Carry On Spying
| Carry On Spying | |
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Original UK quad poster
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| Directed by | Gerald Thomas |
| Produced by | Peter Rogers |
| Written by |
Talbot Rothwell Sid Colin |
| Starring |
Kenneth Williams Barbara Windsor Bernard Cribbins Charles Hawtrey Eric Barker Dilys Laye Jim Dale |
| Music by | Eric Rogers |
| Cinematography | Alan Hume |
| Edited by | Archie Ludski |
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Peter Rogers Productions/
Anglo-Amalgamated |
| Distributed by | Anglo-Amalgamated/ Warner-Pathé |
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Running time
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87 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £148,000 |
Carry On Spying is a 1964 film, the ninth in the series of Carry On films to be made. It marks Barbara Windsor's first appearance in the series. Series regulars Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey and Jim Dale are present. Bernard Cribbins makes the second of his three Carry On appearances (although it would be 28 years before he returned in Carry On Columbus). Eric Barker appears for his third entry (his final appearance would be in Carry On Emmannuelle 14 years later). Dilys Laye returns after her debut in Carry On Cruising. Carry On Spying is the last Carry On film shot in black and white.
A top secret chemical formula has been stolen by STENCH (the Society for the Total Extinction of Non-Conforming Humans). Fearful of what would happen if that formula fell into the wrong hands, the Chief of the Secret Service reluctantly sends the only agent he has left, the bumbling and snide Agent Desmond Simpkins, (Kenneth Williams), and his three trainees, Agent Harold Crump, (Bernard Cribbins), Agent Daphne Honeybutt, (Barbara Windsor), and Agent Charlie Bind (Charles Hawtrey), to find the formula.
The agents travel, separately and in different disguises, to Vienna, where they make contact with Carstairs at the Cafe Mozart. Then they travel on to Algiers. Upon the way, they encounter the STENCH agents, the Fat Man and Milchmann (who stole the formula disguised - befitting the English translation of his German name - as a milkman). Unfortunately, the agents' lack of experience results in their contact agent, Carstairs (Jim Dale), being floored in an encounter with the Fat Man.
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