Carry On Girls
[DVD]

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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION The 'Carry On ' team send up the 'Women's Lib' movement in this outing. Sid Fidler (Sid James) convinces Fircombe council to hold a beauty contest, but the local women's lib action group opposes the idea. With Joan Sims, Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Connor and June Whitfield. FROM AMAZON.CO.UK Carry On Girls was the last really successful film in the epic series of British film comedies. It's studded with gems of cameo performances and boasts a tremendously innuendo-laden Talbot Rothwell script which is easily the equal of any of its predecessors. The setting, a beauty contest to raise the profile of the dismal resort Fircombe-on-Sea, is ripe for politically incorrect activity of the sort that could only be conducted by Sid James at the height of his lecherous powers. Enter Bernard Bresslaw in a corset, Wendy Richard as Ida Downs, Barbara Windsor as Miss Easy Rider and a host of other semi-clad lovelies and watch as the whole thing rises to a slapstick climax of frisky old colonels, bikinis, bosoms and itching powder. In the smaller roles, Joan Hickson (BBC television's Miss Marple) is hilarious as an elderly woman who believes she is a man-magnet, and the always under-used Patsy Rowlands excels as the downtrodden mayor's wife, a worm who finally turns. But in many ways this is June Whitfield's film: as the terrifying reactionary councillor Mrs Prodworthy, with a butch lesbian sidekick, she plots the downfall of her male colleagues with classic lines. "Rosemary, get the candle", she orders as Patsy Rowlands requests initiation. --Piers Ford FROM THE BACK COVER The Carry On team delve into the sex and scandal of beauty contests when town councillor Sidney Fiddler (Sid James) attracts a bevy of babes to the quiet, rain-sodden seaside resort of Fircombe. Sid’s problems soon start with the arrival of glamorous biker, Miss Easy Rider (Barbara Windsor) and her busty rival Miss Dawn Brakes (Margaret Nolan). Befuddled Mayor, Frederick Bumble (Kenneth Connor) continually loses his dignity and his trousers, while some red-hot controversy appears in the seductive form of Peter Potter (Bernard Bresslaw): Britain’s first beauty drag queen! The Jokes are bigger, better and bouncier than ever before. When the Carry On gang go in for beauty contests they come up with a winner! See more

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