Carry On Up the Jungle
Directed by	Gerald Thomas
Written by	Talbot Rothwell
Starring	Frankie Howerd Sid James Charles Hawtrey
Release date(s)	1970
Running time	89 mins
Country	UK
Language	English
IMDb profile

Carry On Up the Jungle is the nineteenth "Carry On" film. Gerald Thomas (1920 - 1993) was a British film director. ... 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. ... Frankie Howerd Frankie Howerd OBE (born Francis Alex Howard in York, England, 6 March 1917 - not 1922 as he claimed; died in London, 19 April 1992) was a distinctive English comedian and comic actor. ... Sid James Sid James (8 May 1913–26 April 1976) was a film and television actor. ... There have been two notable actors named Charles Hawtrey: Sir Charles Hawtrey (1858-1923), stage and silent film actor; Charles Hawtrey (1914-1988), who named himself after the earlier actor, and is best known for the Carry On films. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... 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. ...

Plot Summary

The Carry On team's send up of the Tarzan/African exploration genre: Lady Evelyn Bagley (Joan Sims) finances an expedition to find her long-lost husband and baby son. Bill Boosey (Sid James) is the fearless hunter and guide. Professor Inigo Tinkle (Frankie Howerd) is searching for the rare Oozalum bird, which is said to fly in ever decreasing circles until it disappears up its own rear end. Lady Evelyn's finds her son, who is now a Tarzan-like ape-man, who then abducts a young woman. A gorilla enters the camp and wreaks havoc and the men get captured by an all female tribe from the lost world of Aphrodisia. James H. Pierce and Joan Burroughs Pierce starred in the 1932-34 Tarzan radio series 1964 Edition of Tarzan of the Apes Tarzan, a fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first appeared in the 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apes, and then in twenty-three sequels. ... Irene Joan Marian Sims (May 9, 1930, Laindon, Essex - June 28, 2001) was a British actress. ... Sid James Sid James (8 May 1913–26 April 1976) was a film and television actor. ... Frankie Howerd Frankie Howerd OBE (born Francis Alex Howard in York, England, 6 March 1917 - not 1922 as he claimed; died in London, 19 April 1992) was a distinctive English comedian and comic actor. ... Type species Troglodytes gorilla Savage, 1847 distribution of Gorilla Species Gorilla gorilla Gorilla beringei The gorilla, the largest of the living primates, is a ground-dwelling omnivore that inhabits the forests of Africa. ...

Cast Overview

• Sid James - Bill Boosey (as Sidney James)
• Kenneth Connor - Claude Chumley
• Frankie Howerd - Professor Inigo Tinkle
• Charles Hawtrey - Tonka the Great/Walter
• Joan Sims - Lady Evelyn Bagley
• Terry Scott - Cecil, the Jungle Boy
• Bernard Bresslaw - Upsidaisi
• Jacki Piper - June
• Valerie Leon - Leda
• Roy Stewart - Nosha
• Nina Baden-Semper - Girl Nosha

Sid James Sid James (8 May 1913–26 April 1976) was a film and television actor. ... Kenneth Connor (1916-1993) Kenneth Connor, MBE (6 June 1916 – 28 November 1993) was a British comedy stage, radio, film and TV actor, best known for the Carry On films. ... Frankie Howerd Frankie Howerd OBE (born Francis Alex Howard in York, England, 6 March 1917 - not 1922 as he claimed; died in London, 19 April 1992) was a distinctive English comedian and comic actor. ... Charles Hawtrey appeared posthumously on the cover of the Smiths compilation The Very Best of The Smiths (2001). ... Irene Joan Marian Sims (May 9, 1930, Laindon, Essex - June 28, 2001) was a British actress. ... Terry Scott (May 4, 1927-July 26, 1994) was a comedian who appeared in seven Carry On films. ... Bernard Bresslaw (February 25, 1934 - June 11, 1993) was an English actor who was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. ... Jacki Piper (born 3 August 1948) is an actress best known for her appearances in Carry On Up The Jungle, Carry On Loving, Carry On At Your Convenience and Carry On Matron. ... Valerie Leon in The Spy Who Loved Me. Valerie Leon (born November 12, 1945) is a British actress, regarded as something of a cult figure due to her roles in a number of high profile British film franchises. Her father was a director of a textile company and her mother... -1... Nina Baden-Semper,(b. ...

Trivia

1. Roy Stewart who played a Nosha also played Toberman in the Doctor Who story The Tomb of the Cybermen
2. Nina Baden-Semper who played a girl Nosha later became famous as one of the stars of situation comedy Love Thy Neighbour and was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1975.
3. The film's title is reminiscent of other films made by Frankie Howerd in the same period, all with 'Up The' in the title, e.g. Up Pompeii, and Up The Chastity Belt
4. The plot of the Futurama episode Amazon Women in the Mood owes something to this film.

Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme (and 1996 television movie) produced by the BBC about the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor, who explores time and space with his companions, solving problems and righting wrongs. ... The Tomb of the Cybermen is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in four weekly parts from September 2 to September 23, 1967. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Love Thy Neighbour was a British sitcom of the early 1970s, made by Thames Television for ITV. It starred Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Nina Baden-Semper and Kate Williams. ... This Is Your Life was a television documentary series hosted by Ralph Edwards, which originally aired in the United States from 1952 to 1961, and again from 1972 on NBC. It originated as a radio show airing from 1948 to 1952 on NBC Radio. ... Up Pompeii was a British television comedy series of the 1970s. ... Futurama is an Emmy Award-winning American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) and David X. Cohen for the Fox Network. ... Amazon Women in the Mood is the first episode in season 3 of Futurama. ...

External links

• Carry On Up the Jungle at the Internet Movie Database
• Carry On up the Jungle Location Guide at The Whippit Inn