Carry on at Your Convenience (1971)

Director:

Gerald Thomas

Writer:

Talbot Rothwell (screenplay)

Release Date:

December 1971 (UK)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Flushed with success, the Carry On Team carries on round the bend

Plot:

This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative...

Plot Keywords:

Carry On | Sequel | Independent Film | Actor Shares First Name With Character

Cast

Sid James	...	Sid Plummer (as Sidney James)
Kenneth Williams	...	W. C. Boggs
Charles Hawtrey	...	Charles Coote
Joan Sims	...	Chloë Moore
Hattie Jacques	...	Beattie Plummer
Bernard Bresslaw	...	Bernie Hulke
Kenneth Cope	...	Vic Spanner
Patsy Rowlands	...	Hortence Withering
Jacki Piper	...	Myrtle Plummer
Richard O'Callaghan	...	Lewis Boggs
Bill Maynard	...	Fred Moore
Davy Kaye	...	Benny
Renee Houston	...	Agatha Spanner
Marianne Stone	...	Maud
Margaret Nolan	...	Popsy
Geoffrey Hughes	...	Willie
Hugh Futcher	...	Ernie
Simon Cain	...	Barman
Leon Greene	...	Chef
Harry Towb	...	Doctor in Film
Peter Burton	...	Hotel Manager
Larry Martyn	...	Rifle Range Owner
Shirley Stelfox	...	Bunny Waitress
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Alec Bregonzi	...	Photographer (scenes deleted)
Bill Pertwee	...	Manager of Whippit Inn (scenes deleted)
Terry Scott	...	Mr. Allcock (scenes deleted)
Philip Stone	...	Mr. Bulstrode (scenes deleted)
Amelia Bayntun	...	Mrs. Spragg (uncredited)
Duncan Flanning	...	Middle-Class Gentleman (uncredited)
Anouska Hempel	...	New Canteen Girl (uncredited)
Julian Holloway	...	Roger (uncredited)

Directed by
Gerald Thomas

Writing credits
Talbot Rothwell		(screenplay)

Produced by
Peter Rogers	....	producer

Original Music by
Eric Rogers

Cinematography by
Ernest Steward		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Alfred Roome

Art Direction by
Lionel Couch

Costume Design by
Courtenay Elliott

Makeup Department
Stella Rivers	....	hairdresser
Geoffrey Rodway	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Jack Swinburne	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
David Bracknell	....	assistant director

Art Department
William Alexander	....	assistant art director
Peter Howitt	....	set dresser
John Chisholm	....	props (uncredited)

Sound Department
Ken Barker	....	sound recordist
Danny Daniel	....	sound recordist
Brian Holland	....	dubbing editor
Graham V. Hartstone	....	sound re-recording mixer (uncredited)
Nicolas Le Messurier	....	sound assistant (uncredited)
Charlie McFadden	....	boom operator (uncredited)
Otto Snel	....	sound re-recording mixer (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
James Bawden	....	camera operator

Editorial Department
Jack Gardner	....	assistant editor (uncredited)

Music Department
Eric Rogers	....	conductor

Other crew
Rita Davison	....	continuity (as Rita Davidson)

Production Companies

• Rank Organisation, The
• Thomas Rogers Productions (as A Peter Rogers Production)

Distributors

• J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors (1971) (UK) (theatrical)
• Futurevision Ltd. (1987) (UK) (VHS)
• Axon Video (1988) (USA) (VHS)
• Carlton Visual Entertainment (2003) (UK) (DVD)

Other Companies

• GSE  titles (as G.S.E.)
• Royal Doulton Sanitary Potteries  toiletware by

Also Known As:

Carry on Round the Bend
Carry on at Your Convenience or Down the Spout or Ladies Please Be Seated or Up the Workers or Labour Relations Are the People Who Come to See You When You're Having a Baby (UK) (long title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:L | Australia:M | UK:A (original rating) (passed with cuts) | UK:PG (video rating) (1987)

Filming Locations:

Black Park Country Park, Wexham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Rank Organisation, The

Trivia:

The car that Sid Plumber buys himself after he starts winning on the horses to replace his decrepit looking Ford 100E, is a 1971 Morris Marina 1.3 Deluxe Coupe in Harvest Gold, which is especially notable by the fact that the Marina was a brand new model in 1971 and the car in the film was one of the very first.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Bernie revs the motorbike's engine outside Mrs Spanner's house, a lady in a green dress is walking down the street in the background with her back to the camera and walks almost nearly out of shot when the we cut to Mrs Spanner shouting out of the window. In the next shot (of Bernie back on the bike) the lady in the green dress can be seen walking past once again.

Quotes:

[waving a dinner knife]
Agatha Spanner: This is a respectable and refined neighbourhood AND DON'T YOU BLOODY FORGET IT.
Vic Spanner: How can I, when you keep reminding me of it so nicely.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Carry on Snogging (1998) (TV)

Superb schoolboy toilet humour!

This is my favourite "Carry On" film.

It has a gag per minute. Most of the gags are "telegraphed" and predictable but for me this makes them so much funnier.

The film is about a toilet making factory owned by WC Boggs (note to US readers - a toilet in England is called a "bog"). 90% of the gags are related one way or another to toilets or biological functions.

If you like slapstick and toilet humour then you will love this film.

If you are pretentious and claim only to like "serious" humour then take that corn-cob out of your Khyber and watch this film anyway.

Also recommended: "Carry on Abroad"; "Carry on Matron"; "Holiday on the Buses", and "Mutiny on the Buses".