Carry on Don't Lose Your Head (1967) YIFY - Download Movie TORRENT

Dandy fop Sir Rodney Effing has an alter ego, The Black Fingernail. A man, who along with his partner, Lord Darcy Pue, rescue French aristocrats from the clutches of the revolutionary police chief, Citizen Camembert.Carry On producer Peter Rogers had severed his links with Anglo Amalgamated and swiftly signed up with Rank Organisation. Miffed at losing their number one cash franchise, and no doubt with a touch of petulance, Anglo's brass refused Rogers permission to using the "Carry On" prefix. Thus this picture was initially released as just "Don't Lose Your Head" in 1966. Eventually common sense prevailed, and this rightly became known as the 13th franchise entry as "Carry On Don't Lose Your Head" {tho the American release of it being called "Carry On Pimpernel" makes better sense one feels}.Spoofing The Scarlet Pimpernel legacy with a ream of innuendo and double entendre's, the Carry On team deliver one of the better efforts from the series. This is in the main down to Talbot Rothwell's screenplay. Rothwell wrote the screenplay for 20 of the series efforts, he was someone who director and producer both trusted, and crucially that the cast also had faith in. Here his writing is excellent, if of course you be a fan of the saucy shenanigans that came with this particular part of British cinema that is? With characters called Citizen Camembert {refered to as the big cheese, get it?}, Duc de Pommfrit, Citizen Bidet and Sir Rodney Effing {yes that's two F's}, Rothwell lets loose with wave after wave of cheeky dialogue, all delivered with comic aplomb from the likes of Sid James, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Jim Dale and the undervalued Peter Butterworth.There's also a real good production from Rogers. Armed with £200,000, Rogers assembled a fine wardrobe of period costumes and hired out Clandon Hall, Cliveden House and Waddesdon Manor to give the story its 18th Century feel. It's also a film that asks of its stalwarts to do a little bit more than just say risqué lines and act the goat. Oh it's all still gaudy and simple in premise, for sure, but some nice swordplay and derring-do from the boys shouldn't go unnoticed. It of course is just like most of the others they made, a cheeky romp, but to me it's proof positive that the "Carry On" series had some crackers mixed in with the dregs. Sit back and romp with the rompers I say. 7.5/10

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Reviewed by DanTheMan2150AD 7 / 10

A very backward lot

Marking a distinct production change from the first twelve and originally released without the iconic prefix, Don't Lose Your Head sees the team raising a hearty two-fingered salute to Madame Guillotine and the entire kingdom of France. A gloriously vulgar romp, the script is rife with iconic wordplay, puns, one-liners and patented double entendres. The film is easily one of the most lavish of the series, a trait that tends to be shared with most historical Carry Ons, with some excellent production values; the sets and costumes belie the low budget. More plot-heavy than most the story drives the narrative rather than the gags, in this sense, it is a more specific parody than the broader joke-led scripts of many other films. Bolstered by a unique style of swordplay in a prolonged swashbuckling finale amongst the general saucy mayhem, Don't Lose Your Head benefits from a cast on top form having the best of times as they carry on chopping their way through history, almost playing like a feature-length episode of Blackadder the Third.

Reviewed by hitchcockthelegend 7 / 10

Carry on Don't Lose Your Head

1967

Action / Adventure / Comedy

Carry on Don't Lose Your Head

1967

Action / Adventure / Comedy

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A very backward lot

Scarlet Pimpernel, ooh I say madame

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