
Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidable Councillor Prodworthy, head of the local women's liberation movement, has other ideas. It's open warfare as the women's lib attempt to sabotage the contest.... (Full plot summary below)
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Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidable Councillor Prodworthy, head of the local women's liberation movement, has other ideas. It's open warfare as the women's lib attempt to sabotage the contest.
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| User ReviewLyndall Mbarbara windsor is hilarious in this lead role. sid james is so funny to watch. definitley one of my favs |
| User ReviewMatt JMargaret Nolan and Babs Windsor...in bikinis...fighting! Valerie Leon and Bernie Bresslaw mistaken for the same woman! Sid James is imperious as councillor Fiddler. Complete and utter genius. |
| User Reviewgary twell umn this is the only carry on movie ive watched but think its ok its nothing special 2 watch..its got a good cast of actors/actressess throguhout this movie..i think that sidney fiddler plays a good part throughout this movie..i think that sid james plays a good part throughout this movie as well...its an old 1970's comedy/drama movie its got a good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie...i think that the director of this comedy/drama movie had done a good job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect thorughout this movie n its an ok movie 2 watch |
| User ReviewPhilomena gThat sid is a creep in this with those girls! actually he always is you will see babs baps in this!! |
| User ReviewDougal SA bit of a final hurrah before the Carry On films started to decline into the 1970s. The films had long been associated with seaside comic postcard humour so it's something of a surprise that it took until this point in the series for them to actually set one at a seaside resort. Fircombe is a struggling South Coast resort where it's always raining and there's little for the holiday makers to do. To try and boost the local economy councillor Sid James suggests they hold a beauty contest which he would be only too happy to organise. The mayor agrees but the news is less well received by Sid's girlfriend, hotel owner Joan Sims, and fellow councillor June Whitfield. As a bevy of young girls descend on the resort Whitfield organises a women's-lib style action group determined to sabotage the event - and various comedy japes ensue. As with any Carry On film this is light on plot and heavy on innuendo and slapstick. What raises these films above others of the type are the cast of genuine comic genii character actors that they pull together. Unfortunately it's around this time that some of the original group of cast members began to drop out of the series so we have no Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey or Hattie Jaques which is what really stops it being worth a five star rating as despite these omissions the jokes are genuinely funny and the comedy light and entertaining. Yes, it can hardly be said to be striking many blows for women's lib, despite the fact that it's the female characters that are generally the more intelligent and get one over their more doltish male compatriots, but these films were a product of their time and owe more to music hall than high brow theatre! The usual Carry On comic elements are all on display, knockabout chases, men dressed as women, mistaken identity, and lots of innuendo all leading up to a climactic slapstick set piece but it's none the worse for that. It never did Shakespeare's comedies any harm now did it? |
| User ReviewLady DI love pretty much all carry on films and this is one of my favourites!! |
| User ReviewStuart KThe 25th Carry On film in the long running series, and for this one, they pushed the boat out with the sex references and the risque humour, but staying on the right side of family friendly, but only just. It's actually one of the funniest films in a series which at the time was sinking into a sad decline. This one is set in the seaside town of Fircombe, where tourism is dwindling, no thanks to the bad weather the resort is having. Local councilor Sid Fiddler (Sid James) has an idea, a beauty contest which would be likely to boost tourism. The town's mayor Frederick Bumble (Kenneth Connor) is all for the idea, but they face stiff opposition from the prudish Augusta Prodworthy (June Whitfield), a women's liberationist. But, Fiddler goes ahead with the plans, with the girls staying at the Palace Hotel, ran by Connie Philpotts (Joan Sims), who isn't for the idea either. Prodworthy will try anything to put a stop to the contest going ahead, but Fiddler won't go down without a fight. For reference, this is the one where Bernard Bresslaw dresses in drag, and there's a cameo from Robin Askwith as a cheeky photographer. :P But, it's still good fun, with Sid James coming out with alot of the best double-entendres of the films and indeed the series. :P |
| User ReviewCarl Mgood show. this is an old comedy guaranteed a laugh. |
| User ReviewDougie FWithout being sexist, Margaret Nolan's knockers are the highlight for me!! Was that sexist? Who cares! |
| User ReviewIan LThe British seaside, beauty contests and civic pride all lampooned in one delicious package. A hilarious study of our nation's social history. |