Carry On Convenience

or
Down the Spout
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Ladies Please be Seated
or
Up The Workers
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Labour Relations are the People who Come to See You When You're Having a Baby

"Flushed with success the Carry on team carries on around the bend"

"I can assure you, Sir , that an elephant could safely use that toilet"

"Not without a much bigger bowl"

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The Stars
	Sidney James Kenneth Williams Charles Hawtrey Hattie Jacques Joan Sims Bernard Bresslaw Kenneth Cope Patsy Rowlands Jacki Piper Richard O'Callaghan Bill Maynard Davy Kaye Renee Houston Marianne Stone Margaret Nolan Geoffrey Hughes Hugh Futcher Bill Pertwee	Sid Plummer W C Boggs Charlie Coote Beattie Plummer Chloe Moore Bernie Hulke Vic Spanner Miss Withering Myrtle Plummer Lewis Boggs Fred Moore Benny Agatha Spanner Maude Popsy Willy Ernie Roadhouse Manager

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

Synopsis

Strike-plagued toilet manufacturers, W C Boggs (Kenneth Williams) are quite literally on the brink of going down the pan. When Boggs tells Sid Plummer (Sid James), the works’ foreman that they need a thousand pounds to stay in business, Sid puts to work his racing expect budgie but this doesn’t help and eventually the factory moves nearer closing down. Then one morning, the workers return and the managers think the strike is over, only to realise that the strikers have only come in because it is the day of the Works’ outing to Brighton. This is where the real fun starts when the managers decide to go along.

Compared to previous films this was a big flop and this has been put down to the sensitive nature of the film; a large percentage of the Carry On audience consisted of the workers they were sending up. This still has enough of the classic Carry On humour, with still being able to delve in to the newer, bawdier side that was to come. This aside, this is the best of the bunch. Vic Spanner (Kenneth Cope) sharply plays the union rep dead-panly. The love affair between Lewis Boggs (Richard O’Callaghan) and Myrtle Plummer (Jacki Piper) is perhaps the most touching relationship in the whole series. Hattie Jacques is wonderful as the twittering bird-obsessed wife of Sid, whiling away her days in a house much in need of cleaning. A classic, the best, number one.

Running Time - 90m	Colour		Certificate - A
Budget - Ł220,000		UK Release - December 1971
Shot - 22 March 1971 - 7 May 1971

Foreign Titles
US - Carry On Around the Bend	Germany - A Dangerous Strike
Hungary - Carry On Your Way	Poland - How Do You Make Your Bed