This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat; eventually everyone has to get fed up with him. This is also the ideal opportunity for lots of lavatorial jokes...
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Good concept, poorly executed.
When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.
Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
I've always regarded 'Carry on at your Convenience' as one of the best in the series. Aside from being full to the brim with lavatorial humour it's also an interesting insight into what life was like back then as far as Unions and workers rights went. Brilliantly filmed at the Royal Doulton factory, a time when the British Potteries were thriving.As for the humour, it contains laugh after laugh, I think the latter part of the film is funnier, when they go on the works outing, the gang look like their having a marvellous time, and as viewers so do we. Kenneth Williams genuinely does steal the film with his W.C. Boggs, and it's the fortune telling scene with Sid and Joan that is the laugh out loud moment. His facial gestures and comical laughs are awesome, what a loss to comedy he was.Great to have all the cast there, it really did make a difference when the entire gang were available, missing of course was Barbara Windsor, but Jackie Piper is lovely as Myrtle.A box office failure, times were different back then, begs the question do Politics and comedy work? Years later the answer is definitely yes!!! It's one of the funniest, 9/10
CARRY ON AT YOUR CONVENIENCE is about industrial disputes at a toilet- making factory. This being a Carry On film you also get sub-plots about a budgie that can pick winning horses and a works outing that includes the shooting up of a rifle range and copious consumption of alcohol. The trademark seaside postcard attitude to sex is on display with trousers (and skirts) being ripped off, much suggestive wordplay, strip poker, bunny girls and some friendly minded sexual harassment by both sexes. The narrative, such as it is, meanders around a factory making toilets (proprietor: W.C. Boggs) which is threatened with closure because of the copious strikes. Most of the plot is taken up with the pursuit of various women by various men (and vice versa) with varying degrees of success. There is even a BRIEF ENCOUNTER-esque ending for Sid James. It's all harmless fluff, gently humorous and, thirty years on, not without historical interest.
Carry on at your convenience is about a factory somewhere in London W C Bloggs they are making toilets and they keep having strikes the workers cannot keep their hands off each other and all mayhem breaks out. They go on the annual works outing to Brighton and have a whale of a time. Sidney Plummer ( Sid James) is also betting on horses much to the annoyance of his wife Beatie Plumer ( Hattie Jacques) who seems to sit at home all day in a house badly in need of cleaning up a kitchen with plates up to the rafters and dirty washing. They have a pet budgie called Joe who never says anything and then Suddenley picks winners out of the newspapers for horses that are going to race and Sid quickly makes it rich. Meanwhile Bernie and Kenneth cope are chasing Myrtle Plumber (Jackie Piper) who is going off with Lewis Bloggs( Richard o Callaghan). Sid is after Joan who lives at home with husband Fred ( Bill Maynard.In the end everything turns out fine the gang have a whale of a time in Brighton and enjoy every minute of it of it. Overall this a great if not the best carry on film ever made Bill Maynard has little screen time but he makes up for it in carry on Matron. Sid is just as great as ever. 10/10. This is what the series where all about fun and lots of it!!!.
This is the Carry On film which took longest to make back its money. It's not difficult to see why as it is so disparaging towards the unions and the typical Carry On fan in the early 70s was working class. If you are going to insult your target audience then don't be surprised to find they don't go to see your film. Having said that the basic storyline has plenty of opportunities for Talbot Rothwell's seaside postcard humour especially as they go on a works outing to Brighton. One of the Carry On films' best points is the way they added those little details so you get a toilet manufacturer called WC Boggs, the foreman's name sounds like plumber, his daughter's name is Myrtle which is a plant that grows in bogs. If I could only buy a budgie like Sid Plummer's I'd be laughing even more.