Carry on Up the Jungle (1970)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Gerald Thomas

Writer:

Talbot Rothwell (screenplay)

Release Date:

March 1970 (UK)

Genre:

Adventure | Comedy

Tagline:

Who were you expecting . . . the galloping gourmet?

Plot:

The Carry On team send up the Tarzan tradition in great style. Lady Evelyn Bagley mounts an expedition to find her long-lost baby...

Plot Keywords:

Amazon Tribe | Witch Doctor | Carry On | Sequel | Africa

Cast

Frankie Howerd	...	Professor Inigo Tinkle
Sid James	...	Bill Boosey (as Sidney James)
Charles Hawtrey	...	Tonka the Great / Walter Bagley
Joan Sims	...	Lady Evelyn Bagley
Terry Scott	...	Ugh, the Jungle Boy
Kenneth Connor	...	Claude Chumley
Bernard Bresslaw	...	Upsidaisi
Jacki Piper	...	June
Valerie Leon	...	Leda
Reuben Martin	...	Gorilla
Edwina Carroll	...	Nerda
Valerie Moore	...	Lubi Lieutenant
Cathi March	...	Lubi Lieutenant
Danny Daniels	...	Nosha Chief
Yemi Ajibadi	...	Witch Doctor (as Yemi Ajibade)

Also Known As:

Carry on Jungleboy (UK) (working title)
Carry on Up the Congo
Carry on Up the Jungle or Show Me Your Waterhole and I'll Show You Mine (Australia) (poster title)
Carry on Up the Jungle or the African Queens or Stop Beating About the Bush or Show Me Your Waterhole and I'll Show You Mine (UK) (complete title)

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:L | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Rank Organisation, The

Trivia:

Bernard Bresslaw learned all his native orders in a genuine African language, but on the first day of shooting, the extras all stared at him dumbly - all were of Caribbean origin and thus completely confused by his orders. However Sid James (born in South Africa) recognized the real thing and congratulated him.

Goofs:

Continuity: When June and the Jungle Boy are by the side of the lake, June's negligee gets very wet and sandy. When she goes to get her clothes to return to base she is spotlessly clean.

Quotes:

Lady Evelyn Bagley: [flirtatiously] One would feel so much safer with a strong, fearless man beside one.
Prof. Inigo Tinkle: Oh, I agree. But where could we find one out here?

Movie Connections:

Featured in Carry on Snogging (1998) (TV)

A good way to spend an hour and a half

A spoof of the tarzan films, this a very funny and entertaining movie. Not quite up to the standard of carry on up the khyber, but nevertheless the cast all give great performances, especially the wonderful Joan Sims who plays Lady Evelyn Bagley. The film seems a little disjointed at times, but there are enough jokes and innuendo to sustain it - Frankie Howerd has some particulaly memorable lines-"I'm flabberghasted, my ghast has never been so flabbered" and like all the carry on films is very likeable.