Carry On Camping
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 "Carry On Camping" (DVD) |
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| Directed by | Gerald Thomas |
| Produced by | Peter Rogers |
| Written by | Talbot Rothwell |
| Starring | Sid James Kenneth Williams Joan Sims Charles Hawtrey Barbara Windsor Terry Scott |
| Music by | Eric Rogers |
| Distributed by | Rank |
| Release date(s) | 1969 |
| Running time | 88 minutes |
| Preceded by | Carry On up the Khyber |
| Followed by | Carry On Again Doctor |
Carry On Camping is the seventeenth Carry On film, and one of the most famous. It was produced in late 1968 and released on 3 July 1969 in the UK. The film stars Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor and Bernard Bresslaw.
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[edit] Plot Summary
Sid Boggle (Sid James) and his friend Bernie Lugg (Bernard Bresslaw), partners in a plumbing business, take their girlfriends, the prudish Joan (Joan Sims) and meek Anthea (Dilys Laye), to the cinema to watch a film Paradise, about a nudist camp. Sid then gets the idea that the two couples should take a holiday in the camp featured in the film - reasoning that in such an environment their heretofore chaste girlfriends will relax their strict moral standards - a plan that he and Bernie bravely attempt to keep secret from the girls.
They travel to the campsite named Paradise, but after paying the fees, Sid realises it is not the camp of the film but a standard family camp site. Furthermore, it turns out not to be a paradise at all but little more than a damp field in the depths of the country. It has no view and no luxuries - and the only facilities are a basic ablutions block. The site is run by a money-grubbing farmer named Fiddler (Peter Butterworth). They reluctantly agree to stay after Fiddler refuses a refund and the girls approve of the camping ground. The boys are further disappointed when the girls refuse to share a tent with them.
Sid and Bernie soon set their sights on a bunch of naughty schoolgirls (all of whom are somewhat obviously too old for school!) on holiday from the Chayste Place boarding school, led by the blonde and bouncy Babs (Barbara Windsor).
In charge of the schoolgirls is Dr Soaper (Kenneth Williams), who is fervently pursued by his lovelorn colleague, the school's Matron, Miss Haggerd (Hattie Jacques).
Others present at the campsite are Peter Potter (Terry Scott), who hates camping but must endure a jolly and domineering wife Harriet (Betty Marsden), who probably has the world's most annoying laugh, and Charlie Muggins (Charles Hawtrey), a naive first-time camper and unwelcome lodger who Harriet invites into their tent when he gets caught in the rain.
Chaos ensues when a group of hippies arrive in the next field for a noisy all-night rave. The campers club together to drive them away.
[edit] Trivia:
- The Republic of Ireland rejected the film's distribution in 1969. Malta rated it .
- It was top at the UK box office in 1968/1969.
- In Hispanic areas, it was called I want a girlfriend!
- The film has an infamous outdoor aerobics scene in which the elastic on Babs' bikini top snaps off, and is caught by Dr Soaper. The effect was actually achieved by use of a fishing rod attached to the garment.
- The film was actually shot in the depths of winter, in several scenes you can see where the mud was painted green to look like grass and on one day of shooting, snow has to be covered up too!
- It was shot on location at Pinewood studios and in Black Park near by, the house owned by the Potters from which they left on their tandem is actually in the housing estate directly across from the main studio gates
[edit] Classic Quotes
Joan's Mum: Joan may think you're a gentleman but personally I've got sore misgivings.
Sid Boggle: You ought to put some talcum powder on them!
[edit] Filming locations
Interiors - Stage A at Pinewood Studios, Bucks, England.
Exteriors - Country farms - (Dromenagh and Sauls Farms Fulmer, Bucks and Glebe Farm, Northolt, Middx.)
Country lane - (Seven Hills Way & Black Park Road, Fulmer ,Bucks)
Cinema exterior - (The Odeon, Packhorse Road, Gerrards Cross, Bucks.)
Chayste Finishing School - (Heatherden Hall, Bucks)
Coach journey scenes - (A412 Uxbridge Road, Denham Road, Iver, Bucks.)
Camp site - (The Orchard, Pinewood backlot.)
Camping equipment shop - (Currently Empty. 9-13 The High Street, Maidenhead, Berks.)
[edit] Filming dates
October and November 1968.
[edit] External links
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