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Carry On Loving

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5.6/10 • 43

1970-09-201h 28m

RomanceComedy

Their Mating Game is a Riot!

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.

Directors
Gerald Thomas
Editors
Alfred Roome

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  1. Sid James

    Sid James

    Sidney Bliss

  2. Kenneth Williams

    Kenneth Williams

    Percival Snooper

  3. Charles Hawtrey

    Charles Hawtrey

    James Bedsop

  4. Joan Sims

    Joan Sims

    Esme Crowfoot

  5. Hattie Jacques

    Hattie Jacques

    Sophie Plummett

  6. Terry Scott

    Terry Scott

    Terence Philpot

  7. Richard O'Callaghan

    Richard O'Callaghan

    Bertrum Muffet

  8. Bernard Bresslaw

    Bernard Bresslaw

    Gripper Burke

  9. Jacki Piper

    Jacki Piper

    Sally Martin

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John Chard

Jul 18, 2015

6/10

Ignorance actually is, in this case, Bliss! As the 1970s began, the Carry On team would continue undaunted by a new decade and a changing of the times, they instead embraced it with innuendo laden open arms - for better and worse as would prove to be the case. "Loving" finds Sid James and Hattie Jaques as a boyfriend and girlfriend couple operating under false pretences as a wedded bliss couple running a computer dating agency. The central theme is that of a number of hapless and lovelorn singletons who hope to get fixed up by the "Bliss Agency", only to find disaster after disaster, mismatch after mismatch, befalling those hoping for Cupid/Eros' arrows to strike. It's all very plot less, a sort of rerun of Carry On Regardless but with the amiable vignettes of that film replaced here with more knowingly bawdy and sexy scenarios. Terry Scott and James have fun as randy old devils, each thrust into a number of awkward situations via angry girlfriends & boyfriends, Kenny Williams gets the best part of the screenplay as a marriage guidance counsellor - and confirmed bachelor - hopelessly out of his depth when push comes to shove (ooh-err), while Jacki Piper and Imogen Hassall positively steam up the screen with underwear and push-up-bra revelations. The 70s would prove to be a troublesome decade for the series, and this does feel like the start of the slide, which is annoying since the rather cheeky and funny Carry On Up the Jungle was also released this same year. There is some value in "Loving", it has Sid and Hattie as a warring couple, which is always fun to be part of, while Williams and Scott throw themselves into their roles - just as Bernard Bresslaw steals scenes as a hulking wrestler miffed at Joan Sims' being the apple of Sid James' eye! But it feels forced and although it has some moments for fans to enjoy, the high points of Carry On Up the Kyber and the box office gold of Carry On Camping would ultimately prove to be nostalgic glances back to the series' better days. 6/10

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Original Language
English
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