Carry on at Your Convenience (1971)

User Rating:

4.5/10   

Director:

Gerald Thomas

Writer:

Talbot Rothwell (writer)

Release Date:

December 1971 (UK)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Flushed with success, the Carry On Team carries on round the bend

Plot:

This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative...

Plot Keywords:

Carry On | Sequel | Independent Film | Actor Shares First Name With Character

Cast

Sid James	...	Sid Plummer (as Sidney James)
Kenneth Williams	...	W. C. Boggs
Charles Hawtrey	...	Charles Coote
Joan Sims	...	Chloë Moore
Hattie Jacques	...	Beattie Plummer
Bernard Bresslaw	...	Bernie Hulke
Kenneth Cope	...	Vic Spanner
Patsy Rowlands	...	Hortence Withering
Jacki Piper	...	Myrtle Plummer
Richard O'Callaghan	...	Lewis Boggs
Bill Maynard	...	Fred Moore
Davy Kaye	...	Benny
Renee Houston	...	Agatha Spanner
Marianne Stone	...	Maud
Margaret Nolan	...	Popsy

Also Known As:

Carry on Round the Bend
Carry on at Your Convenience or Down the Spout or Ladies Please Be Seated or Up the Workers or Labour Relations Are the People Who Come to You When You're Having a Baby (UK) (long title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:L | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) (1987)

Filming Locations:

Black Park Country Park, Wexham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Rank Organisation, The

Trivia:

The first "Carry On..." film to lose money at the box office and only made broke even in 1978 after distribution rights and television deals.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Lewis is chasing the Works Outing coach in his sports car, both vehicles are on a two-lane carriageway, but when in medium close shot he waves, he is on a three-lane road, and then when seen from inside the coach - it's a two-lane carriageway again.

Quotes:

Chloe Moore: Fred do you really think I would I'd want to play around with anyone else about when I got a smashing bloke like you to play around with?
Fred Moore: I know women, when there's no prime beef handy they'll do with any old scrag end.
Chloe Moore: Well then you want to make sure there's plenty of prime beef when they need it, don't you?

Movie Connections:

Featured in Can We Carry On, Girls? (2001) (TV)

Very funny

I find this one of the most unusual carry ons,as it seems to take life a bit more serious,its more kitchen sink drama, which for this carry on is appropriate for the title.For me it has the funniest plot of all,which is the budgie who can pick horse winners,and the excellent teaming of Sid James and Hattie Jacques as the married couple.Vic the union leader and his nagging Irish mum are also very funny.Although the usually very funny Bill Maynard seems a bit wasted in this film,i don't think he gets many funny lines,if any.On the whole this is a very enjoyable carry on,and the only time you see a man get spanked in a film, which was quite original.It was a carry on, which tried to be different from the others and does succeed.Although it does still have the same naughty gags,but then thats what carry on films are for.We don't make films like these anymore so enjoy them while you can.