Carry On Emmannuelle

Carry On Emmannuelle
Original UK quad poster
Directed by	Gerald Thomas
Produced by	Peter Rogers
Written by	Lance Peters
Starring	Kenneth Williams Suzanne Danielle Kenneth Connor Jack Douglas Joan Sims Peter Butterworth Larry Dann Beryl Reid
Music by	Eric Rogers
Cinematography	Alan Hume
Edited by	Peter Boita
Distributed by	The Rank Organisation Hemdale
Release date	November 1978
Running time	88 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£320,000

Carry On Emmannuelle is the 30th in the series of Carry On films to be made, and was released in 1978. This was the last Carry On film to be made until Carry On Columbus in 1992. The film was to be the final Carry On for many regulars, including Kenneth Williams (in his 26th Carry On), Kenneth Connor (in his 17th), Joan Sims (in her 24th) and Peter Butterworth (in his 16th). Jack Douglas and Jim Dale are the only regulars from the original run of Carry On films to bridge the gap to Carry On Columbus. Beryl Reid and Suzanne Danielle make their only appearances in the series here. The film featured a change in style, becoming more openly sexual. This was highlighted by the implied behaviour of Danielle's character, though she does not bare any more flesh than any other Carry On female lead. These changes brought the film closer to the then popular series of X-rated Confessions... comedies, or indeed the official Emmanuelle films it parodies. This, and Carry On England, were the only films in the series to be certified AA by the then British Board of Film Censors, which restricted audiences to those aged 14 and over.

Plot

Emmannuelle Prévert (Suzanne Danielle) relieves the boredom of a flight on Concorde by seducing timid Theodore Valentine (Larry Dann). She returns home to London to surprise her husband, the French ambassador, Émile Prevert (Kenneth Williams) but first surprises the butler, Lyons (Jack Douglas). He removes her coat, only to find that she has left her dress on the aircraft. The chauffeur, Leyland (Kenneth Connor), housekeeper, Mrs Dangle (Joan Sims), and aged boot-boy, Richmond (Peter Butterworth), sense saucy times ahead… and they are right! Émile is dedicated to his bodybuilding, leaving a sexually frustrated Emmannuelle to find pleasure with everyone from the Lord Chief Justice (Llewellyn Rees) to chat show host, Harold Hump (Henry McGee). Theodore is spurned by Emmannuelle, who has genuinely forgotten their airborne encounter, and, despite reassurances from his mother (Beryl Reid), exacts revenge by revealing Emmannuelle's antics to the press. However, after a visit to her doctor (Albert Moses), she discovers that she is pregnant and decides to settle down to a faithful marriage with Émile… and dozens of children.

Cast

Crew

• Screenplay – Lance Peters
• Music – Eric Rogers
• Song – Kenny Lynch
• Performers – Masterplan
• Director of Photography – Alan Hume
• Editor – Peter Boita
• Art Director – Jack Sampan
• Production Manager – Roy Goddard
• Camera Operator – Godfrey Godar
• Make-up – Robin Grantham
• Production Executive for Cleves – Donald Langdon
• Assistant Director – Gregory Dark
• Sound Recordists – Danny Daniel & Otto Snel
• Continuity – Marjorie Lavelly
• Wardrobe – Margaret Lewin
• Stills Cameraman – Ken Bray
• Hairdresser – Betty Sherriff
• Costume Designer – Courtenay Elliott
• Set Dresser – John Hoesli
• Assistant Editor – Jack Gardner
• Dubbing Editor – Peter Best
• Titles & Opticals – GSE Ltd
• Processor – Technicolor Ltd
• Producer – Peter Rogers
• Director – Gerald Thomas

Filming and locations

• Filming dates – 10 April-15 May 1978

Interiors:

• Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire

Exteriors:

• Wembley, London
• Trafalgar Square, London
• Oxford Street, London
• London Zoo, London

Critical reception

Philip French took a very negative review of Carry On Emmannuelle: "This relentless sequence of badly-written, badly-timed dirty jokes is surely one of the most morally and aesthetically offensive pictures to emerge from a British studio."^[1] Christopher Tookey considered the film to be "Embarrassingly feeble".^[2]

Bibliography

• Davidson, Andy (2012). Carry On Confidential. London: Miwk. ISBN 978-1908630018. 
• Sheridan, Simon (2011). Keeping the British End Up – Four Decades of Saucy Cinema. London: Titan Books. ISBN 978-0857682796. 
• Webber, Richard (2009). 50 Years of Carry On. London: Arrow. ISBN 978-0099490074. 
• Hudis, Norman (2008). No Laughing Matter. London: Apex. ISBN 978-1906358150. 
• Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema by Simon Sheridan (fourth edition) (2011) (Titan Books)
• Ross, Robert (2002). The Carry On Companion. London: Batsford. ISBN 978-0713487718. 
• Bright, Morris; Ross, Robert (2000). Mr Carry On – The Life & Work of Peter Rogers. London: BBC Books. ISBN 978-0563551836. 
• Rigelsford, Adrian (1996). Carry On Laughing – a celebration. London: Virgin. ISBN 1-85227-554-5. 
• Hibbin, Sally & Nina (1988). What a Carry On. London: Hamlyn. ISBN 978-0600558194. 
• Eastaugh, Kenneth (1978). The Carry On Book. London: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0715374030. 

References

• Robert Ross The Carry On Companion, Batsford Books, 1996
• Simon Sheridan Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema, Titan Books, 2011 (fourth edition)

External links

• Carry On Emmannuelle on IMDb
• Carry On Emmannuelle at The Whippit Inn