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Carry On Spying (1964)

06/01/1964 Comedy 1h 27m
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6.2/10
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Cloak And Dagger Operations Exposed. Secret Agent Charlie Bind O.O.O.H! Takes The Lid Off The Funniest Spy Story Of The Year!

Overview

Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and Charlie Bind, aided and abetted by the comely Agent Honeybutt and Agent Crump, battle against the evil powers of international bad guys STENCH and their three cronies.

Gerald Thomas

Director

Talbot Rothwell

Screenplay

Sid Colin

Screenplay

Part of the Carry On Collection

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Top Billed Cast

Kenneth Williams

Kenneth Williams

Desmond Simkins

Barbara Windsor

Barbara Windsor

Daphne Honeybutt

Bernard Cribbins

Bernard Cribbins

Harold Crump

Charles Hawtrey

Charles Hawtrey

Charlie Bind

Eric Barker

Eric Barker

The Chief

Dilys Laye

Dilys Laye

Lila

Jim Dale

Jim Dale

Carstairs

Richard Wattis

Richard Wattis

Cobley

Eric Pohlmann

Eric Pohlmann

The Fat Man

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written on July 1, 2015

I expected you to be a man... or a woman.

The 9th in the Carry On series, and the last to be filmed in black and white, is one of the best. It finds the gang kind of biting the hand that feeds them, Pinewood. The home of James Bond was also the home of the Carry On mob, so with Peter Rogers, Gerald Thomas and Talbot Rothwell spying an opportunity to spoof 007, they did so, whilst also revelling in the chance for some film noir dalliances, notably The Third Man.

The cast is this time headed up by Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor (making her Carry On debut), Bernard Cribbins and Charles Hawtrey. They are four less than stellar operatives for British Intelligence tasked with retrieving a top secret formula that has been stolen by STENCH. During their mission they are helped by Carstair...

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written on April 25, 2024

The world is at the mercy of "STENCH" - a criminal entity set up to rid the world of something or other. Scraping the bottom of his agency barrel, the chief of MI6 must depend on the hapless "Simkins" (Kenneth Williams) to retrieve the situation and so together with his triplet of inexperienced trainees, they have to thwart the evil intentions of the menacing "Dr. Crow" (think of a larger version of Rosa Klebb). As you'd expect, the rest of this parodies just about everything from the "Man from U.N.C.L.E." to "007" via "The Third Man" - we even have some zithering! Along the way, a bit of romance blossoms as "Crump" (Bernard Cribbins) falls head over heels for "Honeybutt" (a first outing for Barbara Windsor) - she has a photographic memory too! Finally, a denouement in Vienna is going to t...

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