"When it comes to Beauty Queens - It's 'Carry On' and bust!
"I like to think a man can have a relationship with a woman which isn't based just on sex" "I fully agree.  She should have money as well."	DVD UK	UK Poster		Polish DVD

 

Running Time - 88m	Colour		Certificate - A
Budget - £206,000		UK Release - November 1973
Shot - 16 April 1973 - 25 May 1973

Foreign Titles
Germany - Carry On English	Finland - Lets Go Girls
Hungary - Go Girls	Sweden - Come On Girls

 

The Stars
	Sid James Barbara Windsor Kenneth Connor Joan Sims Bernard Bresslaw June Whitfield Jack Douglas Peter Butterworth Patsy Rowlands Joan Hickson Valerie Leon Robin Askwith Margaret Nolan Sally Geeson Angela Grant Wendy Richard David Lodge Arnold Ridley Patricia Franklin Bill Pertwee Marianne Stone Billy Cornelius Jimmy Logan	Sidney Fiddler Hope Springs Frederick Bumble Connie Philpotts Peter Potter Augusta Prodworthy William Admiral Mildred Bumble Mrs Dukes Paula Perkins Larry Dawn Brakes Debra Miss Bangor Ida Downs Police Inspector Alderman Pratt Rosemary Fire Chief Miss Drew Constable Cecil Gaybody

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

 

Synopsis Sid Fiddler’s (Sid James) plan to boost a rundown seaside resort by staging a beauty contest doesn’t go down too well with the local Woman’s Lib Councillor, Augusta Prodworthy (June Whitfield).  Sid gets Peter Potter (Bernard Bresslaw) to publicise the contest and Peter comes up with all manner of stunts, which go awry, including entering himself as one of the contestants.   When Hope Springs (Barbara Windsor) appears on the scene, Sid’s sights fall on her but his girlfriend Connie Philpotts (Joan Sims) is having none of it. This is a film of two halves where the Sid/Beauty contest half is kept separate from the feminist shenanigans of Augusta Prodworthy until right at the end.  The gags are more saucy and have tipped over the edge of seaside postcard humour into an un-Carry On-like crudeness.  The jokes are hammered home with a real force not before seen.  The production rate of the films is now reduced to just one a year and is obviously a mark of the decline of the series.

 

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