Carry On... Up the Khyber
Carry On... Up the Khyber is the sixteenth in the series of Carry On films to be made, released in 1968. It stars Carry On regulars Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw and Peter Butterworth. Roy Castle makes his only Carry On appearance in the romantic male lead part usually played by Jim Dale. Angela Douglas makes her fourth and final appearance in the series. Terry Scott returned to the series after his minor role in the first film of the series, Carry On Sergeant a decade earlier. The film is, in part, a spoof of Kiplingesque movies and television series about life in the British Raj, both contemporary and from earlier, Hollywood, periods. The title is a play on words in the risqu Carry On tradition, with Khyber short for Khyber Pass being rhyming slang for arse.
A diplomatic operation ensues on the part of the British, who fail spectacularly to prove that the incident was an aberration. The Governors wife Joan Sims, in the hope of luring the Khasi into bed with her, takes a photograph of an inspection in which many of the soldiers present are found wearing underpants, and takes it to him. With this hard evidence in hand, the Khasi would be able to muster a ferocious Afghan invasion force, storm the Khyber Pass and reclaim India from British rule but Lady RuffDiamond insists that he sleep with her before she parts with the photograph. He delays on account of her unattractiveness, eventually taking her away with him to Bungdit Dins palace.Meanwhile, the Khasis daughter, Princess Jelhi Angela Douglas, reveals to the British Captain Keene Roy Castle, with whom she has fallen in love, that the Governors wife has eloped, and a team is dispatched to return her and the photo to British hands. Disguised as Afghan generals, the interlopers are brought into the palace and, at the Khasis suggestion, are introduced to Bungdit Dins sultry concubines. Whilst enjoying the women in the harem, they are unmasked amid a farcical orgy scene, imprisoned, and scheduled to be executed at sunset along with the Governors wife. The Khasis daughter aids their escape in disguise as dancing girls, but during the entertaining of the Afghan generals, the Khasi, contemptuous of an annoying fakirs performance, demands that he see the dancing girls instead. After their disguises are seen through, the British and the Princess flee, but Lady RuffDiamond drops the photograph on leaving the palace through the gardens. The group returns to the Khyber Pass to find its guards massacred and their weapons comically mutilated, in a rare moment of albeit tainted poignancy. All attempts to hold off the advancing hordes fail miserably, and a hasty retreat is beaten to the Residency. ........
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