Carry On Jungle

Running Time - 89m	Colour		Certificate - A
Budget - Ł210,000		UK Release - March 1970
Shot - 113 October 1969 - 21 November 1969

Foreign Titles
Denmark - Carry On Tarzan	Germany - Queen of the Amazons
Hungary - Carry On Through the Jungle	Poland - Full Speed Ahead Safari
South America - Watch Out for the Jungle	Sweden - Adventures in Africa

The Stars
	Frankie Howerd Sidney James Joan Sims Kenneth Connor Charles Hawtrey Terry Scott Bernard Bresslaw Jacki Piper Valerie Leon Edwina Carroll Valeria Moore Nina Baden-Semper Rueben Martin	Professor Tinkle Bill Boosey Lady Evelyn Bagley Claude Chumley Tonka Jungle Boy Upsy Daisy June Leda Nerda Lubi Lieutenant Nosha Gorilla

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

Synopsis

This film was an immediate non-starter due to the fact that the exotic locations required were never going to happen due to the notorious tight purse strings on the Carry On films. What we end up with instead are obvious studio sets with stock footage of various wild animals. As long as you accept this you'll be OK.

Terry Scott takes the lead as Jungle Boy in a role that was written with Jim Dale in mind and it doesn’t seem to work as it should. Bernard Bresslaw pulls off a native with his usual aplomb, although now days I don't think it would be played by him, but the Carry Ons are certainly a product of their time. Frankie Howerd makes his reappearance in the Carry Ons playing Frankie Howerd as always, but saying that he does have some of the classic comedy moments. Joan Sims moving out of her dolly bird period in the Carry Ons into the more mature role of Lady Evelyn Bagley comes across well with scenes such as the mistaken advances she thinks she is getting under the dinner table.

The explorers of this film all have their own reasons for the journey, Dr Tinkle is after a rare bird, Lady Bagley is looking for her family and Bill Boosey is just along for the ride. In the course of the journey Lady Bagley comes across her long lost husband, who is King of the all-female Nosha tribe when they are captured by them. As there are no men around, the males of the expedition are put to good use!!