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    Carry On Girls (1973)

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    Carry On Girls conjures up the ultimate in wet and windy, bored and mindless seaside communities, Fircombe.

    The ever-enterprising Sidney Fiddler (Sid James) dreams up the entertainment boosting and business attracting idea of a beauty contest and epitomises the feel-good innuendo and down-to-earth humour of the series.

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    The film establishes two camps, with Sid’s glorious celebration of innuendo vs. Augusta Prodworthy’s (June Whitfield) downtrodden troop of campaigners against “the sexual gratification of a lot of drooling men!”

    Sid’s problems start with two curvaceous Hells Angels, Miss Easy Rider and Miss Dawn Brakes. Also in attendance are Peter Potter (Bernard Bresslaw), Britain’s first drag beauty queen, the Admiral (Peter Butterworth), the hotel’s resident frustrated sex maniac and Frederick Bumble (Kenneth Connor), the master of incompetent authority.

    There’s an air of staleness about some of the sequences as if all had done this so many times that the fun and games were getting a bit wearing.

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    Indeed, everybody is showing their age and poor old Sid, still guffawing at every gag and chatting up the contestants, looks clearly older.

    By now Talbot Rothwell was running out of new ways to coyly refer to sex and the nudge, nudge sense of humour was beginning to wane at the box-office.

    Still, it’s an essential entry in the series.

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    Sidney Fiddler
    Sidney James
    Connie Philpotts 

    Joan Sims
    Mayor Frederick Bumble 

    Kenneth Connor
    Hope Springs 

    Barbara Windsor
    Peter Potter 

    Bernard Bresslaw
    Augusta Prodworthy 

    June Whitfield
    Admiral 

    Peter Butterworth
    William 

    Jack Douglas
    Mildred Bumble 

    Patsy Rowlands
    Mrs Dukes 

    Joan Hickson
    Paula Perkins 

    Valerie Leon
    Dawn Breaks 

    Margaret Nolan
    Debra 

    Sally Geeson
    Miss Bangor 

    Angela Grant
    Ida Downs 

    Wendy Richard
    Larry Prodworthy
    Robin Askwith

    Director
    Gerald Thomas

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