Carry On Up the Jungle

"A safari of laughs with the Carry On Gang!"

1970 1h 29m EN

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5.9

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★5.9TMDB · 68

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The Carry On team send up the Tarzan tradition in great style. Lady Evelyn Bagley mounts an expedition to find her long-lost baby. Bill Boosey is the fearless hunter and guide. Prof. Tinkle is searching for the rare Oozalum bird. Everything is going swimmingly until a gorilla enters the camp, and then the party is captured by an all female tribe from Aphrodisia...

“A safari of laughs with the Carry On Gang!”

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Cast

Frankie Howerd
Professor Inigo Tinkle
Sidney James
Mr. Bill Boosey
Charles Hawtrey
Walter Bagley
Joan Sims
Lady Evelyn Bagley
Terry Scott
Ug
Kenneth Connor
Mr. Claude Chumley
Bernard Bresslaw
Upsidasi
Jacki Piper
June

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Gerald Thomas
Writers: Talbot Rothwell
Languages: English, Swahili
Countries: United Kingdom

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RUNTIME

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89 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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2 / 8

ERA

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56 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Swahili.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Carry On Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

ERA

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Directed by Gerald Thomas, shot by Ernest Steward. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Alfred Roome shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Frankie Howerd and Sidney James and Charles Hawtrey carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "A safari of laughs with the Carry On Gang!".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Gerald Thomas directs. Ernest Steward behind the camera. Alfred Roome cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United Kingdom. Dialogue in English, Swahili.

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189 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
256 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Swahili.
4Part of the "Carry On Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Gerald Thomas, shot by Ernest Steward. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Editor Alfred Roome shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Frankie Howerd and Sidney James and Charles Hawtrey carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "A safari of laughs with the Carry On Gang!".
9IMDB entry: tt0065525 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Only 68 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Ernest Steward
Editing: Alfred Roome
Costume design: Courtenay Elliott
Makeup / hair: Geoffrey Rodway
Runtime: 89 min · 1h 29m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: Carry On Up the Jungle (1970)

Part of

Carry On Collection

This is classic British comedy at it's best! This collection contains all 31 hilarious Carry On movies. Starring: Kenneth Williams Charles Hawtrey Jim Dale Joan Sims Barbara Windsor Hattie Jacques Windsor Davies Valerie Leon Peter Butterworth Bernard Bresslaw Terry Scott Bill Maynard Phil Silvers Patsy Rowlands and Frankie Howerd.

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John Chard2016-08-10
★ 7/10
Lubby-Dubby The African jungle, and Lady Bagley is part of an expedition to hopefully find her long lost son who disappeared years before, along with her thought to be dead husband. However this is no ordinary trip, Professor Tinkle is searching for the rare Oozalum bird and expedition leader William Boosey well and truly lives up to his surname. Not only are there problems in the camp, outside is numerous other dangers. Wild beasts, wild men and tribes unheard of by human ears before. 1970 saw the Carry On team begin the decade with one of the better offerings in the franchise. Boosted by the returning Frankie Howerd and Terry Scott to join Messrs James, Hawtrey, Sims, Connor and Bresslaw, Carry On Up The Jungle sticks close to the cheeky formula that had worked in the better series entries previously (think Carry On Up The Kyber from 1968). Originally intended to be called Carry On Tarzan (the idea was scrapped for legal reasons), "Jungle" plonks a load of British odd balls in the jungle and invite us to observe how they cope. Which of course we know is not going to be very well at all. Terry Scott steals the film as a blundering Tarzan type (a role apparently turned down by Jim Dale), whilst Howerd and James get maximum humour from their polar opposite characters. With a simple plot and carrying the series innuendo trademarks on its snake bitten … ahem, Carry On Up the Jungle is a charmingly funny series entry. 7/10
CinemaSerf2023-07-26
★ 5/10
"Carry on Tarzan" or "Carry on Solomon doesn't mind"? I was never a fan of Frankie Howerd's rather unsubtle form of humour, and I found that when he appeared in these, he tended to upstage the rather gentler (though just as seedy) humour that emanated from Messrs. James, Hawtrey et al. This time around, the diamond wearing Joan Sims' "Lady Bagley" is mounting a jungle expedition to see if her long-lost baby really ended up in the belly of a crocodile alongside her husband. Meantime, a loincloth clad Terry Scott is marauding the jungle swinging from tree to tree... Might he be the one? Might she still want to know if he is? This isn't really very good. Howerd dominates with his birdwatching "Prof. Tinkle" and he rather subsumes James's dipso expedition leader "Boosey", Sims and a rather daft performance from Hawtrey's "Tonka" (trucks not chocolate?). Bernard Bresslaw is quite entertaining as their local guide "Upsidaisi" and the dialogue is the usual fayre of rhyming slang and nudge, nudge, wink, wink.... It struggles to sustain it's initial momentum, I felt, and relied too much on a star that I just didn't rate, so sorry - not that great.