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The next job that Francis undertakes is in the field of photography as a model. Obviously very chuffed that he has been chosen, he is crestfallen when he discovers that the job is an advertisement for a bee-keepers helmet. Sam Twist is equally put out when attempts to quit smoking. |
The next job that Francis undertakes is in the field of photography as a model. Obviously very chuffed that he has been chosen, he is crestfallen when he discovers that the job is an advertisement for a bee-keepers helmet. Sam Twist is equally put out when attempts to quit smoking. |
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Francis' next job is between a bickering couple. The husband can't understand his wife, who |
Francis' next job is between a bickering couple. The husband can't understand his wife, who continually berates him in her native German. Thanks to Francis getting a bit emotionally involved, the wife starts speaking English and the couple make up. |
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Lefty Vincent, a boxing friend of Bert pops into the office. He requires four helping hands to act as seconds for his fighter Dynamite Dan. When they get to the venue, Dan is obviously terrified by his opponent, Mickey McGee so pretends that Gabriel has sprained his finger. The fight is off, but Gabriel is incensed by McGee that he takes him on in the ring, and wins! |
Lefty Vincent, a boxing friend of Bert pops into the office. He requires four helping hands to act as seconds for his fighter Dynamite Dan. When they get to the venue, Dan is obviously terrified by his opponent, Mickey McGee so pretends that Gabriel has sprained his finger. The fight is off, but Gabriel is incensed by McGee that he takes him on in the ring, and wins! |
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| Carry on Regardless | |
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 Carry On Regardless (DVD) | |
| Directed by | Gerald Thomas |
| Written by | Norman Hudis |
| Produced by | Peter Rogers |
| Starring | Sid James Kenneth Williams Kenneth Connor Charles Hawtrey Joan Sims |
| Cinematography | Alan Hume |
| Music by | Edmund Crispin |
| Distributed by | Anglo-Amalgamated |
Release date | 1 April 1961 |
Running time | 90 min. |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Language | English Gobbledygook Swedish |
Carry on Regardless was the fifth in the series of Carry On films to be made. It was released in 1961, and marked Liz Fraser's first appearance in the series.
Plot summary
Down at the local labour exchange, everyone is moaning about the lack of decent jobs, unaware that nearby Bert Handy and his secretary Miss Cooling are attempting to fill vacancies at a new enterprise called Helping Hands. However this all changes when the disgruntled job seeks stumble across a job advert in the local paper. They're very quick to leg it round to the new business, and are even quicker to introduce themselves. Sam Twist, Francis Courtenay, Delia King, Gabriel Dimple, Lily Duveen, Mike Weston and Montgomery Infield-Hopping.
Bert decides to hire them all, and at first business is slow. The only customer so far is a man who speaks gobbledygook, and since Francis isn't present (he can speak 16 languages) nobody can understand him, and he goes on his way.
Thankfully, within a few days business soon picks up. Delia has her initial assignment to try on a complete women's wardrobe for a gentleman who is planning a surprise for his wife. However things get complicated when the mans wife arrives home unexpectedly.
Meanwhile Sam Twist is sent to a baby-sitting job, only to find that there isn't a baby to be sitted! Instead there is a woman who needs to make her husband jealous. Needless to say when he gets home he is indeed jealous as they both find out.
The next day, Francis is assigned to take a pet for a walk, due to his owner having the flu. It's only when he gets to the woman's house that he finds out it's a chimpanzee. Always being one to see a job through to its bitter end, he takes the chimp for a walk. However he soon discovers that people who work in the transport industry have an aversion to apes. They eventually end up at a chimps tea party enjoying a nice afternoon tea.
Next up is Lily Duveen, who has been employed to attend a wine tasting evening to collect invitation cards from the attendees. After she has performed this task, she's invited to sample some of the wines herself. Unfortunately, she has rather too much and makes a bit of a spectacle of herself.
Later a man from Amalgamated Scrap-Iron arrives in the Helping Hands office. He's obviously a busy man as he requests that someone take his place in the queue at the hospital outpatients department at the hospital. Bert says that he will immediately get someone on the case, but the chap is rather bullish, and insists that the top man undergoes the job himself. So inevitably, Bert ends up queuing at the hospital, and is mistaken for Sir Theodore who is an eminent diagnostician. He is then taken on a guided tour of the hospital, watch out nurses!
The next job that Francis undertakes is in the field of photography as a model. Obviously very chuffed that he has been chosen, he is crestfallen when he discovers that the job is an advertisement for a bee-keepers helmet. Sam Twist is equally put out when attempts to quit smoking.
Francis' next job is between a bickering couple. The husband can't understand his wife, who continually berates him in her native German. Thanks to Francis getting a bit emotionally involved, the wife starts speaking English and the couple make up.
Lefty Vincent, a boxing friend of Bert pops into the office. He requires four helping hands to act as seconds for his fighter Dynamite Dan. When they get to the venue, Dan is obviously terrified by his opponent, Mickey McGee so pretends that Gabriel has sprained his finger. The fight is off, but Gabriel is incensed by McGee that he takes him on in the ring, and wins!
Sam is really chuffed over his next job. He thinks he's on a top secret spying mission, but due to a mix up all that was really required of him was to make up a game of bridge. He ends up at the Forth Bridge in Scotland.
When Sam gets back, he learns that the whole of Helping Hands have been engaged to demonstrate exhibits at the Ideal House exhibition. Needless to say all of the demonstrations end in calamity. Rather like Sam's next job at an exclusive men's club. No matter how hard he tries, he just can't keep silent. A strict rule of the establishment.
Miss Cooling decides on a new filing system, for more streamlined operation of the organisation. Cards for the helping hands are put in cubby holes for each of them. Disaster strikes when the cleaner knocks the box down. She picks it up and puts it back, with the cards all mixed up. Everyone gets someone else's assignment, with misunderstandings all round.
Later, the gobbledygook man turns up at the offices. However this time Francis is there to translate. Therefore it translates that he is their landlord, and has been trying to inform Bert that he will have to vacate the premises, because he's had a better offer. However, due to a show of unity by all the staff, he agrees that they can stay on the provision that they do something for him. His main interest is property development and he needs a house cleared and cleaned. Unfortunately, the team end up demolishing it! Thankfully it turns out that the house needs demolishing for a block of flats. After hearing this news, what else can the team do, but carry on regardless!
Cast
- Sid 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
- Hattie Jacques - Sister
- Joan Hickson - Matron
- Stanley Unwin - Landlord
- Terence Longdon - Montgomery Infield-Hopping
- Esma Cannon - Miss Cooling
- Sydney Tafler - Strip Club Manager
- Terence Alexander - Trevor Trelawney
- Betty Marsden - Mata Hari
- Fenella Fielding - Penny Panting
- David Lodge - Connoisseur
- Nicholas Parsons - Wolf
- Jerry Desmonde - Martin Paul
- Cyril Raymond - Army Officer
- Eric Pohlmann - Sinister Man
Business data
Filming Dates - 28 November 1960 - 17 January 1961