Carry On Up the Jungle (1970) @ EOFFTV


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	Carry On Up the Jungle (1970) Country of Origin: UK Year of Production: 1970 Running Times: 89 mins Length: 2443 metres Format: colour 35mm Ratio: Sound: CREDITS PRODUCTION Production Company: The Rank Organisation presents a Peter Rogers production Copyright: © Rank Film Distributors Limited MCMLXX Produced by: Peter Rogers Production Manager: Jack Swinburne SCRIPT Screenplay by: Talbot Rothwell DIRECTION Directed by: Gerald Thomas Assistant Director: Jack Causey PHOTOGRAPHY Director of Photography: Ernest Steward Camera Operator: James Bawden EDITING Editor: Alfred Roome MUSIC Music Composed and Conducted by: Eric Rogers SOUND Sound Recordists: R.T. MacPhee, Ken Barker Dubbing Editor: Colin Miller MAKE-UP AND COSTUMES Make-Up: Geoffrey Rodway Hairdresser: Stella Rivers Costume Designer: Courteney Elliott VISUAL EFFECTS Titles: General Screen Enterprises Ltd. DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION Art Director: Vetchinsky OTHER SOURCES Continuity: Josephine Knowles LOCATIONS Made at Pinewood Studios, London, England CAST Starring Frankie Howerd (Professor Inigo Tinkle) Sidney James (Bill Boosey) Charles Hawtrey (Tonka/Walter Bagley) Joan Sims (Lady Evelyn Bagley) Terry Scott (Jungle Boy (Ug)) Kenneth Connor (Claude Chumley) Bernard Bresslaw (Upsidasi) With Jacki Piper (June) Valerie Leon (Leda) Reuben Martin (gorilla) Edwina Carroll (Nerda) Valerie Moore, Cathi March (Lubi lieutenants) Danny Daniels (Nosha chief) Uncredited Yemi Ajibadi (witch doctor) Nina Baden-Semper (a Nosha) Heather Emmanuel (pregnant Lubi) John Hamilton, Willie Jonah, Chris Konyils, Roy Stewart (natives) Verna Lucille MacKenzie (gong Lubi) Lincoln Webb (Nosha with girl) PLOT SUMMARY Lady Evelyn Bagley finances an expedition into the African jungles in search of her long lost son. The expedition is led by Bill Boosey, a hunter and guide, and includes among their number Professor Tinkle who is looking for the near-mythical Oozalum bird. Things soon start to go wrong - Lady Evelyn's son, now a Tarzan-like ape-man, abducts a young woman, a gorilla wreaks havoc in the camp and the men get their hopes up when they are captured by a tribe of beautiful women from the lost world of Aphrodisia! CAPSULE REVIEW Not the absolute best of the Carry On series but the gags are as corny as ever, the cast are fabulous and the Tarzan parody is pretty much spot-on. The chief problem is that there are so many clichés the writers could use that they succumbed to temptation and tried to cram in as many as possible. Still, there are some good jokes - though none as memorable as those in Carry on Cleo (1964) or Up the Khyber (1968)) - and Frankie Howerd is worth the price of admission alone. POSTER TAGS The Carry On team in starkest Africa ALTERNATIVE TITLES Carry On Jungleboy - working title Carry On Up the Congo Carry on - Die total verrnckte Konigin der Amazonen - German title På äventyr i Afrika - Swedish title TIMELINE 2006 December 24: UK - television broadcast (on UK TV Gold/UK TV Gold + 1) LINKS SEE ALSO Carry On Spying (1964) Carry On Cleo (1964) Carry On Screaming! (1966) Follow That Camel (1967) Carry On Up the Khyber (1968) Carry On at Your Convenience (1971) FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN That's Carry On (1977) REFERENCES MAGAZINES TV Times 26 August - 1 September 1989 p.26 review BOOKS Elliot's Guide to Films on Video p.130 credits, review Reference Guide to Fantastic Films p.57 credits OTHER SOURCES screen credits KEYWORDS carry on, jungles, tarzan, lost worlds, amazons, apes, gorillas, sequels Last Updated: 15 October, 2008