Carry on Dick (1974)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Gerald Thomas

Writers:

George Evans (treatment)
Talbot Rothwell (screenplay)

Release Date:

July 1974 (UK)

Genre:

Adventure | Comedy

Tagline:

Dick Turpin carries on with his flintlock cocked

Plot:

Dick Turpin is terrorising the countryside around Upper Dencher. Captain Fancey and Sergeant Jock Strapp plan to put an end to his escapades...

Plot Keywords:

Male Impersonation | Carry On | Topless Woman | Historical | Female Nudity

Cast

Sid James	...	Big Dick Turpin a.k.a. Reverend Flasher (as Sidney James)
Barbara Windsor	...	Harriet
Kenneth Williams	...	Captain Desmond Fancey
Hattie Jacques	...	Martha Hoggett
Bernard Bresslaw	...	Sir Roger Daley
Joan Sims	...	Madame Desirée
Kenneth Connor	...	Constable
Peter Butterworth	...	Tom
Jack Douglas	...	Sergeant Jock Strapp
Patsy Rowlands	...	Mrs. Giles
Bill Maynard	...	Bodkin
Margaret Nolan	...	Lady Daley
John Clive	...	Isaac the Tailor
David Lodge	...	Bullock
Marianne Stone	...	Maggie

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:L | South Africa:(Banned) (original release) | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) | Australia:G (VHS rating) | Australia:PG (re-rating)

Filming Locations:

Black Park, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Rank Organisation, The

Trivia:

The film was banned in South Africa in the 1970s as the South African authorities considered it anti-Christian.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Dick Turpin teaches Harriet to count, his coat keeps on vanishing.

Quotes:

Lady Daley: All this talk of Big Dick. I've had enough of it!

Movie Connections:

Follows 'Carry on Constable' (1960)

Rather limp, not a classic

Rather routine, non-stop inuendos but really quite innocent. Like many comedies a bit too carried away with the plot. I think the team were past their best. Barbara Windsor and Sid James strangely subdued. Kenneth Williams works hard but to no avail.