Carry on at Your Convenience

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Carry on at Your Convenience

CARRY ON AT YOUR CONVENIENCE is about industrial disputes at a toilet- making factory. This being a Carry On film you also get sub-plots about a budgie that can pick winning horses and a works outing that includes the shooting up of a rifle range and copious consumption of alcohol. The trademark seaside postcard attitude to sex is on display with trousers (and skirts) being ripped off, much suggestive wordplay, strip poker, bunny girls and some friendly minded sexual harassment by both sexes. The narrative, such as it is, meanders around a factory making toilets (proprietor: W.C. Boggs) which is threatened with closure because of the copious strikes. Most of the plot is taken up with the pursuit of various women by various men (and vice versa) with varying degrees of success. There is even a BRIEF ENCOUNTER-esque ending for Sid James. It's all harmless fluff, gently humorous and, thirty years on, not without historical interest.

Well the team have done it again haven't they! What ever possessed them to make a comedy film based around lavatories i'll never know but who cares? Carry On at your Convienience is packed full of fantastically funny gags, there's the usual cast all together causing mischief down in Brighton on the annual works outing: Sid James as foreman Sid Plummer, Hattie Jacques his wife Beattie Plummer, Kenneth Williams as W.C. Boggs, owner of the factory, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw Charles Hawtreyetc. They are joined by newcomers to the series: Richard O Callaghan, who plays Bogg's Son Mr Lewis, Jacki Piper who played Sid and Hattie's daughter Myrtle and of course leader of the strikes at W.C. Boggs & Sons, Kenneth Cope who plays Vic Spanner, they are supported by wonderful comedy actors such as: Renee Houston, Margaret Nolan etc. A wonderful carry On, ready for the next one, hopefully it will be just as funny so CARRY ON!*

Carry on at your Convenience is probably my favourite Carry On. Set in a toilet factory it follows the workers and management through a number of strikes. Most of the regulars appear and all excel. Sid James leads the way but all the cast do a great job with a funny script. Welcome glamour is provided by the gorgeous Jacki Piper. This is a typical Carry On and it's loaded with bucket loads of double entendres. There are however plenty of funny moments from a number of good comedic situations. Whilst it may not appeal to the audiences of today this is an underrated comedy. I'm surprised that it is only rated 5.9 on here (lower than a lot of the other Carry On's). If you only watch one Carry On film, watch this one.

This is my favourite film of the Carry On series of movies. I lost count after i had watched it 50 times, it has all the Carry on humour and all in the right places.Sid James is Excellent as the bawdy works foreman, and Kenneth Cope as the Union representative is a pleasure to behold. Even without the busty talents of Barbara Windsor, this movie has plenty to titilate any fan of good tongue in cheek humour.

I have seen this film so many times now, usually just because it is on British television so much, but even so, it is SO funny. (Enough "so"s for you??) As well as providing a dense and long strand (oo-er!!) of toilet jokes, it also has a certain sociological insight into the strike riddled decadence of 1970s Britain with a classic portrayal of bolshy union official by an actor who did not appear in many (or any?) other Carry On roles. The annual works trip to the sea-side is excellent too, just to see those places before they went into terminal decline. You need a certain sense of humour and you need to be in the mood, but if you are... great fun!

This is the Carry On film which took longest to make back its money. It's not difficult to see why as it is so disparaging towards the unions and the typical Carry On fan in the early 70s was working class. If you are going to insult your target audience then don't be surprised to find they don't go to see your film. Having said that the basic storyline has plenty of opportunities for Talbot Rothwell's seaside postcard humour especially as they go on a works outing to Brighton. One of the Carry On films' best points is the way they added those little details so you get a toilet manufacturer called WC Boggs, the foreman's name sounds like plumber, his daughter's name is Myrtle which is a plant that grows in bogs. If I could only buy a budgie like Sid Plummer's I'd be laughing even more.

Set in a toilet making factory, hence the title, this is a fun romp. Given the setting, you just know there will be in jokes, double entendres and the like. Sid James, Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtry, amongst others, are at their madcap best here. The story never flags, even though the cast is pretty large. You even have richness from the peripheral characters here, they add to the fun. One of the film's main assets is the fresh faced beauty Jacki Piper, who plays Myrtle Plummer (I know, the last name is obvious, but that's okay). Of the Carry On films I've watched (about 8), this is my favorite thus far. It holds your interest and you can't help but laugh. It is definitely worth your time, in a time honored British comedy vein.