Kenneth Williams plays W. C. Boggs, the troubled owner of a small company trying to manufacture fine toiletware. Bolshy unionist Vic Spanner (Kenneth Cope) soon has the workforce out on strike and it's down to Boggs, his son Lewis (Richard O'Callaghan), works foreman Sid Plummer (Sid James) and floral-shirted designer Charles Coote (Charles Hawtrey) to rally the troops. But they soon discover that nothing sends you further round the bend than women scorned!
A rather low-key Carry in that us full of lavatorial humour and some saucy jokes, though it all comes across subdued and lacks that humorous punch prevalent in other entries. There's more of a realistic tone with elements of grittiness; the caricatural type of characters Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey and Sid James usually play are toned down. There's some political elements here, touching upon Union strikes, mirroring what was going on in the early 1970's. It pokes fun at union members and strikes, hence alienated the Carry on audience who were mainly working class. Certainly this isn't the best Carry on, however it's amusing and the cast makes it watchable. The seaside trip is the best part, harking back to a time now gone. It works as a nice nostalgic look to how Britain in the 1970's was.
A rather low-key Carry in that us full of lavatorial humour and some saucy jokes, though it all comes across subdued and lacks that humorous punch prevalent in other entries. There's more of a realistic tone with elements of grittiness; the caricatural type of characters Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey and Sid James usually play are toned down. There's some political elements here, touching upon Union strikes, mirroring what was going on in the early 1970's. It pokes fun at union members and strikes, hence alienated the Carry on audience who were mainly working class. Certainly this isn't the best Carry on, however it's amusing and the cast makes it watchable. The seaside trip is the best part, harking back to a time now gone. It works as a nice nostalgic look to how Britain in the 1970's was.