Self (Archive Footage)
A profile of one of Britain's best-loved comedy actresses, who starred in 13 of the Carry On franchise's films and teamed up with Eric Sykes for popular sitcom Sykes. This documentary charts the highs and lows of Hattie's career, presenting her finest moments on screen alongside footage from her family archive. With contributions from family, friends, fans and co-stars
(Archive footage)
Documentary and celebration of the life and career of British comedian Kenneth Williams.
During a game of golf between a police inspector and a vicar the inspector cheats by having a constable move his ball into favourable positions and the vicar's into hazardous ones. when the vicar discovers this he prays for divine intervention which turns the tables.
Security Official
A pop band and their girlfriends have fun in Spain
Martha Hoggett
Dick Turpin is terrorising the countryside around Upper Dencher. Captain Fancey and Sergeant Jock Strapp plan to put an end to his escapades, and enlist the help of the Reverend Flasher. Little do they know that the priest leads a double life. Then Madame Desiree and her "Birds of Paradise" arrive in the village...
Two unforeseen problems meant that many fans consider this the weakest Christmas special. Firstly, Talbot Rothwell became ill whilst writing the script, and was unable to finish it. Dave Freeman had to be brought in to complete the script, but the two men did not work together. As a result, the script does not flow as easily as the earlier offerings. Secondly, Charles Hawtrey pulled out of the special at short notice. Having taken third billing to Sid James and Terry Scott in the previous two shows, and knowing they would both be absent, Hawtrey demanded top billing. But Carry On producer Peter Rogers refused, giving top billing to Hattie Jacques instead. Hawtrey's role had hastily to be recast, and was split between Norman Rossington and Brian Oulton, both of whom had played cameo roles in several Carry On films. The special featured a collection of historical sketches, loosely linked around an 18th-century banquet.
Floella
A group of holidaymakers head for the Spanish resort of Elsbels for a 4-day visit. When they get there, they find the Hotel still hasn't been finished being built, and the weather is awful. And there is something strange about the staff—they all look very similar. To top it all off, the weather seems to be having an adverse affect on the Hotel's foundations.
Matron
A gang of thieves plan to make their fortune by stealing a shipment of contraceptive pills from Finisham maternity hospital. They assume disguises and infiltrate the hospital, but everything doesn't go according to plan. The hypochondriac consultant Sir Bernard Cutting, Matron and the doctors and nurses at Finisham have a habit of getting in the way.
Beattie Plummer
This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat; eventually everyone has to get fed up with him. This is also the ideal opportunity for lots of lavatorial jokes...
Three irresponsible teenagers borrow a yacht belonging to the local Sea Scouts and run out of fuel. They hoist the sail in an endeavour to stop the boat drifting on to the notoriously dangerous Bradda Head, but find themselves in even greater trouble in the shape of a sea-mine.
Sophie Plummett
The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of Much-Snoggin-in-the-Green. Its owner, Sidney Bliss, has enough complications in his own love life, but still produces a pamphlet called "The Wit to Woo". The strange collection of hopefuls lead to some outlandish matches, and jealousies are bound to lead to trouble
Nurse Rhubarb
A Police Inspector and a vicar play a round of golf. The Inspector has a Constable help him to cheat, while the vicar has other ideas...
Elizabeth Barrett / Nun / Bemused Passer-By
Ebenezer Scrooge is a misery on Christmas, not allowing people money or doing anything to share Christmas cheer around his employees or acquaintances. While Scrooge is visited by three ghosts we see how his penny pinching has affected those around him.
Ginger Horton
Сэр Гай Гранд, эксцентричный миллиардер, вместе со своим недавно усыновленным наследником, а ранее бездомным, Янгменом, любит развлекаться, разыгрывая людей. Гранд не против раздавать большие суммы денег различным людям, подкупать их, чтобы удовлетворять свои прихоти или шокировать их. Цель его розыгрышей - показать своему наследнику, что «каждый имеет свою цену» - все просто зависит от суммы, которую вы готовы заплатить. Начиная с довольно мелких обманов, они переходят к все более сложным трюкам с участием более высоких социальных слоев и более широкой аудитории. Как показывает их беседа, Гранд рассматривает свои сюжеты как «образовательные».
Matron
Dr. Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he flies back to England to fame and fortune. But others want to cash in on his good fortunes, and some just want him brought down a peg or two.
Miss Haggard
Sid and Bernie keep having their amorous intentions snubbed by their girlfriends Joan and Anthea, so when they decide to take them on a holiday to Paradise Camp, they think they're off to a nudist colony—but they couldn't be more wrong, and meet up with the weirdest bunch of campers you can imagine.
Lady Journalist
Для участия в международном автопробеге гонщики съезжаются на север Шотландии, в Стокгольм, Афины, Рагузу и Лиссабон. Их задача — добраться до города Шамбери, а оттуда проделать путь до Монте-Карло и закончить автопробег гонкой по его улицам. Среди участников — Катберт Уэйр-Армитедж, узнавший после гибели своего отца, что ему досталась только половина акций унаследованного автомобильного завода. Вторую же половину отец проиграл в карты американцу Честеру Скофилду. Чтобы вернуть акции, Уэйр-Армитедж предлагает Скофилду участвовать в автопробеге до Монте-Карло на разрабатываемых каждым автомобилях. Победитель получит все. В то же время из тюрьмы бежит Вилли Шикель — самый быстрый шофер преступного мира. Ему устраивают побег, чтобы он доставил в Монте-Карло драгоценности, спрятанные в одной из автопокрышек…
Mabel
Two crooks are hired to rob an eccentric old lady's estate, but once they get to know her, they can't bring themselves to do it.
Matron
Популярный Доктор Килмор уволен, после того как был обнаружен в компрометирующем положении на крыше дома медсестёр. Пациенты не хотят потерять его, но доктор Тинкл и главная медсестра непреклонны.
Woman with Rose
A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.
Trinity Martinez
Unsuccessful singing bullfighter Juan arrives in Barcelona to try his luck in a big town. He finally persuades a devious local impresario to book him, but only on the condition that Juan first manages to spend an evening with Olimpia, a "shrewd merciless beauty" who seems effortlessly to collect apartments and Maserati sports cars while leaving a trail of broken hearts behind her. Juan approaches the challenge by pretending to her he is an emissary for a rich count. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Peggy Hawkins
Speedee Taxis is a great success, which means its workaholic owner Charlie starts neglecting Peggy, his wife. Suddenly a fleet of rival taxis appears from nowhere and start pinching all the fares. The rivals are Glamcabs, and they have a secret weapon. All their drivers are very attractive women! Who's behind Glamcabs? It's open warfare and only one fleet can survive!
Dolly The Fortune Teller
Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife, who gets him to perform at the 60th Anniversary celebrations of the town in front of all the local dignitaries, his hatred of snobbery comes to a hilarious head.
Josephine Gudgeon
After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.
Miss Richards
When Francis and Douglas Oberon learn that their late grandmother has bequeathed the family fortune to distant cousin Toni, they immediately start plotting to get their hands on the money. They dream up a plot whereby they cannot fail to acquire a comfortable future; the lovely Toni must either be murdered, or married...
Sister
It's non stop romps as the Carry On team deliver the goods in one of the rudest and funniest of the Carry On films. The cast are all on top form as a bunch of no-hopers who join an agency in the search for a job. The anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimps tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting and demolishing a house.
Agatha Potter
When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the ship rally round, when the Admiral needs the plans to show to a visiting scientist.
Nanette Parry
Группа неудачников под руководством стареющего майора Альберта Рейна решает ограбить меховой салон. И пока участники преступления находят в этих приключениях новый смысл жизни, невольной участницей событий оказывается экономка хозяйки квартиры, недавно вернувшаяся из мест заключения.
1st Instructress
Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably rotten cad Raymond Delauney who has set his cap at April, new love of Palfrey's life. In desperation Henry enrolls at the College of Lifemanship to learn how to best such bounders and win the girl.
Sergeant Laura Moon
With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. With help from Special Constable Gorse, they manage to totally wreck the operations of the police force and let plenty of criminals get away, even before they arrive at the station. They all have to prove themselves or else they'll be out of a job and Sergeant Wilkins will be transferred. Sub-plots include romances between Wilkins and Moon, Constable and Passworthy.
Ada
The movie takes place during WWII. A dashing British RAF Officer is earmarked for a secret mission behind enemy lines in occupied France, but wishing to distract the enemy, enlists a person to double for him and thereby draw attention to North Africa . An unlikely airman is found and tutored in the ways of an English officer.
Grace Short
Prepare for Six of the Best as the Carry On team cause chaos in the school yard. When a well-loved headmaster decides to retire, his scheming pupils have other ideas. The cunning boys unleash a campaign of practical jokes, armed with gin, itching power and bombs!
woman in car
На довыборах в парламент телевизионная знаменитость Боб Уилкот от консерваторов соперничает со Стеллой Стокер от социалистов. Что будет, если политические конкуренты влюбятся? Агенты противоборствующих партий вступают в сговор чтобы предотвратить электоральную катастрофу.
Matron
В госпитале «Приют» одна из мужских палат причиняет больше проблем, чем весь остальной госпиталь. Огромная главная медсестра наводит ужас на всех пациентов, и только Рекитт противостоит ей. Среди прочих персонажей: майор, который является для всех постоянной неприятностью, неуклюжая медсестра, влюбленные Тед Йорк и медсестра Дентон, и Белл, который требует срочно сделать ему операцию. Однажды, после пьянки, мужчины из этой палаты решают помочь Беллу…
Dymphna Dobson
Известный певец теряет голос перед важным мероприятием. Услышав пение мистера Питкина, тенор решает записать его голос на диктофон и выдать его музыкальное произведение за свое. Но не так просто заставить мистера Питкина спеть...
Fortune Teller
An Inshore Minesweeping Unit has been forgotten by the Navy after World War II on the peaceful island of Boonsley and they have adapted to their circumstances. The men still wear uniforms and the proper reports are filed, although the reports of hundreds of mines are exaggerated. The captain spends his time fishing, the Number One is busy romancing the only Wren on the island and The Chief Boatswain runs a wine smuggling business. Unfortunately the Navy start to get suspicious.
Gretchen
Землекоп Питкин имел бронь, так как трудился на дорожных работах, но вышло так, что был заброшен с парашютом в тыл врага. Далее совершенно случайно он оказался двойником немецкого генерала. Можно себе представить, сколько смешных приключений и ситуаций произошло с мистером Питкиным в генеральской форме, когда он поехал инспектировать вражеские позиции
Captain Clark
Фильм об армейской жизни, в которой очень полно раскрыта тема доброго обращения с солдатами.
Woman in Sports Car with Dog (uncredited)
A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and then decides to elope.
Party Guest
The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them. And the youngest daughter, Gwen, has tricked an American singer, Bobby Denver, into visiting them on the pretext that it is the home of a noted British film magnate. When all the women in the household --- including the maid --- fall for the singer's charms, Bentley consults a crackpot psychiatrist, Dr. Schneider, who almost succeeds in ousting, not the singer, but Bentley's wife, with his advice to Bentley to make her jealous by living it up with Pearl, a showgirl recruited for the purpose.
Chambermaid (uncredited)
Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pressure of the fans who won't leave him alone, he relocates to a remote Italian village where unanticipated trouble arises when unwittingly he becomes the prize for an international lottery.
Rakiki
A maritime farce set in the South Seas. A strong supporting cast includes Brian Rix, Anthony Newley & Harry Fowler.
Mrs. Patch
Rich Sadie Patch is marooned on a desert island after an emergency on her cruise-ship. With her are Irish stoker Pat, prickly young Jimmy Carrol, and bald and bookish Professor Gibble. All fancy their chances.
People quietly or campily pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting all leisure activities.
Miss Quibble
A woman falls in love with a ghost on All Hallows Eve.
Mrs. Nupkins
Британская комедия, основанная на классическом произведении Чарльза Диккенса. «Посмертные записки Пиквикского клуба» — первый роман писателя, рассказывающий о клубе чудаков, путешествующих по Англии и наблюдающих «человеческую природу». Основатель клуба и главный герой романа — Сэмюэл Пиквик, внешне наивный и смешной, но обладающий истинной человечностью.
On a rural estate, the ghost of a long-dead ancestor takes a dislike to the owner's mother-in-law, and decides to make things tough for her.
Mrs Jenks
The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Riley" in this hilarious comedy adventure. The Vampire plans to control the world with the help of his robot, which accidentally gets shipped to Mother Riley. Through radar control, he contacts the robot and orders it to come to him, bringing along Mother Riley! But his life is turned upside down when he holds this most meddling of mothers captive.
Mrs. Fezziwig
Великолепная экранизация рождественской истории Чарльза Диккенса. Скряга Эбенезер Скрудж в рождественскую ночь встречается с духами рождества, и понимает что живет не правильно. Скрудж, старый ненавистник Рождества, меняет свое отношение к светлому празднику после знакомства с духами. Эту картину по роману Диккенса (не первую и далеко не последнюю) считают не только лучшим рождественским фильмом, но и лучшей экранизацией английского классика...
Singer
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.
Alice
The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.
Barmaid (uncredited)
"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq, a resourceful safecracker who always manages to elude arrest. Eric Portman is cast as police-chief Maubert, who will not rest until Ledocq is behind bars. And Nadia Gray is Madeleine, the woman beloved by both Ledocq and Maubert. Just as Maubert has managed to capture his man, Ledocq is released at the behest of the government, who wants him to steal secrets from the German embassy revealing the whereabouts of the Kaiser's secret agents. And just how does Madeleine figure into all of this? Spider and the Fly is a diverting precursor to the 1960s TV series It Takes a Thief." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Daisy Delaware
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
Singer at 'Three Cripples'
Молодая беременная женщина с трудом добирается сквозь бурю до приходского работного дома, расположенного где-то в английской провинции. Здесь она дает жизнь ребенку и испускает дух. Мальчик, названный Оливером Твистом, воспитывается в работном доме, страдая от недоедания и тяжелой работы. В девятилетнем возрасте его отправляют в качестве подмастерья к местному гробовщику...
Экранизация произведения Чарльза Диккенса.
Mrs Kenwick
Англия, XIX век. Когда отец Николаса Никльби умирает и оставляет свою семью без средств к существованию, его дядя, жадный ростовщик Ральф Никльби, находит племяннику работу в отталкивающей школе в Йоркшире. Николас сбегает оттуда, взяв с собой одного гонимого мальчика по имени Смайк, и они присоединяются к актерской труппе. Потом Николасу пришлось защищать Смайка, сестру Кэйт от попыток дяди извлечь выгоду, и затем его возлюбленную Меделайн Брэй, чей отец погряз в долгах.
In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
