Carry On Regardless - Film - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Carry On Regardless. Image shows left to right: Gabriel Dimple (Charles Hawtrey), Bert Handy (Sid James), Lily Duveen (Joan Sims), Montgomery Infield-Hopping (Terence Longdon), Delia King (Liz Fraser), Francis Courtenay (Kenneth Williams), Mike Weston (Bill Owen), Sam Twist (Kenneth Connor). Credit: STUDIOCANAL

Genre

Film

Released

1961

Stars

Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams, Bill Owen, Liz Fraser, Terence Longdon and more

Writer

Norman Hudis

Director

Gerald Thomas

Producers

Peter Rogers and Basil Keys

Company

Bert Handy, proprietor of the Helping Hands agency - promising to provide assistance for any task, big or small - is in a quandry. Accompanied only by his elderly secretary Miss Cooling, he's in desperate need of employees to provide said assistance, but to date even an advert in The Times hasn't proven successful!

Meanwhile at the labour exchange, there's a dire shortage of jobs (never mind interesting ones), so when a motley crew get wind of Helping Hands' need for staff, they can't get there quick enough - and Bert hires all seven of them on the spot.

Work quickly builds up at the agency: from pet walking to translation services; modelling to cleaning; hosting and queue-place-saving, even Handy himself has to get to work.

However, with the increasing workload come an increasingly odd set of assignments; and when Miss Cooling's careful organisational system is thrown awry by a careless cleaner, disaster could be on the cards!

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Part of

Carry On Films

UK certificate

U

Duration

88 minutes

UK release

Monday 27th March 1961

UK premiere

Friday 17th March 1961, Odeon, Marble Arch

Distributors

Anglo Amalgamated

Production

Studio

Camera set-up

Single camera

Picture

Black and white

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