My second favourite of the long running franchise signalled the departure from many facets that made the series so enduring in the U.K. for well over a decade.
In that I mean the primary "team" are all here together for perhaps the final time. The cast look like they are having as much fun as I was watching.
The film marked the final appearance of series veteran Charles Hawtrey whose sad demise into alcoholism is parodied by his character.
The plot concerns a four day mini-break to a Spanish holiday island, Elsbels.
At the time of release in 1972, package holidays abroad were becoming more popular amongst the British.
Trouble is the hotel isn't complete and is seriously understaffed!
Plenty of jokes, some sexist and overtly homophobic characterisation by modern standards.
The typical budgetary constraints on Carry On productions are evident such as a gasometer in shot behind Elsbels airport and the cast 'sunbathing' in a Pinewood Studios carpark!
From here the series was never the same and slowly died.
I've often thought could the series be rekindled with current day 'comic' actors and I don't think it could.
In that I mean the primary "team" are all here together for perhaps the final time. The cast look like they are having as much fun as I was watching.
The film marked the final appearance of series veteran Charles Hawtrey whose sad demise into alcoholism is parodied by his character.
The plot concerns a four day mini-break to a Spanish holiday island, Elsbels.
At the time of release in 1972, package holidays abroad were becoming more popular amongst the British.
Trouble is the hotel isn't complete and is seriously understaffed!
Plenty of jokes, some sexist and overtly homophobic characterisation by modern standards.
The typical budgetary constraints on Carry On productions are evident such as a gasometer in shot behind Elsbels airport and the cast 'sunbathing' in a Pinewood Studios carpark!
From here the series was never the same and slowly died.
I've often thought could the series be rekindled with current day 'comic' actors and I don't think it could.