Carry on Up the Jungle (1970) | w/ Sidney James, Frankie Howerd, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Terry Scott

Comedy | UK | English | Colour | 87min w/ Sidney James, Frankie Howerd, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Terry Scott The Carry On team send up the Tarzan tradition in great style. An extremely low budget - shot on an obvious studio set and featuring cheap and grainy stock footage - only adds to the hilarity in this 1970 entry in the "Carry On" series. Series stalwarts Sidney James and Joan Sims star, as the gang head deep into the Amazon jungle in search of an endangered species of bird. There they must contend with a tribe of Amazons and a horny gorilla. As if that weren't enough, they find themselves pursued by ravenous headhunters. Carry On Up the Jungle is the nineteenth Carry On film,. It marked Frankie Howerd's second and final appearance in the series. He stars alongside regular players Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Terry Scott and Bernard Bresslaw. Kenneth Williams is unusually absent. Kenneth Connor returns to the series for the first time since Carry On Cleo six years earlier and would now feature in almost every entry up to Carry On Emmannuelle in 1978. Jacki Piper makes the first of her four appearances in the series. This movie is a send-up of the classic Tarzan movies. As usual its the players that make the film worth watching, however a couple of the regular Carry On players noticeably absent (Kenneth Williams is especially missed). Frankie Howard is the guest star who plays a part originally written for Kenneth Williams but plays it in his own style and carries it off well.