Carry On... Up the Khyber

United Kingdom

1968

88 Min

Color

1.66:1

English

Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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CAST Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Roy Castle, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw, Peter Butterworth, Terry Scott, Angela Douglas, Cardew Robinson, Julian Holloway, Peter Gilmore, Leon Thau, Wanda Ventham, Alexandra Dane, Michael Mellinger

SOUND Ken Barker, R.T. Macphee

Synopsis

Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond looks after the British outpost near the Khybar pass. Protected by the kilted Third Foot and Mouth regiment, you would think they were safe. But the Khazi of Kalabar has other ideas. He wants all the British dead! But his troops fear the “skirted-devils”; they are rumoured not to wear anything underneath. Then one is caught with his pants on… —IMDb

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richmondhill

15May11

Probably the most presentable entry from this variable series of low-brow comedies which for the uninitiated – is there anyone within the UK who isn’t? - ran from coy-50s institutional send-ups to rag-bags of tit n’ bum jokes in the 70s. Often cinematically inept and rather bad for your teeth but a kind of comfort food nevertheless. The game performances help, here played with gusto in a take-off of Kipling et al