Carry on Camping (1969)

Sid and Bernie keep having their amorous intentions snubbed by their girlfriends Joan and Anthea. The boys suggest a camping holiday, secretly intending to take them to a nudist camp. Of ... See full summary »

Director:

Gerald Thomas

Writer:

Talbot Rothwell (screenplay)

Stars:

Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sidney James	...	Sid Boggle
Charles Hawtrey	...	Charlie Muggins
Joan Sims	...	Joan Fussey
Kenneth Williams	...	Doctor Kenneth Soaper
Terry Scott	...	Peter Potter
Barbara Windsor	...	Babs
Hattie Jacques	...	Miss Haggard
Bernard Bresslaw	...	Bernie Lugg
Julian Holloway	...	Jim Tanner
Dilys Laye	...	Anthea Meeks
Peter Butterworth	...	Josh Fiddler
Betty Marsden	...	Harriet Potter
Trisha Noble	...	Sally
Brian Oulton	...	Mr. Short
Derek Francis	...	Farmer

Storyline

Sid and Bernie keep having their amorous intentions snubbed by their girlfriends Joan and Anthea. The boys suggest a camping holiday, secretly intending to take them to a nudist camp. Of course they end up in the wrong place, and meet up with the weirdest bunch of campers you can imagine! Coach loads of sex-starved schoolgirls and bands of hippies all add to the laughs.

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Plot Keywords:

camping | carry on | holiday | nudist camp | seventeenth part | 

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Taglines:

AH WILDERNESS! when the CARRY ON gang finds a campsite for sore eyes

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Genres:

Comedy

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

20 June 1969 (USA)

Also Known As:

Das total verrückte Campingparadies

Filming Locations:

Pinewood Close, Iver, Buckinghamshire, UK

Company Credits

Production Co:

The Rank Organisation,Peter Rogers Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

88 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor) (uncredited)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Premiered in Hull, England, people were literally queuing around the block to see it. It was the highest grossing film in the United Kingdom in 1969. Carry On... Up the Khyber (1968) was the second grossing film that year.

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Goofs

When Charlie Muggins is pulled into the tent, in the exterior shot he is entering through the flap with the window, and in the interior shot, the flap without the window.

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Quotes

Babs: How about those two things sticking out in front?
Sid Boggle: Yeah! How about 'em!
Babs: Saucy!

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Connections

Referenced in The Kevin Bishop Show: Episode #2.3 (2009)

User Reviews

CARRY ON CAMPING (Gerald Thomas, 1969) **1/2

This is perhaps the quintessential "Carry On" film, which also means that it's terribly dated when viewed today! That said, it's quite funny scene by scene – even if the plot itself is alarmingly thin and disjointed.

In fact, it follows three separate narrative threads during the first half which then come together: one involving Sid James and Bernard Bresslaw and their girlfriends, sisters Joan Sims and Dilys Laye; another with bickering couple Terry Scott and Betty Marsden, who pick up annoying drifter Charles Hawtrey along the way; and the members of a finishing school (including perky Barbara Windsor) and led by the series' all-too-typically reserved authority figures – namely Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques. With this film, the bawdiness which has since become synonymous with the series really took off – beginning with the very opening sequence, which finds James et al in a cinema showing a documentary about a nudist campsite!; a scene in which James and Bresslaw spy on the women's baths through a hole in the wall was subsequently much imitated.

Many of the film's best moments highlight Terry Scott – exaggerating his afternoon activity when asked by the wife how it was, knowing full well she isn't lending him the slightest attention; his encounter with a bull in a field; at the end, when he takes stock of the situation in his tent and forcibly throws out Hawtrey. Popular British starlet Valerie Leon, who appeared in a number of "Carry Ons", has a bit here as a salesgirl. By the way, CARRY ON CAMPING was trimmed by the BBFC on its original release; ironically, it ended up being the highest grossing film of the year in the U.K.!