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 Bernard Bresslaw Hattie Jacques Barbara Windsor Terry Scott Peter Butterworth Dilys Laye Betty Marsden Julian Holloway Sandra Caron |
| Music by | Eric Rogers |
| Distributed by | Rank |
| Release date(s) | 1969 |
| Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
| Budget | Probably Around £100,000 - £200,000 |
| Preceded by | Carry On Up the Khyber |
| Followed by | Carry On Again Doctor |
Carry On Camping is the seventeenth Carry On film. It was released on 3 July 1969 in the UK. The film stars Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Barbara Windsor, Hattie Jacques, Joan Sims, Dilys Laye and Bernard Bresslaw.
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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 the 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-grabbing 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 young ladies on holiday from the Chayste Place finishing school. They are led by the blonde and bouncy Babs (Barbara Windsor).
The film has an infamous outdoor aerobics scene in which Babs' bikini top flies off and is caught by Dr Soaper. (The effect was achieved with a fishing rod and line attached to the garment.)
In charge of the girls is Dr Soaper (Kenneth Williams), who is fervently pursued by his lovelorn colleague, the school's matron, Miss Haggard (Hattie Jacques).
Other campers are Peter Potter (Terry Scott), who hates camping but must endure a jolly and domineering wife Harriet (Betty Marsden), who has the world's most hideous cackle, and Charlie Muggins (Charles Hawtrey), a naive first-time camper.
Much of the low-brow comedic tension derives from the anticipation of seeing actual (female) nudity, a much rarer sight in those days.
In the end, chaos ensues when a group of hippies arrive in the next field for a noisy all-night rave (a term that would later come to be used for a type of dance music, but which here refers to a live concert by "The Flowerbuds"). The campers club together to drive them away - they succeed, but the girls leave with the hippies.
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