Carry On Dick was the 26th Carry On film. It was released in 1974 and marks the end of an era for the series featuring the last appearances of Sid James, Hattie Jacques and Barbara Windsor and also the final script to be written by Talbot Rothwell. The story is based on the Dick Turpin legend and features Turpin (James) as an antihero, attempting to evade capture by the authorities. Gerald Thomas (1920 - 1993) was a British film director. ... Peter Rogers (born 20 February 1914 in Rochester, Kent) is a British film producer. ... Talbot Nelson Conn Rothwell OBE (born November 12, 1916, died February 28, 1981) was born in Bromley, Kent, he had a variety of jobs during his early life; Town clerk, Police officer and Pilot. ... Sid James Sid James (8 May 1913–26 April 1976) was a film and television actor. ... Barbara Windsor MBE (born Barbara-Ann Deeks on August 6, 1937, in Shoreditch, London) is a British actress. ... Kenneth Williams Kenneth Charles Williams (22 February 1926 – 15 April 1988) was an English comic actor, star of twenty six films and notable radio comedies with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne, as well as a witty raconteur on a wide range of subjects. ... Josephine Edwina Jacques (7 February 1922 – 6 October 1980), better known by the stage name Hattie Jacques, (pronounced Jakes) was a British comedy actress born in Sandgate, Kent. ... Bernard Bresslaw (February 25, 1934 - June 11, 1993) was an English actor who was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. ... Eric Rogers (born: 25th September 1921, Died: 8th April 1981) was a British conductor and composer. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... // Plot outline Carry On Girls is the twenty-fifth Carry On film, released in Britain in 1973 and notable for the absence of both Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtrey for the first time - Williams was appearing in a West End play, My Fat Friend, Hawtrey had been sacked from the... The Carry On films were a long-running series of British popular low_budget comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rodgers. ... The Carry On films were a long-running series of British popular low-budget comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers. ... Sid James Sid James (8 May 1913–26 April 1976) was a film and television actor. ... Josephine Edwina Jacques (7 February 1922 – 6 October 1980), better known by the stage name Hattie Jacques, (pronounced Jakes) was a British comedy actress born in Sandgate, Kent. ... Barbara Windsor MBE (born Barbara-Ann Deeks on August 6, 1937, in Shoreditch, London) is a British actress. ... Talbot Nelson Conn Rothwell OBE (born November 12, 1916, died February 28, 1981) was born in Bromley, Kent, he had a variety of jobs during his early life; Town clerk, Police officer and Pilot. ... A 19th century illustration of Dick Turpin Richard (Dick) Turpin (September 21, 1706 – April 7, 1739) is a legendary English bandit and the most famous historical highwayman. ... In literature and film, an anti-hero is a central or supporting character that has some of the personality flaws and ultimate fortune traditionally assigned to villains but nonetheless also have enough heroic qualities or intentions to gain the sympathy of readers or viewers. ...

Plot Summary

The film, set around 1750, depicts an England that is being over-run by highwaymen, such as the legendary Dick Turpin, known in the film as Big Dick. To combat this, the Bow Street Runners are established, and their chief, Sir Roger Daley, sends two of his men - Desmond Fancey and Jock Strapp - to deal with Turpin after his coach is held up and all his belongings are taken, including his clothes and those of his wife. The men work out that Turpin's crimes are centred on the Dencher area and head there to investigate. The Bow Street Runners have been called Londons first professional constables. ...

Dick Turpin is actually the alter ego of the local rector, Reverend Flasher, and his accomplices are Harriet, the rectory housekeeper, and Tom who pumps the church organ. Due to the rector's position in society, no-one suspects him and the Bow Street Runners even take him into their confidence. Their first attempt to catch Turpin stems from inaccurate information that he posesses an unusual birthmark. Strapp attempts to observe men with matching birthmarks but this ends in failure when he is thrown out of the local pub for being a peeping tom. Meanwhile Fancey is also chased from the pub by the members of a travelling show whom Turpin has tricked into attempting to discover if he has the birthmark. Alter Ego has multiple meanings: Alter Ego is a game for the Commodore 64 computer. ... An amusingly named pub (the Old New Inn) at Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswold Hills of South West England A pub in the Haymarket area of Edinburgh, Scotland A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada... Voyeurism is a practice in which an individual derives sexual pleasure from observing other people. ...

Their next attempt also fails - they arrange a meeting with Turpin when they plan to arrest him, but Turpin sends the local policemen who arrest Fancey and Strapp on suspicion of being the highwayman and an accomplice. On receiving a message of Turpin's arrest, Roger Daley sets off for Dencher with his wife, but their coach is again held up by Turpin's gang. On finding that Fancey and Strapp have been arrested, he takes personal charge of the search for Turpin. Turpin's assistant Harriet is arrested after Lady Daley recognises a bracelet she is wearing as one Turpin stole from her. Daley hopes to trap Turpin as he comes to rescue Harriet but his men are outsmarted and Turpin frees her. After he learns that Fancey revealed their plan to Reverend Flasher, Daley deduces that he must be Turpin and heads to the Church to arrest him. Turpin again manages to escape, however, and the film ends with him stealing Daley's carriage and leaving the area with Harriet.

External links

• Carry On Dick at the Internet Movie Database
• Carry On Dick at thewhippitinn.com
• Carry On Dick at carryon.org.uk
• Carry On Dick at carryonline.com