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Carry On Regardless (Original title)
Dates: 1961 (Copyright), 27 March 1961 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Gerald Thomas

Synopsis: Wild adventures and misadventures of co-partners in an unconventional employment agency.

Genre:
Comedy

Subject:
Employment agencies
Releases
Date: 1961Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 90 mins Length: 8100 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (22)
©: Anglo Amalgamated Film Distributors, [Production Company]: G.H.W. Productions, Produced by: Peter Rogers, Associate Producer: Basil Keys, Unit Manager: Claude Watson, Assistant Director: Jack Causey, Continuity: Gladys Goldsmith, Casting Director: Betty White, Screenplay by: Norman Hudis, Director of Photography: Alan Hume, Camera Operator: Dudley Lovell, Editor: John Shirley, Art Director: Lionel Couch, Costume Designer: Joan Ellacott, Make Up: George Blackler, Hairdressing: Biddy Chrystal, Music Composed & Directed by: Bruce Montgomery, Sound Recordist: Robert T. MacPhee, Gordon Mccallum, Sound Editor: Arthur Ridout, Made at: Pinewood Studios
Cast (61)
Sidney James (Bert Handy), Kenneth Connor (Sam Twist), Charles Hawtrey (Gabriel Dimple), Joan Sims (Lily Duveen), Kenneth Williams (Francis Courtenay), Bill Owen (Mike Weston), Liz Fraser (Delia King), Terence Longdon (Montgomery Infield-Hopping), Hattie Jacques (frost-faced sister), Esma Cannon (Miss Cooling), Sydney Tafler (strip club manager), Julia Arnall (Trudi Trelawney), Terence Alexander (Trevor Trelawney), Stanley Unwin (Mr Unwin), Joan Hickson (matron), Betty Marsden (Mata Hari), Fenella Fielding (Penny Panting), David Lodge (wine connoisseur), Jerry Desmond (Martin Paul), Ambrosine Phillpotts (mad woman), Nicholas Parsons (wine connoisseur), Cyril Chamberlain (railway policeman), Cyril Raymond (army officer), Eric Pohlmann (sinister man), June Jago (1st sister), Michael Ward (photographer), Douglas Ives (fanatic patient), Judith Furse (school mistress), Howard Marion Crawford (wine tasting organiser), Eric Boon (second), Tom Clegg (Massive Micky McGee), Fraser Kerr (houseman), David Williams (2nd railway policeman), Jack Taylor (emcee/railway policeman), Freddie Mills (Lefty Vincent), Joe Robinson ('Dynamite Dan' Grimsby), Norman Rossington (referee), Tony Sagar (bus conductor), David Stoll (distracted manager), Ian Curry (Leonard Beamish), Kynaston Reeves (testy old millionaire), Bernard Hunter (wine waiter), Jimmy Thompson (Delling), Molly Weir (bird woman), Fred Griffiths (taxi driver), Patrick Cargill (raffish customer at exhibition), Carole Shelley (Helen Delling), Ed Devereaux (Mr Panting), Victor Maddern (1st card player on train), Ian Wilson ([advertising man at photographer's]), Denis Shaw ([2nd card player on train]), George Street ([club receptionist]), Charles Julian ([old man in Ruby Room]), Madame Yang ([Chinese lady]), Carl Conway ([man in health club]), Nancy Roberts ([capable old lady]), Eleanor Summerfield ([Mrs Riley]), Michael Nightingale ([bystander]), Maureen Moore ([pretty probationer]), Ian Whittaker ([shop assistant]), Lucy Griffiths ([Auntie Acid])
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library (7)
In: Classic Television n1 September 1997  Pages: 25-33
Title: Carry On rememberingAuthor: BRIGHT, Jim Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Review of the thirty-one CARRY ON films.

In: Sight and Sound v3 n5 May 1993  Page: 70
Title: [Sight and Sound - v3 n5 May 1993: no known title]Article type: NoteLanguage: English
Description: Video note

In: The Hollywood Reporter v175 n16 9 May 1963  Page: 3
Title: [The Hollywood Reporter - v175 n16 9 May 1963: no known title]Language: English

In: Kine Weekly n2790 23 Mar 1961  Page: 10
Title: [Kine Weekly - n2790 23 Mar 1961: no known title]Language: English

In: Variety 12 Apr 1961
Title: [Variety - 12 Apr 1961: no known title]Language: English

In: The Daily Cinema n8435 20 Mar 1961  Page: 7
Title: [The Daily Cinema - n8435 20 Mar 1961: no known title]Language: English

In: Monthly Film Bulletin v28 n328 May 1961  Page: 63
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v28 n328 May 1961: no known title]Language: English


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