ABLE, ALICE
Played by Marianne Stone
The wife of Bert Able, who’s a patient at Haven Hospital in Nurse. She’s seen visiting her hubby.
ABLE, BERT
Played by Cyril Chamberlain
A patient at Haven Hospital in Nurse, Bert lives in The Manor, a spacious house on the west side of the Common, with his wife and eleven kids. They rent the property from the local council for around twenty-two shillings a week.
ABLE PLATOON
Sergeant Grimshaw’s final platoon at Heathercrest National Service Depot. In Sergeant the platoon, part of the twenty-ninth intake, becomes – to everyone’s surprise – the champion platoon, breaking all records in the process.
Able Platoon come up trumps for Sergeant Grimshaw (Sergeant)
ABLE, SERGEANT LEN
Played by Patrick Mower
Leonard Able is a lazy, conniving troublemaker who tries to make his captain’s life hell in England. Together with the love of his life, Sergeant Tilly Willing, he tries anything to avoid having to work at the experimental 1313 anti-aircraft battery.
ABROAD, CARRY ON
See feature box here.
ABULBUL, SHEIKH ABDUL
Played by Bernard Bresslaw
Leader of the Arabs, the Sheikh has twelve wives and intends making Lady Jane Ponsonby, whom he’s kidnapped, number thirteen. Appears in various scenes during Follow That Camel, often attacking the garrison of his archenemies, the Foreign Legion.
ADAMS, GREGORY
Played by Kenneth Connor
This nervous, bumbling science teacher at Maudlin Street Secondary School is seen in Teacher. His hesitations and indecisiveness make for an ineffectual teacher, although there is no doubting his subject expertise. The arrival of Felicity Wheeler – a school inspector visiting Maudlin Street with Alistair Grigg, a child psychiatrist – becomes a major turning point in Adams’s life as he finds himself, almost reluctantly at first, falling in love with Wheeler.
ADAMS, JILL
Role: WPC Harrison in Constable
Blonde beauty Jill Adams, who was born in London in 1931, spent her early childhood in New Zealand before returning to England. After completing her education she held several jobs, including working as a shop assistant and secretary, before becoming a model.
Her good looks and shapely figure saw her heralded as Britain’s Marilyn Monroe, and it wasn’t long before offers of film work came her way. Appearing as an extra in Albert Broccoli’s The Black Knight in 1954, marked the beginning of many roles in, among others, Forbidden Cargo, One Way Out, Out of the Clouds, The Green Man and two Boulting Brothers’ films, Brothers in Law and Private’s Progress. Films in the Sixties include Doctor in Distress, The Comedy Man and Promise Her Anything. She’s also made occasional appearances on television.
ADAMS, MISS
Miss Adams, whose phone number is 663 404271, is mentioned by Sidney Bliss in Loving. When Terence Philpot’s first date with Jenny Grubb, which is arranged by Sid’s company, the Wedded Bliss Agency, is a disaster, he’s given Miss Adams’s phone number; an extremely irate Mr Philpot soon reports back, though, that date number two was equally unsuccessful, which isn’t surprising considering Miss Adams was already five months pregnant.
CARRY ON ABROAD
Alternative titles … What A Package, It’s All In, Swiss Hols In The Snow
A Peter Rogers production.
Distributed through Rank Organisation.
Released as an A certificate in 1972 in colour.
Running time: 88 mins.
CAST
| Sidney James | Vic Flange |
| Kenneth Williams | Stuart Farquhar |
| Charles Hawtrey | Eustace Tuttle |
| Joan Sims | Cora Flange |
| Peter Butterworth | Pepe |
| Kenneth Connor | Stanley Blunt |
| Hattie Jacques | Floella |
| Bernard Bresslaw | Brother Bernard |
| Barbara Windsor | Miss Sadie Tomkins |
| Jimmy Logan | Bert Conway |
| June Whitfield | Evelyn Blunt |
| Sally Geeson | Lily |
| Carol Hawkins | Marge |
| Gail Grainger | Moira Plunkett |
| Ray Brooks | Georgio |
| John Clive | Robin Tweet |
| David Kernan | Nicholas Phipps |
| Patsy Rowlands | Miss Dobbs |
| Derek Francis | Brother Martin |
| Jack Douglas | Harry |
| Amelia Bayntun | Mrs Tuttle |
| Alan Curtis | Police Chief |
| Hugh Futcher | Jailer |
| Gertan Klauber | Postcard Seller |
| Brian Osborne | Stall-Holder |
| Olga Lowe | Madame Fifi |
PRODUCTION TEAM
Screenplay by Talbot Rothwell
Music composed and conducted by Eric Rogers
Production Manager: Jack Swinburne
Art Director: Lionel Couch
Editor: Alfred Roome
Director of Photography: Alan Hume BSC
Camera Operator: Jimmy Devis
Continuity: Joy Mercer
Assistant Director: David Bracknell
Sound Recordists: Taffy Haines and Ken Barker
Make-up: Geoffrey Rodway
Assistant Art Director: Bill Bennison
Set Dresser: Don Picton
Hairdresser: Stella Rivers
Costume Designer: Courtenay Elliott
Dubbing Editor: Peter Best
Assistant Editor: Jack Gardner
Titles: G.S.E. Ltd
Processed by Rank Film Laboratories
Producer: Peter Rogers
Director: Gerald Thomas
Vic Flange, a pub landlord, is going on holiday; he’s taking a short break to the Mediterranean resort of Elsbels without his missus, Cora, who hates flying. Not that Vic is worried because it gives him a chance to while away a few days with the flirtatious Sadie Tomkins. His plans are spoilt, though, when one of the regulars, Harry, spills the beans. Hearing that Vic’s off to Elsbels, he tells Cora that Sadie is going too, which makes Vic’s wife determined to overcome her aversion to flying to prevent Miss Tomkins getting her claws into her husband.
Vic, Cora and Sadie are joined by a rather disparate bunch, all taking advantage of Wundatours’ £17 break in the sun, consisting of Marge and Lily, two girls looking for a holiday romance; a group of missionaries searching for the tomb of St Cecilia; Stanley Blunt and his complaining wife, Evelyn; mummy’s boy Eustace Tuttle; the loudmouthed Scot, Bert Conway and a rather gay Robin Tweet and his friend, Nicholas. In charge of the party is the inefficient courier, Stuart Farquhar, and his assistant, Moira Plunkett.