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

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Sidney James	Vic Flange
Kenneth Williams	Stuart Farquhar
Charles Hawtrey	Eustace Tuttle
Joan Sims	Cora Flange
Peter Butterworth	Pepe
Kenneth Connor	Stanley Blunt
Hattie Jacques	Floella
Bernard Bresslaw	Brother Bernard
Barbara Windsor	Miss Sadie Tomkins
Jimmy Logan	Bert Conway
June Whitfield	Evelyn Blunt
Sally Geeson	Lily
Carol Hawkins	Marge
Gail Grainger	Moira Plunkett
Ray Brooks	Georgio
John Clive	Robin Tweet
David Kernan	Nicholas Phipps
Patsy Rowlands	Miss Dobbs
Derek Francis	Brother Martin
Jack Douglas	Harry
Amelia Bayntun	Mrs Tuttle
Alan Curtis	Police Chief
Hugh Futcher	Jailer
Gertan Klauber	Postcard Seller
Brian Osborne	Stall-Holder
Olga Lowe	Madame Fifi

       PRODUCTION TEAM

      Screenplay by Talbot Rothwell

      Music composed and conducted by Eric Rogers

      Production Manager: Jack Swinburne

      Art Director: Lionel Couch

      Editor: Alfred Roome

      Director of Photography: Alan Hume BSC

      Camera Operator: Jimmy Devis

      Continuity: Joy Mercer

      Assistant Director: David Bracknell

      Sound Recordists: Taffy Haines and Ken Barker

      Make-up: Geoffrey Rodway

      Assistant Art Director: Bill Bennison

      Set Dresser: Don Picton

      Hairdresser: Stella Rivers

      Costume Designer: Courtenay Elliott

      Dubbing Editor: Peter Best

      Assistant Editor: Jack Gardner

      Titles: G.S.E. Ltd

      Processed by Rank Film Laboratories

      Producer: Peter Rogers

      Director: Gerald Thomas

      Vic Flange, a pub landlord, is going on holiday; he’s taking a short break to the Mediterranean resort of Elsbels without his missus, Cora, who hates flying. Not that Vic is worried because it gives him a chance to while away a few days with the flirtatious Sadie Tomkins. His plans are spoilt, though, when one of the regulars, Harry, spills the beans. Hearing that Vic’s off to Elsbels, he tells Cora that Sadie is going too, which makes Vic’s wife determined to overcome her aversion to flying to prevent Miss Tomkins getting her claws into her husband.

      Vic, Cora and Sadie are joined by a rather disparate bunch, all taking advantage of Wundatours’ £17 break in the sun, consisting of Marge and Lily, two girls looking for a holiday romance; a group of missionaries searching for the tomb of St Cecilia; Stanley Blunt and his complaining wife, Evelyn; mummy’s boy Eustace Tuttle; the loudmouthed Scot, Bert Conway and a rather gay Robin Tweet and his friend, Nicholas. In charge of the party is the inefficient courier, Stuart Farquhar, and his assistant, Moira Plunkett.

      On arriving at the Elsbels Palace Hotel it looks like a holiday from hell is on the cards: it resembles a building site more than a hotel; the switchboard is soon overloaded with complaints about bottomless drawers, taps that spew out sand and backless wardrobes looking straight through into the adjoining bedroom.

      Stuart Farquhar (Kenneth Williams), the world’s worst courier

      Under the spotlight at the Elsbels Palace Hotel

      Despite the hotel only being half-built and builders causing a commotion from five in the morning, relationships blossom. While Brother Bernard, a missionary, forsakes the cloth upon taking a shine to Marge, Nicholas shakes off his camp boyfriend, Robin, to soak up the sun in the company of Lily.

      When the holidaymakers head for the local village, with the exception of Evelyn Blunt who’s accidentally left behind at the hotel, Mr Tuttle causes trouble in Madame Fifi’s, a bawdyhouse, by asking the girls to play leapfrog; when he rushes back in brandishing a sword, others go in to help, resulting in a riot between the Brits and the police – even Brother Bernard gets involved when he spots a local bobby manhandling Marge.

      As a result of the brawling, everyone spends the night in the police cells with attempts to negotiate their release with the Police Chief, who happens to be Madame Fifi’s brother, falling on deaf ears – that is until Moira uses her charm – and probably her body – to persuade the chief to give them back their freedom. By the time they return to the hotel, Evelyn Blunt is a changed woman, as Stanley soon finds out. Gone is the complaining and lack of interest in sex, replaced by a woman who, after whiling away the previous evening in the arms of Georgio, is making up for all those lost years – much to Stanley’s delight.

      But at the evening’s farewell party the mood is far from conducive to having a laugh; that is until a secret love potion, bought at the local market, is poured into the punch. Before long, the party is swinging and even Pepe, the hotel manager, and Floella, the cook, are joining in the fun, despite the ramshackle hotel collapsing around them thanks to the evening’s torrential rain.

      ADMIRAL

      Played by Peter Butterworth

      A randy old sailor in Girls who’s been a permanent resident at Fircombe’s Palace Hotel for years. He’s in his element when the hotel is overrun by beauty contestants, all hoping to be crowned Miss Fircombe, many of whom become victims of his bottom-pinching tendencies.

      ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET

      Played by Jack Lynn

      Sir John is seen dining at the French Ambassador’s residence in Emmannuelle.

      ADRIAN

      Played by Julian Holloway

      A highly-strung photographer who appears in Loving. He’s in turmoil because he’s looking for a big-chested lass for his next assignment and has offended his girlfriend, Gay, by suggesting she falls short of the requirements. His eyes nearly pop out of their sockets when the busty Jenny Grubb walks into the flat Gay shares with Sally Martin; he’s finally found what he’s been looking for and proceeds to launch Jenny’s modelling career advertising body stockings.

       ADVANCED CRIMINOLOGY

      This book, written by A.C. Ball, is read by PC Benson in Constable.

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