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{{Infobox film
| name = Don't Panic Chaps!
| image = "Don't_Panic_Chaps!"_(1959).png
| alt =
| caption = Original British quad poster
| director = [[George Pollock (director)|George Pollock]]
| producer = Teddy Baird
| writer = Michael Corston [[Jack Davies (screenwriter)|Jack Davies]] Ronald Holroyd
| starring = [[Dennis Price]] [[George Cole (actor)|George Cole]] [[Thorley Walters]]
| music = [[Philip Green (composer)|Philip Green]]
| cinematography = Arthur Graham
| editing = Harry Aldous
| studio = [[Association of Cinematograph Television and Allied Technicians#Act Films Ltd|Act Films Ltd]] [[Hammer Film Productions]]
| distributor = [[Columbia Pictures Corporation]] (UK)
| released = November 1959 (UK)
| runtime = 85 minutes
| country = UK
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
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'''''Don't Panic Chaps!''''' is a 1959 [[UK|British]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[George Pollock (director)|George Pollock]] and starring [[Dennis Price]], [[George Cole (actor)|George Cole]], [[Thorley Walters]] and [[Terence Alexander]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6a91e3a8|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120713174837/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6a91e3a8|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-13|title=Don't Panic Chaps (1959) - BFI|work=BFI}}</ref> The film was produced by Teddy Baird for [[Association of Cinematograph Television and Allied Technicians#Act Films Ltd|ACT Films]].<ref>Action! Fifty Years in the Life of a Union. Published: 1983 (UK). Publisher: ACTT. {{ISBN|0 9508993 0 5}}. ACT Films Limited - Ralph Bond p81 (producer listed as Teddy Baird)</ref> Originally called ''Carry On Chaps'', the title was changed following the success of the ''"[[Carry On (franchise)|Carry On]]"'' series.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://movies.tvguide.com/dont-panic-chaps/review/113266|title=Don't Panic Chaps!|work=TV Guide}}</ref>

It was based on a radio play and was made for £75,000.<ref name="film">Tom Johnson and Deborah Del Vecchio, ''Hammer Films: An Exhaustive Filmography'', McFarland, 1996 p171</ref> It was shot at [[Walton Studios]]. The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]] [[Scott MacGregor (art director)|Scott MacGregor]].

==Plot==
The film starts just after the [[Battle of El Alamein]] somewhere in North Africa. British troops train in enemy plane and ship recognition. They train to operate an inflatable dinghy and are then taken by submarine to an [[Adriatic]] island. After setting up camp they discover that the island is the base for a small unit of Germans when one of the British soldiers bumps into a German soldier while both are [[skinny dipping]] in the sea.

The British soldiers hunt for the Germans and find a former monastery where they are surprised by a German officer. He explains that his group were guarding stores for re-supplying German submarines but have been forgotten by their superiors and offers to share his supplies and accommodation if the British will agree to a [[truce]]. The British soldiers return to their camp to consider the offer and eventually agree to accept when they realise that their food and water are about to run out. They join the Germans at the monastery but both the British NCO Bolter and the German NCO Meister disagree.

The two sides live harmoniously and even find mutual interests, with Finch befriending a German archaeologist and helping on an archaeological dig. One day, while sunbathing, the British officer Brown sees a woman, Elsa, in the sea clinging to some wreckage. He is unable to swim and calls to his men to help him but they ignore his calls. Eventually he jumps in the sea but has to be rescued by the woman. The soldiers talk to her and discover that she is Slavic, and doesn't understand English, French or German. Finally Finch tries Italian and is able to communicate with her. Much hilarity ensues as the soldiers vie for her attention.

The two NCOs are mutually hostile, and eventually leave the monastery for a fist fight. When they are too exhausted to continue, they realise that they both agree that their duty as a soldier is to return to their own army so that they can continue fighting. They agree to take the inflatable dinghy and return to the war. However they are unable to overcome the current and are forced to return to the island.

When the British are eventually rescued by submarine, Elsa runs to the beach and signals that she wants to go with them, and she gladly joins Finch. The Germans, thinking they are to return to their lives of idleness in the Adriatic, immediately see a German submarine surface and resign themselves to being rescued from their island haven in order to have the glory of being transferred to the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]].

==Cast==
* [[Dennis Price]] as Krisling
* [[George Cole (actor)|George Cole]] as Finch
* [[Thorley Walters]] as Brown
* [[Nadja Regin]] as Elsa
* [[Harry Fowler]] as Ackroyd
* [[Percy Herbert (actor)|Percy Herbert]] as Bolter
* [[George Murcell]] as Meister
* [[Nicholas Phipps]] as Mortimer
* [[Terence Alexander]] as Babbington
* [[Gertan Klauber]] as Schmidt
* Thomas Foulkes as Voss

==References==
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{{George Pollock}}

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