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Carry On Abroad (Original title)
Dates: 1972 (Copyright), 31 December 1972 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Gerald Thomas

Synopsis: Comedy. A party of British holiday-makers set off for a long weekend package holiday at the resort of Elsbels. Led by WundaTours representatives Stuart Farquhar and Moira Plunkett, they are dismayed to find that the hotel is still under construction and it has problems like taps that run with sand, unexpectedly shared bathrooms, bottomless drawers and wardrobes with no backs that look straight into the neighbouring room. A series of comical disasters duly befall the holidaymakers.

Genre:
Comedy

Subject:
Package holidays
Releases
Date: 1972Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 88 mins Length: 7928 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (27)
©: Rank Film Distributors, Presented by: The Rank Organisation, [Production Company]: Peter Rogers Productions, G.T. Productions Limited, Produced by: Peter Rogers, Production Manager: Jack Swinburne, Assistant Director: David Bracknell, Continuity: Joy Mercer, Screenplay by: Talbot Rothwell, Director of Photography: Alan Hume, Camera Operator: Jimmy Devis, Editor: Alfred Roome, Assistant Editor: Jack Gardner, Art Director: Lionel Couch, Assistant Art Director: Bill Bennison, Set Dresser: Don Picton, Costume Designer: Courtenay Elliott, [Wardrobe]: Vi Murray, Maggie Lewin, Make-up: Geoffrey Rodway, Haidresser: Stella Rivers, Titles: General Screen Enterprises, Music Composed and Conducted by: Eric Rogers, Sound Recordist: Taffy Haines, Ken Barker, Dubbing Editor: Peter Best
Cast (28)
Sidney James (Vic Flange), Kenneth Williams (Stuart Farquhar), Charles Hawtrey (Eustace Tuttle), Joan Sims (Cora Flange), Bernard Bresslaw (Brother Bernard), Barbara Windsor (Sadie Tomkins), Kenneth Connor (Stanley Blunt), Peter Butterworth (Pepe), Jimmy Logan (Bert Conway), June Whitfield (Evelyn Blunt), Hattie Jacques (Floella), Derek Francis (Brother Martin), Sally Geeson (Lily), Ray Brooks (Georgio), Carol Hawkins (Marge), John Clive (Robin), Jack Douglas (Harry), Patsy Rowlands (Miss Dobbs), Gail Grainger (Moira Plunkett), David Kernan (Nicholas), Amelia Bayntun (Tuttle's mother), Alan Curtis (police chief), Gertan Klauber (vendor), Brian Osborne (stall holder), Hugh Futcher (2nd cop), Olga Lowe (madam), Bill Maynard ([fiddler]), Lindsay Marsh ([air hostess])