The other new recruit is the head chef – Wilfred Haynes (Lance Percival) finds out that he is sea-sick & takes his treatment from Dr. Binn.

First Officer Marjoribanks (Kenneth Williams), who is also a new crew member, is over-confident as always. He helps Gladys in being cupid to Dr. Binn & Flo. The new crew makes the captain happy with the dedication in their work. The five of them decide to hold a party for Captain Crowther along with the passengers.

Dr. Binn, Captain Crowther & First Officer Marjoribanks
at the party

Haynes bakes him a cake; while the new bar-tender cables the former one & offers the Captain his favorite drink – Aberdeen Angus.

The party is on in full swing when Captain Crowther gets a telegram mentioning an offer that he would be sailing as a captain in the new transatlantic ship. He turns down the offer & wishes to be with his own crew.

Carry On Cleo

Carry On…Cleo

Star Cast	-     Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Amanda Barrie, Jim Dale
Director	-          Gerald Thomas
Producer	-          Peter Rogers
Rating	-          A
Year of Release	-          1964
Category	-          Hollywood
Genre	-          Comedy

  Movie Gist

Horsa & Hengist in a Briton village

  The movie is about an attempt by a bungling slave, Hengist (Kenneth Connor) to rescue his master, the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar (Kenneth Williams) against assassination. 

Julius Caesar with Mark Antony

Mark Antony with Cleo

The Romans invade Britain with an army led by Mark Antony (Sid James). The army attacks a Briton village where its residents still live in caves & wear animal skins. They capture & enslave some of the villagers & take them to Rome. Among the villagers are – square wheel maker Hengist Pod (William Connor) & a fearless warrior Horsa (Jim Dale). The slaves are bought by a trader Spencius & auctioned. No one bids for Hengist; he’s listed in for lion-fodder. When an attempt is made to

Cleo & Mark Antony conspiring
against Caesar

kill Caesar, Horsa fiercely fights & kills his enemies. In a confusion, Hengist gets all the credit instead of Horsa; & is made Caesar’s bodyguard.

Front to back - Hengist, Caesar & Horsa
trying to escape from Egypt

Meanwhile, Caesar’s best friend – Mark Antony is sent to Egypt for an alliance. Antony is overwhelmed after seeing Cleopatra aka Cleo (Amanda Barrie), the Egyptian Queen. He falls for her. The only way for Antony to achieve her is by killing Caesar & Hengist. 
However, Antony’s plan to kill Caesar in Egypt goes in vain. Caesar, Horsa, Hengist & the other British countrymen escape to Britain.  

Carry On Spying

            Carry On Spying

 

Star Cast	-      Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Bernard Cribbins, Dilys Laye, Eric Barker, Jim Dale, Judith Furse
Director	-          Gerald Thomas
Producer	-          Peter Rogers
Rating	-          UA
Year of Release	-          1964
Category	-          Hollywood
Genre	-          Comedy

  Movie Gist

  This hilarious comedy is about how a not-so-famous & an unprofessional detective & his gang carry on with spying.

Secret Service Chief & Agent Simpkins

One of the STENCH (Society for the Total Extinction of Non-Conforming Humans) agents, disguised as a milkman –

Left to right - Agent Simpkins, Agent Bind
Agent Crump & Agent Honeybutt

The Fat Man

Dr. Crow

Agent Honeybutt getting tortured

Milchmann, steals the top secret chemical formula from the laboratory. The Chief of the Secret Service worries about what would happen if the formula went into wrong hands. He, therefore, reluctantly appoints the only agent he has left with for the mission to retrieve the formula. The agent is a least-able operative, ignorant & bumbling Agent Desmond Simpkins (Kenneth Williams) & his inept, unstable trio of trainees – Agent Daphne Honeybutt (Barbara Windsor), Agent Charlie Bind (Charles Hawtrey) & Agent Harold Crump (Bernard Cribbins). They travel across the globe in search of the precious top secret formula. There is yet another agent

hired – Carstairs (Jim Dale), considering the lack of experience in Agent Simpkins & his trio.

Agent Simpkins & his trio in
Dr. Crow's secret layer

The four (Agent Simpkins & his trio) are hot on their trail, chasing the antagonists. The disguises are gadgets’ galore are a necessity to win against the villains. On their way they encounter the STENCH agents, the Milchmann & the Fat Man. There is a lot of idiocy involved during the search process, until they end up in dastardly Dr. Crow’s (Judith Furse) secret layer.

The trio imprisoned by Dr. Crow

The movie goes on how Agent Simpkins & his trio manage to escape from the tortures of Dr. Crow & retrieve the formula. Outstanding moments in the movie are the photographic memory of Agent Daphne, Agent Simpkins’ overconfidence in the search & the torture in the secret layer of Dr. Crow.