from Rank Organisation
Directed by
Gerald
Thomas
Starring
Sid James (Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond)
Kenneth Williams (The Khasi of Kalabar)
Charles Hawtrey (Private Jimmy Widdle)
Roy Castle (Captain Keene)
Joan Sims (Lady Joan Ruff-Diamond)
Bernard Bresslaw (Bungdit Din)
Peter Butterworth (Missionary)
Terry Scott (Sergeant-Major MacNutt)
Angela Douglas (Princess Jelhi)
Cardew Robinson (The Fakir)
Julian Holloway (Major Shorthouse)
Peter Gilmore (Private Ginger Hale)
Leon Thau (Stinghi)
Wanda Ventham (Wife #1)
Michael Mellinger (Chindi)
Alexandra Dane (Busti)
Dominique Don (MacNutt's Lure)
Derek Sydney (Major Domo)
David Spenser (Bunghit Din's servant)
Johnny Briggs (Sporran Soldier)
Simon Cain (Bagpipes Soldier)
Steven Scott (Burpa Guard)
Larry Taylor (Burpa at Door-grid)
Patrick Westwood (Burpa in Crowd)
John Hallam (Burpa)
Liz Gold (Khasi Wife)
Vicki Woolf (Khasi Wife)
Anne Scott (Khasi Wife)
Barbara Evans (Khasi Wife)
Lisa Noble (Khasi Wife)
Eve Eden (Khasi Wife)
Tamsin MacDonald (Khasi Wife)
Katherina Holden (Khasi Wife)
Valerie Leon (Girl in Hareem)
Written by
Talbot Rothwell
Original music by
Eric Rogers
Rated: 
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Filmed in 1968 and set in British India in 1895,
Carry On Up the Khyber is one of the team's most memorable efforts.
Sid James plays Sid James as ever, though nominally his role
is that of Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond, the unflappable British Governor
who must deal with the snakelike, scheming Khasi of Khalabar,
played by Kenneth Williams. A crisis occurs when the mystique
of the "devils in skirts" of the 3rd Foot and Mouth
regiment is exploded when one of their numbers, the sensitive-to-draughts
Charles Hawtrey, is discovered by the natives to be wearing underpants.
Revolt is in the offing, with Bernard Bresslaw once again playing
a seething native warrior. Roy Castle neatly plays the sort of
role normally assigned to Jim Dale, as the ineffectual young
officer, Peter Butterworth is a splendid compromised evangelist,
while Terry Scott puts his comedic all into the role of the gruff
Sergeant. Most enduring, however, is the final dinner party sequence
in which the British contingent, with the Burpas at the gates
of the compound, plaster falling all about them, demonstrates
typical insouciance in the face of imminent peril. The "I'm
Backing Britain" Union Jack hoist at the end, however, over-excitedly
reveals the streak of reactionary patriotism that lurked beneath
the bumbling double entendres of most Carry On films. --Amazon.co.uk
Carry
on Up the Khyber (VHS - PAL format - UK)
Carry
on Up the Khyber (UK)
by Norman Giller
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