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Director:
Writer:
Talbot Rothwell (screenplay)
Release Date:
December 1972 (UK) more
Tagline:
The holiday of a Laugh-time!
Plot:
A group of holidaymakers head for the Spanish resort of Elsbels for a 4-day visit. When they get there... more | add synopsis
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Room servicings? more (26 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Sid James | ... | Vic Flange (as Sidney James) | |
| Kenneth Williams | ... | Stuart Farquhar | |
| Charles Hawtrey | ... | Eustace Tuttle | |
| Joan Sims | ... | Cora Flange | |
| Bernard Bresslaw | ... | Brother Bernard | |
| Barbara Windsor | ... | Sadie Tomkins | |
| Kenneth Connor | ... | Stanley Blunt | |
| Peter Butterworth | ... | Pepe | |
| Jimmy Logan | ... | Bert Conway | |
| June Whitfield | ... | Evelyn Blunt | |
| Hattie Jacques | ... | Floella | |
| Derek Francis | ... | Brother Martin | |
| Sally Geeson | ... | Lily | |
| Ray Brooks | ... | Georgio | |
| Carol Hawkins | ... | Marge |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
A Mad Holiday!
Carry on Abroad or What a Package or It's All in or Swiss Hols in the Snow (UK) (long title)
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Runtime:
88 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Iceland:L | Australia:PG | UK:A (original rating) (cut) | Australia:M | UK:PG (tv rating) | UK:PG (video rating)
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There was no music played during the filming of the party scene. Cast members had to improvise their dance steps as the scene continued. Even though the music remains the same, actors are often noticed dancing too fast or doing the wrong steps to the music. The music was added to the final film later in production. Eric Rogers wrote the score as he did for the majority of the "Carry On..." films. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Mrs Blunt picks up her towel and toilet bag, when on her way to the bathroom, her toilet bag moves from one hand to the other between shots. more
Quotes:
Stuart Farquhar:
Afternoon, Miss Dobbs, a lovely day for it.
Miss Dobbs:
That's what they all say, Mr Farquhar, but it won't get you anywhere.
Stuart Farquhar:
I meant for the Elsbels trip, Miss Dobbs.
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Featured in Carry on Snogging (1998) (TV) more
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A hilarious low budget romp for the carry on team. This film sends up both foriegners and Brits. The new idea of package holidays was a rich vein for comedy in the early seventies (see also the brilliant 'Are You Being Served' film), a time when most British people had never been abroad before (except perhaps during the war), so there was much scope for humour.
Amazingly the British weather held up long enough for the island of Elsbels (Camber Sands) to look convincingly like a mediterranean resort (well...in winter anyway!) but a large number of scenes are indoors anyway, so it doesn't matter. All the usual smut, innuendo, and gags about falling down hotels are there, and I defy anyone not to chuckle a few times. The only slight downside is the rather poor acting by Kenneth Williams' assistant, but she is extremely 'easy on the eye' so gets away with it.
My favourite scene is when the prison guard gives the gang the 'fine old British gesture' of two fingers up, to which Kenneth Connor replies 'Damned FILTH!'.