Carry on at Your Convenience (1971)

This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat; eventually everyone has to get fed up ... 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 Plummer
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

Storyline

This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat; eventually everyone has to get fed up with him. This is also the ideal opportunity for lots of lavatorial jokes...

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Plot Keywords:

playboy bunny | betting on horse | british culture | white collar | blue collar | 

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Taglines:

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

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Genres:

Comedy

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Carry On Line

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

10 December 1971 (UK)

Also Known As:

Carry on Round the Bend

Filming Locations:

Odeon Cinema, High St. Uxbridge, England, UK

Box Office

Budget:

£190,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

The Rank Organisation,Thomas Rogers Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor) (uncredited)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

At the same time as this Carry On movie was in production, Kenneth Williams was appearing in George Bernard Shaw's play "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" with Ingrid Bergman in London's West End. On Sundays, his day off from the theatre and the film, he was acting as the compère on the BBC variety programme Meanwhile on BBC2 (1971).

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Goofs

In W.C.Boggs' office, when Charles Coote has just designed a toilet, Sid decides to test it and sits down on it and reads a Racing paper. Charles says, "It was hardly designed as a reading room." In the next shot he can be seen saying the word "room" again but with no sound.

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Quotes

Chloe Moore: Oh, hello Fred, Sid just give me a lift home.
Fred Moore: I hope that's all he gave you!

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Connections

Follows Carry on Nurse (1959)

User Reviews

Carry On team go political and ostracise their fans?

I like this entry in the series, I really do. Many others however find it a dud and feel that it should be flushed down one of the toilets that feature at W.C. Boggs' factory in the film. Blending the obvious toilet gags with a tale about unionised shop floors, the Carry On team have actually crafted one of the franchise's less mucky pictures. Sid James, so long the bastion of sexually driven lechery in Carry On folklore, has a very restrained role in this one, and this to me somewhat explains to an extent why "Convenience" is often shunned by the series fans.

Elsewhere it's the subplots away from the factory that put the smile on my face. Charles Hawtrey is indulging in strip poker with shop steward, Vic Spanner's, mother!. While James' Sid Plummer is getting horse racing winners from his budgie,! all under the watchful eye of his apparently scatty wife Beattie {a terrific Hattie Jacques}. Sexy eye candy for us blokes comes in the form of Jacki Piper, and the film finale on the Brighton seaside is drunken buffoonery to at least raise a giggle or two. Not the best Carry On by a long shot predicted by Sid's budgie, but certainly not one of the worst either. 6.5/10