Are You Being Served? (Original title)
Dates: 1977 (Copyright), 25 August 1977 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Bob Kellett
Synopsis: Comedy. The staff of the Grace Bros. department store go on holiday for two weeks to the Costa Plonka in Spain whilst the store is closed for decoration. When they arrive at the hotel, the manager, Carlos Bernardo, tells them that their rooms will not be ready until the next day. They agree to be put up for the night in 'penthouses', but this turns out to be a misunderstanding and they are shown to a series of 'tent houses', or tents on the beach. Over dinner, the delivery of various secret, written romantic notes gets mixed up and so various people think they are being propositioned by others who have not in fact written the messages. That night, the confusion is compounded when people go to other people's tents for a supposed romantic liaison, only to find that they are not expected or that, for whatever reason, someone else is in the tent. Involved in these mix-ups are Bernardo's would-be revolutionary friend César Rodríguez, who longs for Mrs Slocombe (having seen her with a ravishing young body in what he does not realise is a joke photo taken at Blackpool), and hotel maid Conchita, hoping to hide in a tent as she fears Bernardo's nocturnal advances. The next morning, as Rodríguez's army have been unable to cross the border, he and his small cohort come under fire at the hotel and defiantly fight back. This violence interrupts the Grace Bros. workers' breakfast, who duly have to hide from the line of fire and devise a way to signal for help, which they manage to do using the advertising balloon over the hotel. A tank arrives, which turns out to be driven by 'Young' Mr Grace, the elderly owner of the shop, who has had to use this means of transport to travel from the airport.
Genre: Comedy
Subjects: Holidays, Shop assistants, Hotels, Package holidays
Releases
Date: 1977Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 94 mins Length: 8484 FeetDialogue (original): English
Dates: 1977 (Copyright), 25 August 1977 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Bob Kellett
Synopsis: Comedy. The staff of the Grace Bros. department store go on holiday for two weeks to the Costa Plonka in Spain whilst the store is closed for decoration. When they arrive at the hotel, the manager, Carlos Bernardo, tells them that their rooms will not be ready until the next day. They agree to be put up for the night in 'penthouses', but this turns out to be a misunderstanding and they are shown to a series of 'tent houses', or tents on the beach. Over dinner, the delivery of various secret, written romantic notes gets mixed up and so various people think they are being propositioned by others who have not in fact written the messages. That night, the confusion is compounded when people go to other people's tents for a supposed romantic liaison, only to find that they are not expected or that, for whatever reason, someone else is in the tent. Involved in these mix-ups are Bernardo's would-be revolutionary friend César Rodríguez, who longs for Mrs Slocombe (having seen her with a ravishing young body in what he does not realise is a joke photo taken at Blackpool), and hotel maid Conchita, hoping to hide in a tent as she fears Bernardo's nocturnal advances. The next morning, as Rodríguez's army have been unable to cross the border, he and his small cohort come under fire at the hotel and defiantly fight back. This violence interrupts the Grace Bros. workers' breakfast, who duly have to hide from the line of fire and devise a way to signal for help, which they manage to do using the advertising balloon over the hotel. A tank arrives, which turns out to be driven by 'Young' Mr Grace, the elderly owner of the shop, who has had to use this means of transport to travel from the airport.
Genre: Comedy
Subjects: Holidays, Shop assistants, Hotels, Package holidays
Releases
Date: 1977Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 94 mins Length: 8484 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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©: Anglo-EMI Productions Ltd., Presents: Nat Cohen, [Presented] For: EMI Film Distributors Ltd, Executive Producer: David Croft, Jeremy Lloyd, Produced by: Andrew Mitchell, Production Associate: Richard Du Vivier, Production Manager: John Wilcox, Assistant Director: Vincent Winter, Continuity: June Randall, Casting Director: Weston Drury Jnr, Written by: Jeremy Lloyd, David Croft, Based on the BBC television series: BBC Television, Director of Photography: Jack Atcheler, Camera Operator: Wally Byatt, Editor: Al Gell, Art Director: Bob Jones, Assistant Art Director: John Lageu, Set Decorator: Harry Cordwell, Wardrobe Supervisor: Ivy Baker, Make-up: Robin Grantham, Hairdressing: Joan Carpenter, Sound Recordist: Bruce White, Re-recording Mixer: Bill Rowe, Dubbing Editor: Ian Fuller, Filmed with Panavision equipment: Panavision, Made at: E.M.I. Studios
Cast
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John Inman (Mr Humphries), Mollie Sugden (Mrs Slocombe), Frank Thornton (Captain Steven Peacock), Trevor Bannister (Mr Lucas), Wendy Richard (Shirley Brahms), Arthur Brough (Ernest Grainger), Nicholas Smith (Cuthbert Rumbold), Harold Bennett ('Young' Mr Grace), Arthur English (Harman, the caretaker), Karan David (Conchita, the maid), Glyn Houston (César Rodríguez), Andrew Sachs (Don Carlos Bernardo, hotel manager), Sheila Steafel (hat customer), John G. Heller (German holidaymaker), Monica Grey (staff nurse), Jennifer Granville (air hostess), Derek Griffiths (Arab), Nadim Sawalha (Arab's interpreter), Penny Irving (Miss Nicholson, Mr Grace's secretary), Andrew Mann (pilot), Hugo De Vernier (German holidaymaker), Marianne Broome, Nicki Howorth, Rikki Howard (gorgeous girl)