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Carry On Girls

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5.7/10 • 58

1973-11-091h 28m

Comedy

When it comes to Beauty Queens - It's 'Carry On' and Bust!

Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidable Councillor Prodworthy, head of the local women's liberation movement, has other ideas. It's open warfare as the women's lib attempt to sabotage the contest.

Directors
Gerald Thomas
Writters
Talbot Rothwell
Editors
Talbot Rothwell, Alfred Roome

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Sid James

    Sid James

    Sidney Fiddler

  2. Barbara Windsor

    Barbara Windsor

    Hope Springs

  3. Joan Sims

    Joan Sims

    Connie Philpotts

  4. Kenneth Connor

    Kenneth Connor

    Mayor Frederick Bumble

  5. Bernard Bresslaw

    Bernard Bresslaw

    Peter Potter

  6. June Whitfield

    June Whitfield

    Augusta Prodworthy

  7. Peter Butterworth

    Peter Butterworth

    Admiral

  8. Jack Douglas

    Jack Douglas

    William

  9. Patsy Rowlands

    Patsy Rowlands

    Mildred Bumble

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John Chard

Feb 10, 2014

5/10

The team have feminists in their sights. The seaside resort of Fircombe is struggling to attract the tourists, so Sid Fiddler (Sid James) proposes a beauty contest to draw some much needed punters into the town. Getting the inept Mayor (Kenneth Connor) to agree was easy enough, but opposition comes in the form of Augusta Prodworthy (June Whitfield) and her league of feminists. Lurid, smutty and just about average in the pantheon of the Carry On series. No Kenneth Williams for this one, but a point of interest is that Robin Askwith appears for the only time. Askwith ironically would become the star of the "Confessions" series of film's which would take the sex comedy to a whole new plateau from 1974 onwards. Carry On Girls has its moments, Bernie Bresslaw in drag brings quite a few gags, while Peter Butterworth as a lecherous old man steals the film. Also pleasing for the franchise faithful is that the Sid James and Barbara Windsor (Hope Springs) pairing gets a nice arc befitting the relationship the pair built up during the series. Beauty contests and feminist whiles are given the treatment in Talbot Rothwell's screenplay, and the dying seaside town in need of a boost has a certain warmth to it (filmed on location in Brighton on England's South Coast). But really it's mild Carry On fare outside of the flesh and double entendres that are laced in humorous stereotypical cheapness. 5/10

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
hotelbeauty contestsexual humorcarry onseaside town