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Carry On Abroad is the twenty fourth Carry On film, released in 1972. It was the last of the Carry On movies in which all the regular Carry On cast appeared together. 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. ...
1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...
Plot Summary
Pub landlord Vic Flange (Sid James) hopes to take his girlfriend Sadie Tomkins (Barbara Windsor) away for a dirty weekend in the Mediterranean, but his plans backfire when his wife (Joan Sims) insists on coming along too. Together they are just three of the holiday-makers on Stuart Farquhar's (Kenneth Williams) 'Wundatours' package trip to the resort of Elsbels. Things start to go wrong when the group arrives at Pepe's (Peter Butterworth) unfinished hotel, spend a night in prison and find themselves drinking too much of the local "Liquora de l'amora". 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. ...
Irene Joan Marian Sims (May 9, 1930, Laindon, Essex - June 28, 2001) was 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. ...
Peter Butterworth Peter Butterworth (February 4, 1919 - January 16, 1979) was an English comic actor who appeared in many of the Carry On films. ...
Trivia The Spanish town seen in the film was a standing exterior set at Pinewood Studios. It can also be seen in The Goodies' episode "Movies". The Goodies was a surreal British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s combining sketches and situation comedy and starring Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie. ...
The Movies was an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies. ...
This was Charles Hawtrey's last Carry On appearance. He was fired from the series because of his excessive drinking, which makes his character here - an alcoholic mummy's boy - all the more poignant. Charles Hawtrey appeared posthumously on the cover of the Smiths compilation The Very Best of The Smiths (2001). ...
The cast never left the UK when making this film; the beach was the Pinewood car park.
The technical advisor for the film is listed in the credits as Sun Tan Lo Tion.
Memorable Quotes Mr. Farquhar: My name is Stuart Farquhar.
Pepe: Stupid what?
Mr. Farquhar : Stuart! Stuart Farquhar.
Vic Flange: I think he was right the first time!
Another memorable quote comes at the dinner table when Vic Flange (Sid James) and Cora his wife (Joan Sims) are seated with Mr and Mrs Blunt (Kenneth Connor and June Whitfield). Vic offers Mrs Blunt a glass of wine:
Mrs Blunt: I don't drink. I tried it once and didn't like it.
Vic Flange : Smoke? [offering a cigarette]
Mrs Blunt: I tried it once and didn't like it.
Vic Flange (to Cora): Strange.
Mrs Blunt: Not at all, my daughter is exactly the same.
Vic Flange: Your only child, I presume?
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