Don't Lose Your Head
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Directed by | Gerald Thomas |
Produced by | Peter Rogers |
Written by | Talbot Rothwell |
Starring | Sid James Kenneth Williams Jim Dale Charles Hawtrey Joan Sims Dany Robin |
Narrated by | Patrick Allen |
Music by | Eric Rogers |
Cinematography | Alan Hume |
Edited by | Rod Keys |
Distributed by | Rank Organisation |
Release dates
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Running time
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90 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | £200,000 |
Don't Lose Your Head is the thirteenth in the series of Carry On films to be made (and one of only two not to have "Carry On" in the original title). It features regular team members Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey and Joan Sims. French actress Dany Robin makes her only Carry on appearance in Don't Lose Your Head. It was released in 1966. Set in France and England in 1789 during the French Revolution, it is a parody of Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel.
Plot
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Enraged revolutionary leader Citizen Camembert (Kenneth Williams) and his toadying lackey, Citizen Bidet (Peter Butterworth), scour France and England for the elusive saviour of the French nobles, who has become known as The Black Fingernail. After abducting the Fingernail's true love, Jacqueline (Dany Robin), Camembert and Bidet plot to lure the Fingernail to his death... oblivious that Desiree (Joan Sims), Camembert's flamboyant mistress, is herself in love with the hero and will do all she can to save him from the guillotine.
Cast
- Sid James as Sir Rodney Ffing/The Black Fingernail
- Kenneth Williams as Citizen Camembert
- Jim Dale as Lord Darcy Pue
- Charles Hawtrey as Duke de Pommefrite
- Joan Sims as Desiree Dubarry
- Peter Butterworth as Citizen Bidet
- Dany Robin as Jacqueline
- Peter Gilmore as Maximilien Robespierre
- Marianne Stone as Landlady
- Michael Ward as Henri
- Leon Greene as Malabonce
- Hugh Futcher as Guard
- Richard Shaw as Captain
- David Davenport as Sergeant
- Jennifer Clulow as 1st lady
- Valerie Van Ost as 2nd lady
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Filming and locations
- Filming dates – 12 September-28 October 1966
Interiors:
- Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire
Exteriors:
- Clandon Hall, Guildford, Surrey, England
- Claydon Park, Claydon, Buckinghamshire, England
- Cliveden, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- Waddesdon Manor, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- Black Park, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Bibliography
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- Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema by Simon Sheridan (third edition) (2007) (Reynolds & Hearn Books)
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External links
- EngvarB from September 2013
- Use dmy dates from September 2013
- 1966 films
- English-language films
- Articles using small message boxes
- British films
- British comedy films
- British historical films
- Carry On films
- Films directed by Gerald Thomas
- Scarlet Pimpernel films
- Parody films
- 1960s comedy films
- 1960s historical films
- Films set in the 1780s
- Pinewood Studios films
- Films produced by Peter Rogers