Carry On Abroad

or
What a Package
or
It's All In
Carry On Abroad or
Swiss Hols in the Snow

"The holiday of a laughtime"

"Don't you understand? I don't want just a quick roll in the hay. I need something that's going to last"

"Who says it's not going to last? We don't go home until tomorrow afternoon"

DVD UK

German Poster

Italian Poster

Running Time - 88m	Colour		Certificate - A
Budget - Ł225,000		UK Release - December 1972
Shot - 17 April 1972 - 26 May 1972

Foreign Titles
Belgium - Looking for the Sun Abroad	Denmark - What a Holiday
Germany - A Completely Mad Holiday	Portugal - The Shopping Spree

The Stars
	Sidney James Kenneth Williams Charles Hawtrey Joan Sims Bernard Bresslaw Barbara Windsor Kenneth Connor June Whitfield Hattie Jacques Peter Butterworth Jimmy Logan Sally Geeson Carol Hawkins Ray Brooks Derek Francis John Clive Jack Douglas Patsy Rowlands David Kernan Gail Grainger Amelia Bayntun Bill Maynard	Vic Flange Stuart Farquhar Eustace Tuttle Cora Flange Brother Bernard Sadie Tompkins Stanley Blunt Evelyn Blunt Floella Pepe Bert Conway Lily Marge Georgio Brother Martin Robin Harry Miss Dobbs Nicholas Moira Eustace's Mother Fiddler

The Crew
Producer Director Screenplay Music Cinematographer Editor	Peter Rogers Gerald Thomas Talbot Rothwell Eric Rogers Ernest Steward BSc Alfred Roome

Synopsis

A coach load of tourists are travelling to the Spanish resort of Elsbels under the care of Stuart Farquhar (Kenneth Williams) but on arrival they find the resort is far from finished. Landlord Vic Flange (Sid James) had planned to go away with his favourite customer Sadie Tompkins (Barbara Windsor) but when his wife Cora (Joan Sims) finds out, she decides to go along herself, so Vic and Sadie have to keep their meetings private, including one in their adjoining bathroom when more than just Barbara’s acting skills are showcased in the shower.

None of the regulars steal the show at all. Talbot Rothwell’s scripts are becoming very thin of comic genius that has been prevalent before. Charles Hawtrey seems to be running on auto-pilot through most of the film, which can probably be explained by the drinking problems he had. This was in fact, the last Carry On he made as Peter Rogers, the producer, found he was becoming too unreliable to work with. Barbara Windsor puts in her usual solid performance but even she can’t recover the material. The normally brilliant Kenneth Williams is sadly serviced poorly by the script. Sid plays the usual Sid character, after all the girls - although at the end he seems to come to terms with his married to Cora life (Joan Sims) and becomes the family man again - perhaps a mid life crisis!

Bernard Bresslaw plays against type portraying a monastic brother, although he is tempted by Lily and Marge (Sally Geeson and Carol Hawkins).