Don't Lose Your Head (1966)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Gerald Thomas

Writer:

Talbot Rothwell (screenplay)

Release Date:

20 July 1970 (Denmark)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy

Tagline:

Carry On laughing until you have hysterics, but...Don't Lose Your Head!

Plot:

The time of the French revolution, and Citizen Robespierre is beheading the French aristocracy. When word gets to England...

Plot Keywords:

French Revolution | Carry On | Guillotine | Scarlet Pimpernel | Swashbuckler

Cast

Sid James	...	Sir Rodney Ffing / The Black Fingernail (as Sidney James)
Kenneth Williams	...	Citizen Camembert
Jim Dale	...	Lord Darcy Pue
Charles Hawtrey	...	Duc de Pommfrit
Peter Butterworth	...	Citizen Bidet
Joan Sims	...	Désirée Dubarry
Dany Robin	...	Jacqueline
Peter Gilmore	...	Citizen Robespierre
Marianne Stone	...	Landlady
Michael Ward	...	Henri
Leon Greene	...	Malabonce
David Davenport	...	Sergeant
Richard Shaw	...	Captain of Soldiers
Valerie Van Ost	...	Second Lady / Girl at Execution
Jennifer Clulow	...	First Lady

Also Known As:

Carry On: Don't Lose Your Head (UK) (reissue title)
Carry on Don't Lose Your Head (UK) (reissue title)
Carry on Pimpernel (USA)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:L | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) (1987)

Filming Locations:

Black Park, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Adder

Trivia:

The director, Gerald Thomas allowed three rehearsals on the set.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): After the duel in the Garden of Fragrance, Sir Rodney asks Pommfrit where the Bastille is. But he had in fact been there earlier in the film, masquerading as a soldier, so he should already know where it is.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Narrator: Paris, 1789. The Great Revolution has begun. The hands of the masses are smeared with the blood of the poor bleeding aristocracy. Every day the tumbrels run a regular half-hour service between the Bastille and the many guillotines around the city. The growing mounds of noble heads are only matched by the growing mounds of unused return tickets...

Movie Connections:

Featured in Carry on Snogging (1998) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Don't Lose Your Head

good movie

Carry on don't lose your head is based on great scarlet pimpernel story from 19th century France. It is performed by the carry on team and is one of the carry on historical setting films of the 1960s like carry on cleo and up the Khyber. It is regarded as one of the strong carry ons of series. One half of the carry on team is on one side, the other half is on other. Sid james stars as scarlet pimpernel pitted against kenneth williams as french authorities pursuing citizen bidet. There are big sets used for film such as mansion where fancy dress ball held with dancing, posh costumes and jokes between sid james, kenneth williams and joan sims as sid james pretends to be an aristocrat. Other memorable sets are sunrise big gardens duel between sid james and authority enemy charles hawtrey and the public guillotining of criminals in France which the scarlet pimpernel hoping to avoid