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Director:
Writer:
Talbot Rothwell (screenplay)
Release Date:
December 1972 (UK) more
Genre:
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
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
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Actor Jack Douglas Dead At 81
 (From WENN. 18 December 2008, 8:12 AM, PST)

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Room servicings? more (26 total)

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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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Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:L | Australia:PG | UK:A (original rating) (cut) | Australia:M | UK:PG (tv rating) | UK:PG (video rating)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
David Kernan, Sally Geeson and Joan Sims quite noticably fall over during the final scene. This was left in the final print. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Pepe falls into the hole in the hotel lounge, black curtains, which are to create darkness are clearly visible and move as he falls through the hole. more
Quotes:
Stuart Farquhar: My name is Stuart Farquhar, the representative of Wundatours.
Pepe: Stupid what?
Stuart Farquhar: STUART! STUART FARQUHAR!
Pepe: Ahh, you Mr. Farqiarse.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Can We Carry On, Girls? (2001) (TV) more

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9 out of 11 people found the following comment useful.
Room servicings?, 4 August 2004
Author: hugh1971 from London

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!'.

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