Carry On Jack


Carry On Jack is the eighth in the series of Carry On films to be made and was released in 1963. Most of the usual Carry On team are missing from this film only Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtrey appear throughout. 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.

Mobbed by women in the tavern as he is holding a sovereign aloft as advised by Dale, he is rescued by serving maid, Sally Juliet Mills. She wants to go to sea to find her shanghaied boyfriend Roger, but landlord Ned George Woodbridge has let her down. She finds that PoopDecker has not reported to the ship yet and is unknown to them, so in a room upstairs she knocks him out and takes his midshipmans uniform.PoopDecker wakes and dons a dress to cover his long johns, and downstairs, along with a cess pit cleaner named Walter Sweetly Charles Hawtrey, is shanghaied by a press gang run by the Venus First Officer Lieutenant Jonathan Howett Donald Houston and his bosun, Mr Angel Percy Herbert. They come to when at sea and are introduced to Captain Fearless Kenneth Williams. PoopDecker makes himself known but there is already a Midshipman PoopDecker aboard Sally, in disguise. PoopDecker, as a hopeless seaman, goes on to continually upset Howett by doing the wrong thing. Sally reveals her true identity to PoopDecker after he has been punished, and he decides to let things continue as they are. Eventually, in the course of the film PoopDecker and Sally fall in love with each other. ........

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