The Complete A–Z of Everything Carry On. Richard Webber

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СКАЧАТЬ Lose Your Head, Abroad, Girls and Dick

      Jimmy Devis, born in London in 1931, followed his brother into the film industry in 1946, joining Gaumont-British, based at Lime Grove, as a mail boy. He spent a short spell in the cutting room and, later, joined the camera department.

      After the studios closed, Devis completed his National Service in the RAF, before returning home and, in 1952, working as a freelance clapper-loader. It wasn’t long until he was offered a contract at Pinewood, where he worked between 1952–60, before returning to a freelance status.

      He retired in 2001, by which time he was working as a director of photography for second units and directing action units. His long list of credits include Return to Oz, Wild Geese II, Labyrinth, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, Avalanche, Superman, For Your Eyes Only, Empire of the Sun and Daylight.

       MEMORIES

      ‘The Carry Ons were some of my favourite films to work on because they were humorous, there was no tension and they were organised. And what a wonderful crew and cast.

      ‘I was given my first chance as a camera operator on Don’t Lose Your Head and, fortunately, Alan Hume and Gerry Thomas were very patient. They liked to shoot within one or two takes and on my first shot, which was very difficult, I took about seven goes. There was a big crowd, and it turned out to be one of the most difficult I had to do for them. It was a scene set in Paris where people are queuing up at the guillotine while others arrive by cart. We had to pan them, then track back and look up at the guillotine. In the background there were other sets, which were very tall, that were going to be used for another film. Trying to keep them out of the picture, together with everything else, made it very difficult. I was really sweating but fortunately everything turned out well in the end.’

       JIMMY DEVIS

      DIAMOND, ARNOLD

      Role: 5th Specialist in Sergeant

      Born in London in 1915, Arnold Diamond started his working life as a librarian, acting as an amateur during the evenings, until he was called up for the Second World War. During hostilities he was wounded and transported to an Italian hospital for POWs, where upon recovering he wrote and directed plays for fellow prisoners.

      CARRY ON DICK

      A Peter Rogers production

      Distributed through Fox / Rank Distribution Ltd

      Released as an A certificate in 1974 in colour

      Running time: 91 mins

      CAST

Sidney James	Dick Turpin / The Rev. Flasher
Kenneth Williams	Captain Desmond Fancey
Barbara Windsor	Harriett
Hattie Jacques	Martha Hoggett
Bernard Bresslaw	Sir Roger Daley
Joan Sims	Madame Desiree
Peter Butterworth	Tom
Kenneth Connor	Constable
Jack Douglas	Sgt Jock Strapp
Patsy Rowlands	Mrs Giles
Bill Maynard	Bodkin
Margaret Nolan	Lady Daley
John Clive	Isaak the Tailor
David Lodge	Bullock
Marianne Stone	Maggie
Patrick Durkin	William
Sam Kelly	Sir Roger’s Coachman
George Moon	Mr Giles
Michael Nightingale	Squire Trelawney
Brian Osborne	Browning
Anthony Bailey	Rider
Brian Coburn and Max
Faulkner	Highwaymen
Jeremy Connor and Nosher
Powell	Footpads
Joy Harrington	Lady
Larry Taylor and Billy
Cornelius	Tough Men
Laraine Humphrys
Linda Hooks
Penny Irving
Eva Reuber-Staier	‘The Birds of Paradise’

      PRODUCTION TEAM

      Screenplay by Talbot Rothwell

      Based on a treatment by Lawrie Wyman and George Evans

      Music composed and conducted by Eric Rogers

      Production Manager: Roy Goddard

      Art Director: Lionel Couch

      Editor: Alfred Roome

      Director of Photography: Ernest Steward

      Camera Operator: Jimmy Devis

      Continuity: Jane Buck

      Assistant Director: David Bracknell

      Sound Recordists: Danny Daniel and Ken Barker

      Make-up: Geoffrey Rodway

      Hairdresser: Stella Rivers

      Costume Design: Courtenay Elliott

      Set Dresser: Charles Bishop

      Dubbing Editor: Peter Best

      Master of Horse: Gerry Wain

      Assistant Editor: Jack Gardner

      Casting Director: John Owen

      Stills Cameraman: Tom Cadman

      Wardrobe Mistresses: Vi Murray and Maggie Lewin

      Coach and Horses supplied by George Mossman

      Titles: G.S.E. Ltd

      Processed by Rank Film Laboratories

      Producer: Peter Rogers

      Director: Gerald Thomas

      Sgt. Strapp (Jack Douglas) took a peep once too often

      It’s 1750 and England is rife with crime. Highwaymen are a constant threat on the roads, and none more so than Richard Turpin, better known as Big Dick due to the extraordinary size of his weapon. To help wipe out the tidal wave of crime, a special police force, the Bow Street Runners, is set up by King George and run by Sir Roger Daley, who himself becomes a victim of the elusive Dick Turpin, leaving him and his wife, Lady Daley, naked and embarrassed.

      Just when the Bow Street Runners believe they’re closing in on the criminal, he slips out of their hands into the darkness. Unbeknown to the police, by day Dick Turpin dons a cassock and dog collar and becomes the Reverend Flasher. When the attacks continue, Captain Fancey and Sergeant Jock Strapp of the Bow Street Runners take personal responsibility for tracking down the dastardly villain.

      They head for the Old Cock Inn, a well-known watering hole amongst the criminal fraternity, pretending to be crooks in search of some clues to help capture Turpin; when an old woman, Maggie, the local midwife, tells them that Turpin has a birthmark on his ‘diddler’, Jock Strapp СКАЧАТЬ