Carry On Jack

Carry On Jack
Original UK quad poster
Directed byGerald Thomas
Written byTalbot Rothwell
Produced byPeter Rogers
StarringKenneth Williams
Bernard Cribbins
Juliet Mills
Charles Hawtrey
Donald Houston
Cecil Parker
CinematographyAlan Hume
Edited byArchie Ludski
Music byEric Rogers
Production
company
Peter Rogers Productions
Distributed byAnglo-Amalgamated
Warner-Pathé Distributors
Release date
  • 23 February 1964 (1964-02-23)
[1]
Running time
91 mins
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£152,000

Carry On Jack is a 1964 British comedy film, the eighth in the series of 31 Carry On films (1958–1992). Most of the usual Carry On team are missing from this film: only Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtrey appear throughout, with Jim Dale making a cameo appearance as a sedan chair carrier. Bernard Cribbins makes the first of his three appearances in a Carry On. Juliet Mills, Donald Houston and Cecil Parker make their only Carry on appearances in this film. Carry On Jack was the second of the series to be filmed in colour and the first Carry On film with a historical setting and period costumes.

As with its immediate predecessor, the script for Carry on Jack started off as a non-Carry On film (originally entitled Up the Armada) and after a number of title changes was incorporated into the series.[2] The film was followed by Carry On Spying 1964.

  1. ^ "Carry On Jack". Art & Hue. 2018. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  2. ^ Gerrard, Steven (2017) The Carry On Films, Springer, p.35