The Carry On troupe in Carry On At Your Convenience take on management/labor relations in a toilet factory. Kenneth Williams is the owner of a plant that manufactures bathroom accessories, toilets, sinks, bathtubs. His designer of these products is Charles Hawtrey and the plant foreman is Sid James. Given the subject matter there are more chances for scatological one liners than is normal even for a Carry On movie. This is after all a necessary industry. Can you imagine our lives without these devices?
Williams gets an order from a rich Arab sheik who wants 1000 special toilets for his thousand wife harem and he wants it with cold and hot running water. Hawtrey designs one and production goes in immediately.
That brings management into conflict with organized labor and the head of toilet workers union played by the officious and mother dominated Kenneth Cope. He's the kind of guy who gets off asserting any kind of authority he has. As shop steward he's forever calling for walkouts and strikes on the least little provocation.
Funniest moment for me was when the workers go on holiday leave in Brighton and the hotel can't serve them because they're kitchen workers are on strike. What a moment that is for Cope to see what it's like with the shoe on the other foot. Sid James makes the most of it.
In fact at the very end of the film Cope is shown to have learned his lesson thoroughly.
Labor and management really do come together in the end. A really funny entry from the Carry On series.
Williams gets an order from a rich Arab sheik who wants 1000 special toilets for his thousand wife harem and he wants it with cold and hot running water. Hawtrey designs one and production goes in immediately.
That brings management into conflict with organized labor and the head of toilet workers union played by the officious and mother dominated Kenneth Cope. He's the kind of guy who gets off asserting any kind of authority he has. As shop steward he's forever calling for walkouts and strikes on the least little provocation.
Funniest moment for me was when the workers go on holiday leave in Brighton and the hotel can't serve them because they're kitchen workers are on strike. What a moment that is for Cope to see what it's like with the shoe on the other foot. Sid James makes the most of it.
In fact at the very end of the film Cope is shown to have learned his lesson thoroughly.
Labor and management really do come together in the end. A really funny entry from the Carry On series.