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23 February 1962 (Finland) moreTagline:
A Laugh in every Note !Plot:
A group of students at an elite music school decide to share a flat in order to cut their living costs and have somewhere to practice together... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Carry on musician in the house moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | James Robertson Justice | ... | Sir Benjamin Boyd |
| Leslie Phillips | ... | Mervyn Hughes |
| Paul Massie | ... | Malcolm Stewart |
| Kenneth Williams | ... | Harold Chesney |
| Liz Fraser | ... | Miranda Kennaway |
| Eric Barker | ... | Dr. Morgan Rutherford |
| Jennifer Jayne | ... | Jill Clemons |
| Jimmy Thompson | ... | Alex Spendlove |
| Sid James | ... | Sid (as Sidney James) |
| Esma Cannon | ... | Mrs. Deevens |
| Geoffrey Keen | ... | Sir John |
 | Jill Ireland | ... | Janet |
| Victor Maddern | ... | Removal Man |
| Lance Percival | ... | Harry |
| Joan Hickson | ... | Mrs. Bostwick |
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I feel desperately sorry for every one involved in this film. It might be the only film that has James Robertson Justice crossing swords with Kenneth Williams. And it must have been a good wheeze to squeeze a 'Carry-on' cast into a college plot that could have, with the necessary alterations, been a 'Doctor in the house' film.
The script is written by Bruce Montgomery, film and light music composer (he wrote the original Carry-On theme) but it collapses under the demands of episodic sub-plots that effectively wreck the two main plots- Leslie Philips being taken for a ride by Music publisher Sid James, and the rivalry between the main characters for a music scholarship.
Bright spots? Yes, Esmee Cannon steals the show (again) as a deaf landlady and Eric Barker's mad professor. But that's it. However, we have at least the satisfaction of knowing Montgomery finished the script. At this time he was sliding into alcoholism, trying to live down the huge success of his early detective novels (All of which have yet to be filmed!).