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Carry on in the Legion
(1967)
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Kenneth Williams | ... | |
| Jim Dale | ... | ||
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Charles Hawtrey | ... | |
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Joan Sims | ... | |
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Angela Douglas | ... | |
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Peter Butterworth | ... | |
| Bernard Bresslaw | ... | ||
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Anita Harris | ... | |
| John Bluthal | ... | ||
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William Mervyn | ... | |
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Peter Gilmore | ... | |
| Julian Holloway | ... |
Ticket Collector
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Larry Taylor | ... |
Riff
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William Hurndell | ... |
Raff
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Bertram Oliphant West (also known as Bo West) wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation. He joins the Foreign Legion, with Simpson his manservant in tow. But the fort they get posted to is full of eccentric legionnaires, and there is trouble brewing with the locals too. Unbeknown to Bo, his lady love has followed him in disguise... Written by Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cs.cf.ac.uk>
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legionnaire | foreign legion | historical fiction | imperative in title | sequel |Taglines:
Bilko joins the carry On Legion See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
UKLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
September 1967 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
Carry on in the Legion See more »Box Office
Budget:
£230,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Corktip: You mean seven veils.
Sgt. Nocker: Why bother with preliminaries?
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Filming of the Sahara Desert scenes took place on Camber Sands, however filming was actually halted at one point due to snow. See more »Goofs
When Sergeant Knocker goes to Cork Tip's house he is wearing his medals. However when he is taken to the Oasis El Nooki he isn't wearing them. When he returns to the base after running away from his captors he is wearing them again. See more »Quotes
Sgt. Nocker: Hold it baby. How about giving us the Dance of the Two Veils?Corktip: You mean seven veils.
Sgt. Nocker: Why bother with preliminaries?
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I wasn't really expecting much out of this "Carry On" spoof on Foreign Legion films – but it turned out to be a highly agreeable entry in the long-running series. Unusually for them, the film-makers went for an American lead in the person of Phil Silvers – then again, his Sgt. Nocker here was directly inspired by the latter's popular Sgt. Bilko characterization (which originated on TV); actually, the clash of comedy styles works surprisingly well here.
Most of the series stalwarts are on hand – Kenneth Williams as German fort commandant Burger (with matching short hair); Charles Hawtrey as Captain Le Pice(!); Jim Dale as Beau West(!), a dishonored Englishman who joins the legion (accompanied by loyal valet Peter Butterworth) after losing girlfriend Angela Douglas; Bernard Bresslaw has one of his best roles as the flamboyant villainous sheik; and Joan Sims is Madam Zigzig, hostess of the local tavern. Anita Harris also makes an impression as a sultry belly-dancer.
Apart from the traditional desert-march-fraught-with-mirages sequence, there are a couple of delightful running gags here – the naïve Douglas (who decides to stick with Dale) is taken advantage of by several men on her journey to join her lover, and eventually ends in line to being made Bresslaw's 13th wife!; another involves the constant attempts to violently curtail the cock's heralding of each new day by the reluctant soldiers. This good-looking film – which actually anticipates the team's other outing with an exotic setting, the even better CARRY ON...UP THE KHYBER (1968) – is satisfyingly capped by an action-packed climax.