The Nine Old Cobblers

8.45pm - 8th February 1975

"It does not arise in the monastery"

"No, I'm sure it doesn't"

DVD UK

DVD US

24 min Colour

The Stars
	Jack Douglas Kenneth Connor Barbara Windsor Joan Sims David Lodge Victor Maddern Patsy Rowlands John Carlin Sam Harding	Lord Peter Flimsy Punter Maisie Amelia Forebush Inspector Bungler Charlie Miss Dorkins Vicar Pianist

The Crew
Screenplay Producer Director	Dave Freeman Gerald Thomas Alan Tarrant

Synopsis

Perhaps the writer, Dave Freeman’s, better foray into the Carry On milieu, using some wonderfully appalling jokes which are delivered with straight-faced sincerity by the crime-busting duo (Jack Douglas and Kenneth Connor).

Lord Peter Flimsy and Punter, his sidekick, encounter a world of unusual clues, vicars and tea, mad murderers and peeking through keyholes. As you may have guessed, this is a comic take on the 1920’s world of Lord Peter Whimsy, mickey-taking everything from Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie. The characters that the Carry Oners play are stock Carry On performances but the dialogue is banal.

Jack and Kenneth play the main characters brilliantly, allowing the other characters played by Barbara, Joan and Peter Butterworth to bounce innuendo and smut around with great aplomb.

There is a good historical atmosphere about the mist-swirled streets of London and the posh country manors in this trilogy of tales (The Case Of The Screaming Winkles, The Case of the Coughing Parrot, and The Nine Old Cobblers).