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    Carry On Regardless (1961)

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    This is a mixed-up collection of Carry On delights with a totally meaningless title for a totally plotless array of brief comic situations and familiar character players. As the title suggests, this film – the fifth in the popular Carry On franchise – is devoid of any real thematic focus, and wanders aimlessly but memorably through myriad scenarios in which anything can happen.

    Bert Handy (Sid James) runs the Helping Hands Odd Job Agency, and he’s recruiting new staff. But the people he gets from the Employment Exchange are inexperienced, and end up confused and bewildered as they mix up their respective tasks, as do the people they are supposed to help.

    Sam Twist (Kenneth Connor) bumbles around nervously as women make advances (including a particularly lush Fenella Fielding), Francis Courtenay (Kenneth Williams) stomps through the working-class masses with his nose in the air, Lily Duveen (Joan Sims) has the frumpy female gags thrown at her and ‘Gabi’ Dimple (Charles Hawtrey) minces about in the background with a constant smile and a wickedly sparkling glint in his eye.

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    Hattie Jacques was supposed to have one of the main parts in the film but due to ill health, some of her role was given to Joan Sims. Jacques was given a minor role as a sister. Liz Fraser joins the team in the first of her Carry On appearances as glamour girl Delia King.

    The element of stability in the film is in the office sequences where boss Bert Handy and flustered assistant Miss Cooling (Esma Cannon) dish out the various oddball assignments and try and tie the whole into a seamless comedy of community and innuendo. Hugely welcome performers wander through the proceedings as the seven ‘Helping Hands’ eagerly try and complete their assignments.

    All is fine and dandy in the end as the problems are resolved and the job of cleaning one of Stanley Unwin’s properties creates a whiz-bang, dust-covered, gloriously messy climax which ends the only way it can – with Kenneth W translating Unwin’s last words as “carry on regardless”.

    Bert Handy
    Sid James
    Sam Twist

    Kenneth Connor
    Francis Courtenay

    Kenneth Williams
    Gabriel ‘Gabi’ Dimple

    Charles Hawtrey
    Lily Duveen

    Joan Sims
    Delia King

    Liz Fraser
    Mike Weston

    Bill Owen
    Penny Panting

    Fenella Fielding
    Montgomery Infield-Hopping

    Terence Longdon
    Mata Hari

    Betty Marsden
    Wolf

    Nicholas Parsons
    Miss Cooling

    Esma Cannon
    Landlord

    Stanley Unwin
    Lefty

    Freddie Mills
    Dynamite Dan

    Joe Robinson
    Helen Delling

    Carole Shelley
    Mr Panting

    Ed Devereaux

    Director
    Gerald Thomas

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