Carry On Cruising

Unrated

4/1/19621h 29m

Theatrical Release (US)

Overview:

Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short notice before the voyage begins there isn't much to choose from. Not only does he get the five most incompetent shipmates ever to sail the seven seas, but the passengers turn out to be a rather strange bunch too. The SS Happy Wanderer will never be the same.

Director:

Gerald Thomas

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

sea
ship
holiday
boat
vacation
romance
cruise ship
drunk
ship's cook
sea voyage
innuendo
ship's doctor
gymnastics instructor
cruise liner
passengers

Cast

Sidney James

~ as ~

Captain Wellington Crowther

Kenneth Williams

~ as ~

First Officer Leonard Marjoribanks

Kenneth Connor

~ as ~

Dr. Arthur Binn

Liz Fraser

~ as ~

Glad Trimble

Dilys Laye

~ as ~

Flo Castle

Esma Cannon

~ as ~

Bridget Madderley

Lance Percival

~ as ~

Wilfred Haines

Jimmy Thompson

~ as ~

Sam Turner

Ronnie Stevens

~ as ~

Drunk Passenger

Vincent Ball

~ as ~

Jenkins

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
6
You have to feel for poor old "Capt. Crowther" (Sid James) when he discovers that half of his crew have gone down with something and their replacements don't even know what ocean they are sailing in. His problems don't stop there as the SS "Happy Wanderer" has a clientele that would probably have made the "Titanic" iceberg jump out of the way. As ever, it's Esma Cannon who steals the show as the lively, doddery, "Miss Madderley", but there are also some fine contributions from Liz Fraser; Ronnie Stevens - always pickled - and Kenneth Williams as the hapless second-in-command. The jokes are all the usual round of nautical, innuendo-ridden, quips (though I am not sure I heard "avast behind" in there) and the cast look like they are all enjoying themselves as the story plots it's predictable, but entertaining, course. Somehow I felt the "Carry On" films worked better in black and white, the humour pertained more to the past rather than the colour of the future, but this takes a swipe at all things cruising: snobbery, excess, boredom and the middle classes who tended to occupy the cabins when not getting blotto on cocktails they had never heard of - and it does it quite well. It's a chortle, not a laugh out enterprise and is anchored well by some pithy writing and Messrs. James and Williams.