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	{{Infobox film		{{Infobox film
	~~\| name = Carry On Jack~~
	\| image = Carry On Jack poster.jpg		\| image = Carry On Jack poster.jpg
	\| caption = Original UK quad poster		\| caption = Original UK quad poster
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	\| producer = [[Peter Rogers]]		\| producer = [[Peter Rogers]]
	\| writer = [[Talbot Rothwell]]		\| writer = [[Talbot Rothwell]]
	\| starring = [[Kenneth Williams]]<br>[[w:Bernard Cribbins\|Bernard Cribbins]] <br>[[w:Juliet Mills\|Juliet Mills]]<br>[[Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)\|Charles Hawtrey]]<br>[[Donald Houston]]<br>[[Cecil Parker]]		\| starring = [[Kenneth Williams]]<br>[[Bernard Cribbins\|Bernard Cribbins]] <br>[[Juliet Mills\|Juliet Mills]]<br>[[Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)\|Charles Hawtrey]]<br>[[Donald Houston]]<br>[[Cecil Parker]]
	\| music = [[w:Eric Rogers (composer)\|Eric Rogers]]		\| music = [[Eric Rogers (composer)\|Eric Rogers]]
	\| cinematography = [[w:Alan Hume\|Alan Hume]]		\| cinematography = [[Alan Hume\|Alan Hume]]
	\| editing = Archie Ludski		\| editing = Archie Ludski
	\| studio = Peter Rogers Productions		\| studio = Peter Rogers Productions
	\| distributor = [[w:Anglo-Amalgamated\|Anglo-Amalgamated]]<br>[[w:Associated British Picture Corporation\|Warner-Pathé Distributors]]		\| distributor = [[Anglo-Amalgamated\|Anglo-Amalgamated]]<br>[[Associated British Picture Corporation\|Warner-Pathé Distributors]]
	\| released = {{film date\|1964\|02\|23\|df=yes}}<ref name="Art & Hue">{{cite web\|url=http://artandhue.com/shop/carry-on-jack/\|title=Carry On Jack \|work=Art & Hue \|date=2018 \|accessdate=23 November 2018}}</ref>		\| released = {{film date\|1964\|02\|23\|df=yes}}<ref name="Art & Hue">{{cite web\|url=http://artandhue.com/shop/carry-on-jack/\|title=Carry On Jack \|work=Art & Hue \|date=2018 \|accessdate=23 November 2018}}</ref>
	\| runtime = 91 mins		\| runtime = 91 mins
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	}}		}}

	'''''Carry On Jack''''' is a 1964 [[w:British comedy\|British comedy]] film, the eighth in the [[Carry On (film series)\|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 (actor, born 1914)\|Charles Hawtrey]] appear throughout, with [[w:Jim Dale\|Jim Dale]] making a cameo appearance as a [[w:Sedan (automobile)#Etymology\|sedan chair]] carrier. [[w:Bernard Cribbins\|Bernard Cribbins]] makes the first of his three appearances in a Carry On. [[w:Juliet Mills\|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.		'''''Carry On Jack''''' is a 1964 [[British comedy\|British comedy]] film, the eighth in the [[Carry On (film series)\|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 (actor, born 1914)\|Charles Hawtrey]] appear throughout, with [[Jim Dale\|Jim Dale]] making a cameo appearance as a [[Sedan (automobile)#Etymology\|sedan chair]] carrier. [[Bernard Cribbins\|Bernard Cribbins]] makes the first of his three appearances in a Carry On. [[Juliet Mills\|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.<ref>Gerrard, Steven (2017) ''The Carry On Films'', Springer, p.35</ref>		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.<ref>Gerrard, Steven (2017) ''The Carry On Films'', Springer, p.35</ref>

	==Plot==		==Plot==
	''Carry On Jack'' starts with [[w:Battle of Trafalgar\|the death]] of [[w:Horatio Nelson\|Admiral Horatio Nelson]] ([[Jimmy Thompson (actor)\|Jimmy Thompson]]), whose last words are that Britain needs a bigger navy with more men, followed by his famous request for a kiss to Hardy ([[Anton Rodgers]]). In the main story, Albert Poop-Decker ([[w:Bernard Cribbins\|Bernard Cribbins]]) has taken 8{{frac\|1\|2}} years and still not qualified as [[w:midshipman\|midshipman]], but is promoted by the [[w:First Sea Lord\|First Sea Lord]] ([[Cecil Parker]]) as England needs officers. He is to join the frigate ''[[w:Her Majesty's Ship\|HMS]]'' ''Venus'' at Plymouth. Arriving to find the crew all celebrating as they are sailing tomorrow, he takes a sedan chair with no bottom (so he has to run), carried by a young man and his father ([[w:Jim Dale\|Jim Dale]] and [[w:Ian Wilson (actor)\|Ian Wilson]], respectively) to ''Dirty Dick's'' Tavern.		''Carry On Jack'' starts with [[Battle of Trafalgar\|the death]] of [[Horatio Nelson\|Admiral Horatio Nelson]] ([[Jimmy Thompson (actor)\|Jimmy Thompson]]), whose last words are that Britain needs a bigger navy with more men, followed by his famous request for a kiss to Hardy ([[Anton Rodgers]]). In the main story, Albert Poop-Decker ([[Bernard Cribbins\|Bernard Cribbins]]) has taken 8{{frac\|1\|2}} years and still not qualified as [[midshipman\|midshipman]], but is promoted by the [[First Sea Lord\|First Sea Lord]] ([[Cecil Parker]]) as England needs officers. He is to join the frigate ''[[Her Majesty's Ship\|HMS]]'' ''Venus'' at Plymouth. Arriving to find the crew all celebrating as they are sailing tomorrow, he takes a sedan chair with no bottom (so he has to run), carried by a young man and his father ([[Jim Dale\|Jim Dale]] and [[Ian Wilson (actor)\|Ian Wilson]], respectively) to ''Dirty Dick's'' Tavern.

	Mobbed by women in the tavern as he is holding a [[w:sovereign (British coin)\|sovereign]] aloft (as advised by Dale), he is rescued by serving maid, Sally ([[w:Juliet Mills\|Juliet Mills]]). She wants to go to sea to find her former lodger and childhood sweetheart Roger, but landlord Ned ([[George Woodbridge (actor)\|George Woodbridge]]) has let her down. She finds that Poop-Decker has not reported to the ship yet and is unknown to them, so in a room upstairs she knocks him out and takes his midshipman's uniform.		Mobbed by women in the tavern as he is holding a [[sovereign (British coin)\|sovereign]] aloft (as advised by Dale), he is rescued by serving maid, Sally ([[Juliet Mills\|Juliet Mills]]). She wants to go to sea to find her former lodger and childhood sweetheart Roger, but landlord Ned ([[George Woodbridge (actor)\|George Woodbridge]]) has let her down. She finds that Poop-Decker has not reported to the ship yet and is unknown to them, so in a room upstairs she knocks him out and takes his midshipman's uniform.

	Poop-Decker wakes and dons a dress to cover his long johns, and downstairs, along with a cess pit cleaner named Walter Sweetly ([[Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)\|Charles Hawtrey]]), is kidnapped by a [[Impressment\|press gang]] run by the ''Venus'''s First Officer Lieutenant Jonathan Howett ([[Donald Houston]]) and his bosun, Mr Angel ([[Percy Herbert (actor)\|Percy Herbert]]). They come to when at sea and are introduced to Captain Fearless ([[Kenneth Williams]]). Poop-Decker makes himself known, but there is already a Midshipman Poop-Decker aboard{{spaced ndash}}Sally, in disguise. Poop-Decker, as a hopeless seaman, goes on to continually upset Howett by doing the wrong thing. Sally reveals her true identity to Poop-Decker after he has been punished, and he decides to let things continue as they are. Eventually, in the course of the film Poop-Decker and Sally fall in love with each other.		Poop-Decker wakes and dons a dress to cover his long johns, and downstairs, along with a cess pit cleaner named Walter Sweetly ([[Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)\|Charles Hawtrey]]), is kidnapped by a [[Impressment\|press gang]] run by the ''Venus'''s First Officer Lieutenant Jonathan Howett ([[Donald Houston]]) and his bosun, Mr Angel ([[Percy Herbert (actor)\|Percy Herbert]]). They come to when at sea and are introduced to Captain Fearless ([[Kenneth Williams]]). Poop-Decker makes himself known, but there is already a Midshipman Poop-Decker aboard{{spaced ndash}}Sally, in disguise. Poop-Decker, as a hopeless seaman, goes on to continually upset Howett by doing the wrong thing. Sally reveals her true identity to Poop-Decker after he has been punished, and he decides to let things continue as they are. Eventually, in the course of the film Poop-Decker and Sally fall in love with each other.
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	After three months at sea and no action, the crew are very restless, and when they finally see a Spanish ship, the Captain has them sail away from it. Howett and Angel hatch a plot, making it look like the ship has been boarded by the enemy during a night raid and using Poop-Decker as an expendable dupe to get the Captain leave the ship on his own volition. Poop-Decker, Sweetly and Sally thus help the Captain into a boat, and they leave the ship, but while leaving his cabin, the Captain gets a splinter in his foot, which later goes [[Gangrene\|gangrenous]]. When they reach dry land, Captain Fearless reckons that they are in France and they need only to walk a short distance to reach [[Calais]], while they are actually standing on Spanish soil. Sally and Poop-Decker spot a party of civilians and steal their clothes while they are bathing.		After three months at sea and no action, the crew are very restless, and when they finally see a Spanish ship, the Captain has them sail away from it. Howett and Angel hatch a plot, making it look like the ship has been boarded by the enemy during a night raid and using Poop-Decker as an expendable dupe to get the Captain leave the ship on his own volition. Poop-Decker, Sweetly and Sally thus help the Captain into a boat, and they leave the ship, but while leaving his cabin, the Captain gets a splinter in his foot, which later goes [[Gangrene\|gangrenous]]. When they reach dry land, Captain Fearless reckons that they are in France and they need only to walk a short distance to reach [[Calais]], while they are actually standing on Spanish soil. Sally and Poop-Decker spot a party of civilians and steal their clothes while they are bathing.

	Now in charge of the ship, Howett and Angel sail for [[w:Cadiz\|Cadiz]] and plan on taking it from Don Luis ([[Patrick Cargill]]), the Spanish Governor. They are successful, but their plot is ruined by Poop-Decker's group, who stumble into Cadiz (believing it to be [[w:Le Havre\|Le Havre]]) and recapture the ''Venus''. Sailing back to England, they encounter a pirate ship, whose crew seizes the ''Venus''. The Captain (Patch, played by [[Peter Gilmore]]) turns out to be Sally's lost love Roger, but upon seeing him as a coarse, brutal rogue, she no longer wants to have anything to do with him. In order to force her compliance, Patch and Hook ([[Ed Devereaux]]) try to make Poop-Decker and Fearless [[w:walk the plank\|walk the plank]], but Poop-Decker manages to escape and cut down a sail, which covers the pirates, capturing them.		Now in charge of the ship, Howett and Angel sail for [[Cadiz\|Cadiz]] and plan on taking it from Don Luis ([[Patrick Cargill]]), the Spanish Governor. They are successful, but their plot is ruined by Poop-Decker's group, who stumble into Cadiz (believing it to be [[Le Havre\|Le Havre]]) and recapture the ''Venus''. Sailing back to England, they encounter a pirate ship, whose crew seizes the ''Venus''. The Captain (Patch, played by [[Peter Gilmore]]) turns out to be Sally's lost love Roger, but upon seeing him as a coarse, brutal rogue, she no longer wants to have anything to do with him. In order to force her compliance, Patch and Hook ([[Ed Devereaux]]) try to make Poop-Decker and Fearless [[walk the plank\|walk the plank]], but Poop-Decker manages to escape and cut down a sail, which covers the pirates, capturing them.

	In Cadiz, the former crew of the ''Venus'' are taken to be shot, but escape with five empty Spanish [[w:Man-of-war\|men-of-war]] to England for prize money and glory. They are within sight of England when they encounter the ''Venus''. While Poop-Decker, Sally and Walter are working below decks on cutting off Fearless's badly infected leg, a fire gets out of control on deck and burns a sail, which sets off the ''Venus'''s primed cannons, hitting all five Spanish ships and thus once again thwarting Howett. Poop-Decker and his companions end up at the [[w:British Admiralty\|Admiralty]] as heroes. Fearless, who now has a [[w:pegleg\|pegleg]] is promoted to Admiral and given a desk job. Poop-Decker and Sweetly are given the rank of honorary Captains, with pensions, but Poop-Decker reveals that he is going to leave the service to marry Sally.		In Cadiz, the former crew of the ''Venus'' are taken to be shot, but escape with five empty Spanish [[Man-of-war\|men-of-war]] to England for prize money and glory. They are within sight of England when they encounter the ''Venus''. While Poop-Decker, Sally and Walter are working below decks on cutting off Fearless's badly infected leg, a fire gets out of control on deck and burns a sail, which sets off the ''Venus'''s primed cannons, hitting all five Spanish ships and thus once again thwarting Howett. Poop-Decker and his companions end up at the [[British Admiralty\|Admiralty]] as heroes. Fearless, who now has a [[pegleg\|pegleg]] is promoted to Admiral and given a desk job. Poop-Decker and Sweetly are given the rank of honorary Captains, with pensions, but Poop-Decker reveals that he is going to leave the service to marry Sally.

	==Background==		==Background==

	The overall plot in relation to Sally steals the idea from episode 2 of the British TV series [[w:Sir Francis Drake (TV series)\|"Sir Francis Drake"]] made three years earlier (1961). In this episode a girl (the daughter of a ship's gunner) stows away on Drake's ship dressed as a man.<ref>Sir Francis Drake, episode 2. 1961</ref>		The overall plot in relation to Sally steals the idea from episode 2 of the British TV series [[Sir Francis Drake (TV series)\|"Sir Francis Drake"]] made three years earlier (1961). In this episode a girl (the daughter of a ship's gunner) stows away on Drake's ship dressed as a man.<ref>Sir Francis Drake, episode 2. 1961</ref>

	==Cast==		==Cast==
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	{{Infobox film		{{Infobox film
	\| name = Carry On Jack		\| name = Carry On Jack
	\| image = Carry On Jack ~~(film)~~.jpg		\| image = Carry On Jack poster.jpg
	\| caption = Original UK quad poster		\| caption = Original UK quad poster
	\| director = [[Gerald Thomas]]		\| director = [[Gerald Thomas]]

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	\| writer = [[Talbot Rothwell]]		\| writer = [[Talbot Rothwell]]
	\| starring = [[Kenneth Williams]]<br>[[w:Bernard Cribbins\|Bernard Cribbins]] <br>[[w:Juliet Mills\|Juliet Mills]]<br>[[Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)\|Charles Hawtrey]]<br>[[Donald Houston]]<br>[[Cecil Parker]]		\| starring = [[Kenneth Williams]]<br>[[w:Bernard Cribbins\|Bernard Cribbins]] <br>[[w:Juliet Mills\|Juliet Mills]]<br>[[Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)\|Charles Hawtrey]]<br>[[Donald Houston]]<br>[[Cecil Parker]]
	\| music = [[Eric Rogers (composer)\|Eric Rogers]]		\| music = [[w:Eric Rogers (composer)\|Eric Rogers]]
	\| cinematography = [[w:Alan Hume\|Alan Hume]]		\| cinematography = [[w:Alan Hume\|Alan Hume]]
	\| editing = Archie Ludski		\| editing = Archie Ludski

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	\| starring = [[Kenneth Williams]]<br>[[w:Bernard Cribbins\|Bernard Cribbins]] <br>[[w:Juliet Mills\|Juliet Mills]]<br>[[Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)\|Charles Hawtrey]]<br>[[Donald Houston]]<br>[[Cecil Parker]]		\| starring = [[Kenneth Williams]]<br>[[w:Bernard Cribbins\|Bernard Cribbins]] <br>[[w:Juliet Mills\|Juliet Mills]]<br>[[Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)\|Charles Hawtrey]]<br>[[Donald Houston]]<br>[[Cecil Parker]]
	\| music = [[Eric Rogers (composer)\|Eric Rogers]]		\| music = [[Eric Rogers (composer)\|Eric Rogers]]
	\| cinematography = [[Alan Hume]]		\| cinematography = [[w:Alan Hume\|Alan Hume]]
	\| editing = Archie Ludski		\| editing = Archie Ludski
	\| studio = Peter Rogers Productions		\| studio = Peter Rogers Productions
	\| distributor = [[Anglo-Amalgamated]]<br>[[Associated British Picture Corporation\|Warner-Pathé Distributors]]		\| distributor = [[w:Anglo-Amalgamated\|Anglo-Amalgamated]]<br>[[w:Associated British Picture Corporation\|Warner-Pathé Distributors]]
	\| released = {{film date\|1964\|02\|23\|df=yes}}<ref name="Art & Hue">{{cite web\|url=http://artandhue.com/shop/carry-on-jack/\|title=Carry On Jack \|work=Art & Hue \|date=2018 \|accessdate=23 November 2018}}</ref>		\| released = {{film date\|1964\|02\|23\|df=yes}}<ref name="Art & Hue">{{cite web\|url=http://artandhue.com/shop/carry-on-jack/\|title=Carry On Jack \|work=Art & Hue \|date=2018 \|accessdate=23 November 2018}}</ref>
	\| runtime = 91 mins		\| runtime = 91 mins
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	}}		}}

	'''''Carry On Jack''''' is a 1964 [[British comedy]] film, the eighth in the [[Carry On (film series)\|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 (actor, born 1914)\|Charles Hawtrey]] appear throughout, with [[Jim Dale]] making a cameo appearance as a [[Sedan (automobile)#Etymology\|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.		'''''Carry On Jack''''' is a 1964 [[w:British comedy\|British comedy]] film, the eighth in the [[Carry On (film series)\|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 (actor, born 1914)\|Charles Hawtrey]] appear throughout, with [[w:Jim Dale\|Jim Dale]] making a cameo appearance as a [[w:Sedan (automobile)#Etymology\|sedan chair]] carrier. [[w:Bernard Cribbins\|Bernard Cribbins]] makes the first of his three appearances in a Carry On. [[w:Juliet Mills\|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.<ref>Gerrard, Steven (2017) ''The Carry On Films'', Springer, p.35</ref>		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.<ref>Gerrard, Steven (2017) ''The Carry On Films'', Springer, p.35</ref>

	==Plot==		==Plot==
	''Carry On Jack'' starts with [[Battle of Trafalgar\|the death]] of [[Horatio Nelson\|Admiral Horatio Nelson]] ([[Jimmy Thompson (actor)\|Jimmy Thompson]]), whose last words are that Britain needs a bigger navy with more men, followed by his famous request for a kiss to Hardy ([[Anton Rodgers]]). In the main story, Albert Poop-Decker ([[Bernard Cribbins]]) has taken 8{{frac\|1\|2}} years and still not qualified as [[midshipman]], but is promoted by the [[First Sea Lord]] ([[Cecil Parker]]) as England needs officers. He is to join the frigate ''[[Her Majesty's Ship\|HMS]]'' ''Venus'' at Plymouth. Arriving to find the crew all celebrating as they are sailing tomorrow, he takes a sedan chair with no bottom (so he has to run), carried by a young man and his father ([[Jim Dale]] and [[Ian Wilson (actor)\|Ian Wilson]], respectively) to ''Dirty Dick's'' Tavern.		''Carry On Jack'' starts with [[w:Battle of Trafalgar\|the death]] of [[w:Horatio Nelson\|Admiral Horatio Nelson]] ([[Jimmy Thompson (actor)\|Jimmy Thompson]]), whose last words are that Britain needs a bigger navy with more men, followed by his famous request for a kiss to Hardy ([[Anton Rodgers]]). In the main story, Albert Poop-Decker ([[w:Bernard Cribbins\|Bernard Cribbins]]) has taken 8{{frac\|1\|2}} years and still not qualified as [[w:midshipman\|midshipman]], but is promoted by the [[w:First Sea Lord\|First Sea Lord]] ([[Cecil Parker]]) as England needs officers. He is to join the frigate ''[[w:Her Majesty's Ship\|HMS]]'' ''Venus'' at Plymouth. Arriving to find the crew all celebrating as they are sailing tomorrow, he takes a sedan chair with no bottom (so he has to run), carried by a young man and his father ([[w:Jim Dale\|Jim Dale]] and [[w:Ian Wilson (actor)\|Ian Wilson]], respectively) to ''Dirty Dick's'' Tavern.

	Mobbed by women in the tavern as he is holding a [[sovereign (British coin)\|sovereign]] aloft (as advised by Dale), he is rescued by serving maid, Sally ([[Juliet Mills]]). She wants to go to sea to find her former lodger and childhood sweetheart Roger, but landlord Ned ([[George Woodbridge (actor)\|George Woodbridge]]) has let her down. She finds that Poop-Decker has not reported to the ship yet and is unknown to them, so in a room upstairs she knocks him out and takes his midshipman's uniform.		Mobbed by women in the tavern as he is holding a [[w:sovereign (British coin)\|sovereign]] aloft (as advised by Dale), he is rescued by serving maid, Sally ([[w:Juliet Mills\|Juliet Mills]]). She wants to go to sea to find her former lodger and childhood sweetheart Roger, but landlord Ned ([[George Woodbridge (actor)\|George Woodbridge]]) has let her down. She finds that Poop-Decker has not reported to the ship yet and is unknown to them, so in a room upstairs she knocks him out and takes his midshipman's uniform.

	Poop-Decker wakes and dons a dress to cover his long johns, and downstairs, along with a cess pit cleaner named Walter Sweetly ([[Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)\|Charles Hawtrey]]), is kidnapped by a [[Impressment\|press gang]] run by the ''Venus'''s First Officer Lieutenant Jonathan Howett ([[Donald Houston]]) and his bosun, Mr Angel ([[Percy Herbert (actor)\|Percy Herbert]]). They come to when at sea and are introduced to Captain Fearless ([[Kenneth Williams]]). Poop-Decker makes himself known, but there is already a Midshipman Poop-Decker aboard{{spaced ndash}}Sally, in disguise. Poop-Decker, as a hopeless seaman, goes on to continually upset Howett by doing the wrong thing. Sally reveals her true identity to Poop-Decker after he has been punished, and he decides to let things continue as they are. Eventually, in the course of the film Poop-Decker and Sally fall in love with each other.		Poop-Decker wakes and dons a dress to cover his long johns, and downstairs, along with a cess pit cleaner named Walter Sweetly ([[Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)\|Charles Hawtrey]]), is kidnapped by a [[Impressment\|press gang]] run by the ''Venus'''s First Officer Lieutenant Jonathan Howett ([[Donald Houston]]) and his bosun, Mr Angel ([[Percy Herbert (actor)\|Percy Herbert]]). They come to when at sea and are introduced to Captain Fearless ([[Kenneth Williams]]). Poop-Decker makes himself known, but there is already a Midshipman Poop-Decker aboard{{spaced ndash}}Sally, in disguise. Poop-Decker, as a hopeless seaman, goes on to continually upset Howett by doing the wrong thing. Sally reveals her true identity to Poop-Decker after he has been punished, and he decides to let things continue as they are. Eventually, in the course of the film Poop-Decker and Sally fall in love with each other.
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	After three months at sea and no action, the crew are very restless, and when they finally see a Spanish ship, the Captain has them sail away from it. Howett and Angel hatch a plot, making it look like the ship has been boarded by the enemy during a night raid and using Poop-Decker as an expendable dupe to get the Captain leave the ship on his own volition. Poop-Decker, Sweetly and Sally thus help the Captain into a boat, and they leave the ship, but while leaving his cabin, the Captain gets a splinter in his foot, which later goes [[Gangrene\|gangrenous]]. When they reach dry land, Captain Fearless reckons that they are in France and they need only to walk a short distance to reach [[Calais]], while they are actually standing on Spanish soil. Sally and Poop-Decker spot a party of civilians and steal their clothes while they are bathing.		After three months at sea and no action, the crew are very restless, and when they finally see a Spanish ship, the Captain has them sail away from it. Howett and Angel hatch a plot, making it look like the ship has been boarded by the enemy during a night raid and using Poop-Decker as an expendable dupe to get the Captain leave the ship on his own volition. Poop-Decker, Sweetly and Sally thus help the Captain into a boat, and they leave the ship, but while leaving his cabin, the Captain gets a splinter in his foot, which later goes [[Gangrene\|gangrenous]]. When they reach dry land, Captain Fearless reckons that they are in France and they need only to walk a short distance to reach [[Calais]], while they are actually standing on Spanish soil. Sally and Poop-Decker spot a party of civilians and steal their clothes while they are bathing.

	Now in charge of the ship, Howett and Angel sail for [[Cadiz]] and plan on taking it from Don Luis ([[Patrick Cargill]]), the Spanish Governor. They are successful, but their plot is ruined by Poop-Decker's group, who stumble into Cadiz (believing it to be [[Le Havre]]) and recapture the ''Venus''. Sailing back to England, they encounter a pirate ship, whose crew seizes the ''Venus''. The Captain (Patch, played by [[Peter Gilmore]]) turns out to be Sally's lost love Roger, but upon seeing him as a coarse, brutal rogue, she no longer wants to have anything to do with him. In order to force her compliance, Patch and Hook ([[Ed Devereaux]]) try to make Poop-Decker and Fearless [[walk the plank]], but Poop-Decker manages to escape and cut down a sail, which covers the pirates, capturing them.		Now in charge of the ship, Howett and Angel sail for [[w:Cadiz\|Cadiz]] and plan on taking it from Don Luis ([[Patrick Cargill]]), the Spanish Governor. They are successful, but their plot is ruined by Poop-Decker's group, who stumble into Cadiz (believing it to be [[w:Le Havre\|Le Havre]]) and recapture the ''Venus''. Sailing back to England, they encounter a pirate ship, whose crew seizes the ''Venus''. The Captain (Patch, played by [[Peter Gilmore]]) turns out to be Sally's lost love Roger, but upon seeing him as a coarse, brutal rogue, she no longer wants to have anything to do with him. In order to force her compliance, Patch and Hook ([[Ed Devereaux]]) try to make Poop-Decker and Fearless [[w:walk the plank\|walk the plank]], but Poop-Decker manages to escape and cut down a sail, which covers the pirates, capturing them.

	In Cadiz, the former crew of the ''Venus'' are taken to be shot, but escape with five empty Spanish [[Man-of-war\|men-of-war]] to England for prize money and glory. They are within sight of England when they encounter the ''Venus''. While Poop-Decker, Sally and Walter are working below decks on cutting off Fearless's badly infected leg, a fire gets out of control on deck and burns a sail, which sets off the ''Venus'''s primed cannons, hitting all five Spanish ships and thus once again thwarting Howett. Poop-Decker and his companions end up at the [[British Admiralty\|Admiralty]] as heroes. Fearless, who now has a [[pegleg]] is promoted to Admiral and given a desk job. Poop-Decker and Sweetly are given the rank of honorary Captains, with pensions, but Poop-Decker reveals that he is going to leave the service to marry Sally.		In Cadiz, the former crew of the ''Venus'' are taken to be shot, but escape with five empty Spanish [[w:Man-of-war\|men-of-war]] to England for prize money and glory. They are within sight of England when they encounter the ''Venus''. While Poop-Decker, Sally and Walter are working below decks on cutting off Fearless's badly infected leg, a fire gets out of control on deck and burns a sail, which sets off the ''Venus'''s primed cannons, hitting all five Spanish ships and thus once again thwarting Howett. Poop-Decker and his companions end up at the [[w:British Admiralty\|Admiralty]] as heroes. Fearless, who now has a [[w:pegleg\|pegleg]] is promoted to Admiral and given a desk job. Poop-Decker and Sweetly are given the rank of honorary Captains, with pensions, but Poop-Decker reveals that he is going to leave the service to marry Sally.

	==Background==		==Background==

	The overall plot in relation to Sally steals the idea from episode 2 of the British TV series [[Sir Francis Drake (TV series)\|"Sir Francis Drake"]] made three years earlier (1961). In this episode a girl (the daughter of a ship's gunner) stows away on Drake's ship dressed as a man.<ref>Sir Francis Drake, episode 2. 1961</ref>		The overall plot in relation to Sally steals the idea from episode 2 of the British TV series [[w:Sir Francis Drake (TV series)\|"Sir Francis Drake"]] made three years earlier (1961). In this episode a girl (the daughter of a ship's gunner) stows away on Drake's ship dressed as a man.<ref>Sir Francis Drake, episode 2. 1961</ref>

	==Cast==		==Cast==

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{{Infobox film
| name = Carry On Jack
| image = Carry On Jack (film).jpg
| caption = Original UK quad poster
| director = [[Gerald Thomas]]
| producer = [[Peter Rogers]]
| writer = [[Talbot Rothwell]]
| starring = [[Kenneth Williams]] [[Bernard Cribbins]] [[Juliet Mills]] [[Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)|Charles Hawtrey]] [[Donald Houston]] [[Cecil Parker]]
| music = [[Eric Rogers (composer)|Eric Rogers]]
| cinematography = [[Alan Hume]]
| editing = Archie Ludski
| studio = Peter Rogers Productions
| distributor = [[Anglo-Amalgamated]] [[Associated British Picture Corporation|Warner-Pathé Distributors]]
| released = {{film date|1964|02|23|df=yes}}<ref name="Art & Hue">{{cite web|url=http://artandhue.com/shop/carry-on-jack/|title=Carry On Jack |work=Art & Hue |date=2018 |accessdate=23 November 2018}}</ref>
| runtime = 91 mins
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget = £152,000
}}

'''''Carry On Jack''''' is a 1964 [[British comedy]] film, the eighth in the [[Carry On (film series)|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 (actor, born 1914)|Charles Hawtrey]] appear throughout, with [[Jim Dale]] making a cameo appearance as a [[Sedan (automobile)#Etymology|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.<ref>Gerrard, Steven (2017) ''The Carry On Films'', Springer, p.35</ref>

==Plot==
''Carry On Jack'' starts with [[Battle of Trafalgar|the death]] of [[Horatio Nelson|Admiral Horatio Nelson]] ([[Jimmy Thompson (actor)|Jimmy Thompson]]), whose last words are that Britain needs a bigger navy with more men, followed by his famous request for a kiss to Hardy ([[Anton Rodgers]]). In the main story, Albert Poop-Decker ([[Bernard Cribbins]]) has taken 8{{frac|1|2}} years and still not qualified as [[midshipman]], but is promoted by the [[First Sea Lord]] ([[Cecil Parker]]) as England needs officers. He is to join the frigate ''[[Her Majesty's Ship|HMS]]'' ''Venus'' at Plymouth. Arriving to find the crew all celebrating as they are sailing tomorrow, he takes a sedan chair with no bottom (so he has to run), carried by a young man and his father ([[Jim Dale]] and [[Ian Wilson (actor)|Ian Wilson]], respectively) to ''Dirty Dick's'' Tavern.

Mobbed by women in the tavern as he is holding a [[sovereign (British coin)|sovereign]] aloft (as advised by Dale), he is rescued by serving maid, Sally ([[Juliet Mills]]). She wants to go to sea to find her former lodger and childhood sweetheart Roger, but landlord Ned ([[George Woodbridge (actor)|George Woodbridge]]) has let her down. She finds that Poop-Decker has not reported to the ship yet and is unknown to them, so in a room upstairs she knocks him out and takes his midshipman's uniform.

Poop-Decker wakes and dons a dress to cover his long johns, and downstairs, along with a cess pit cleaner named Walter Sweetly ([[Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)|Charles Hawtrey]]), is kidnapped by a [[Impressment|press gang]] run by the ''Venus'''s First Officer Lieutenant Jonathan Howett ([[Donald Houston]]) and his bosun, Mr Angel ([[Percy Herbert (actor)|Percy Herbert]]). They come to when at sea and are introduced to Captain Fearless ([[Kenneth Williams]]). Poop-Decker makes himself known, but there is already a Midshipman Poop-Decker aboard{{spaced ndash}}Sally, in disguise. Poop-Decker, as a hopeless seaman, goes on to continually upset Howett by doing the wrong thing. Sally reveals her true identity to Poop-Decker after he has been punished, and he decides to let things continue as they are. Eventually, in the course of the film Poop-Decker and Sally fall in love with each other.

After three months at sea and no action, the crew are very restless, and when they finally see a Spanish ship, the Captain has them sail away from it. Howett and Angel hatch a plot, making it look like the ship has been boarded by the enemy during a night raid and using Poop-Decker as an expendable dupe to get the Captain leave the ship on his own volition. Poop-Decker, Sweetly and Sally thus help the Captain into a boat, and they leave the ship, but while leaving his cabin, the Captain gets a splinter in his foot, which later goes [[Gangrene|gangrenous]]. When they reach dry land, Captain Fearless reckons that they are in France and they need only to walk a short distance to reach [[Calais]], while they are actually standing on Spanish soil. Sally and Poop-Decker spot a party of civilians and steal their clothes while they are bathing.

Now in charge of the ship, Howett and Angel sail for [[Cadiz]] and plan on taking it from Don Luis ([[Patrick Cargill]]), the Spanish Governor. They are successful, but their plot is ruined by Poop-Decker's group, who stumble into Cadiz (believing it to be [[Le Havre]]) and recapture the ''Venus''. Sailing back to England, they encounter a pirate ship, whose crew seizes the ''Venus''. The Captain (Patch, played by [[Peter Gilmore]]) turns out to be Sally's lost love Roger, but upon seeing him as a coarse, brutal rogue, she no longer wants to have anything to do with him. In order to force her compliance, Patch and Hook ([[Ed Devereaux]]) try to make Poop-Decker and Fearless [[walk the plank]], but Poop-Decker manages to escape and cut down a sail, which covers the pirates, capturing them.

In Cadiz, the former crew of the ''Venus'' are taken to be shot, but escape with five empty Spanish [[Man-of-war|men-of-war]] to England for prize money and glory. They are within sight of England when they encounter the ''Venus''. While Poop-Decker, Sally and Walter are working below decks on cutting off Fearless's badly infected leg, a fire gets out of control on deck and burns a sail, which sets off the ''Venus'''s primed cannons, hitting all five Spanish ships and thus once again thwarting Howett. Poop-Decker and his companions end up at the [[British Admiralty|Admiralty]] as heroes. Fearless, who now has a [[pegleg]] is promoted to Admiral and given a desk job. Poop-Decker and Sweetly are given the rank of honorary Captains, with pensions, but Poop-Decker reveals that he is going to leave the service to marry Sally.

==Background==

The overall plot in relation to Sally steals the idea from episode 2 of the British TV series [[Sir Francis Drake (TV series)|"Sir Francis Drake"]] made three years earlier (1961). In this episode a girl (the daughter of a ship's gunner) stows away on Drake's ship dressed as a man.<ref>Sir Francis Drake, episode 2. 1961</ref>

==Cast==
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*[[Kenneth Williams]] as Captain Fearless
*[[Bernard Cribbins]] as Midshipman Albert Poop-Decker
*[[Juliet Mills]] as Sally
*[[Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)|Charles Hawtrey]] as Walter Sweetley
*[[Percy Herbert (actor)|Percy Herbert]] as Mr Angel
*[[Donald Houston]] as First Officer Jonathan Howett
*[[Jim Dale]] as Carrier
*[[Cecil Parker]] as First Sealord
*[[Patrick Cargill]] as Spanish Governor
*[[Ed Devereaux]] as Hook
*[[Peter Gilmore]] as Patch
*[[George Woodbridge (actor)|George Woodbridge]] as Ned
*[[Ian Wilson (actor)|Ian Wilson]] as Ancient carrier
*[[Jimmy Thompson (actor)|Jimmy Thompson]] as Nelson
*[[Anton Rodgers]] as Hardy
*[[Michael Nightingale]] as Town Crier
*Frank Forsyth as Second Sealord
*John Brooking as Third Sealord
*[[Barrie Gosney]] as Coach driver
*Jan Mazurus as Spanish Captain
*Viviane Ventura as Spanish secretary
*[[Marianne Stone]] as Peg
*[[Sally Douglas]] as Girl at Dirty Dicks (uncredited)
*[[Dorinda Stevens]] as Girl at Dirty Dicks (uncredited)
*Jennifer Hill as Girl at Dirty Dicks (uncredited)
*Rosemary Manley as Girl at Dirty Dicks (uncredited)
*Dominique Don as Girl at Dirty Dicks (uncredited)
*Marian Collins as Girl at Dirty Dicks (uncredited)
*Jean Hamilton as Girl at Dirty Dicks (uncredited)
{{div col end}}

==Crew==
*Screenplay{{spaced ndash}}[[Talbot Rothwell]]
*Music{{spaced ndash}}[[Eric Rogers (composer)|Eric Rogers]]
*Art Director{{spaced ndash}}Jack Shampan
*Director of Photography{{spaced ndash}}[[Alan Hume]]
*Editor{{spaced ndash}}Archie Ludski
*Associate Producer{{spaced ndash}}[[Frank Bevis]]
*Assistant Director{{spaced ndash}}[[Anthony Waye]]
*Camera Operator{{spaced ndash}}Godfrey Godar
*Sound Editor{{spaced ndash}}Christopher Lancaster
*Sound Recordist{{spaced ndash}}[[Bill Daniels]]
*Unit Manager{{spaced ndash}}Donald Toms
*Make-up Artists{{spaced ndash}}Geoffrey Rodway & Jim Hydes
*Continuity{{spaced ndash}}[[Penny Daniels]]
*Hairdressing{{spaced ndash}}Olga Angelinetta
*Costume Designer{{spaced ndash}}Joan Ellacott
*Technical Advisor{{spaced ndash}}[[Ian Cox]]
*Producer{{spaced ndash}}[[Peter Rogers]]
*Director{{spaced ndash}}[[Gerald Thomas]]

==Filming and locations==

*Filming dates: 2 September{{spaced ndash}}26 October 1963

'''Interiors''':
* [[Pinewood Studios]], Buckinghamshire

'''Exteriors''':
* [[Frensham Common|Frensham Pond]]. The background to the scenes with ''HMS Venus'' on fire and "firing" on the other ships is [[Kimmeridge Bay]], Dorset.

==Bibliography==
*{{Cite book |last=Davidson |first=Andy |title=Carry On Confidential |publisher=Miwk |location=London |year=2012 |isbn=978-1908630018 }}
*{{Cite book |last=Sheridan |first=Simon |title=Keeping the British End Up – Four Decades of Saucy Cinema |publisher=Titan Books |location=London |year=2011 |isbn=978-0857682796 }}
*{{Cite book |last=Webber |first=Richard |title=50 Years of Carry On |publisher=Arrow |location=London |year=2009 |isbn=978-0099490074 }}
*{{Cite book |last=Hudis |first=Norman |title=No Laughing Matter |publisher=Apex |location=London |year=2008 |isbn=978-1906358150 }}
*''Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema'' by Simon Sheridan (third edition) (2007) (Reynolds & Hearn Books)
*{{Cite book |last=Ross |first=Robert |title=The Carry On Companion |publisher=Batsford |location=London |year=2002 |isbn=978-0713487718 }}
*{{Cite book |last1=Bright|first1=Morris | last2=Ross |first2=Robert |title=Mr Carry On – The Life & Work of Peter Rogers |publisher=BBC Books |location=London |year=2000 |isbn=978-0563551836 }}
*{{Cite book |last=Rigelsford |first=Adrian |title=Carry On Laughing – a celebration |publisher=Virgin |location=London |year=1996 |isbn=1-85227-554-5 }}
*{{Cite book |last=Hibbin |first=Sally & Nina |title=What a Carry On |publisher=Hamlyn |location=London |year=1988 |isbn=978-0600558194 }}
*{{Cite book |last=Eastaugh |first=Kenneth |title=The Carry On Book |publisher=David & Charles |location=London |year=1978 |isbn=978-0715374030 }}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0057919}}

{{Carry On Films}}
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