Comedy

Carry On Up the Jungle

- A safari of laughs with the Carry On Gang!

The Carry On team send up the Tarzan tradition in great style. Lady Evelyn Bagley mounts an expedition to find her long-lost baby. Bill Boosey is the fearless hunter and guide. Prof. Tinkle is searching for the rare Oozalum bird. Everything is going swimmingly until a gorilla enters the camp, and then the party is captured by an all female tribe from Aphrodisia... Written by Simon N. McIntosh-Smit

Release Date : 1970-03-20

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Peter Rogers ProductionsThe Rank Organisation

Production Country : United Kingdom

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Professor Inigo Tinkle

Original Name : Frankie Howerd

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bill Boosey

Original Name : Sid James

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tonka the Great / Walter Bagley

Original Name : Charles Hawtrey

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lady Evelyn Bagley

Original Name : Joan Sims

Gender : Female

Character Name : Ugh, the Jungle Boy

Original Name : Terry Scott

Gender : Male

Character Name : Claude Chumley

Original Name : Kenneth Connor

Gender : Male

Character Name : Upsidaisi

Original Name : Bernard Bresslaw

Gender : Male

Character Name : June

Original Name : Jacki Piper

Gender : Female

Character Name : Leda

Original Name : Valerie Leon

Gender : Female

Character Name : Gorilla

Original Name : Reuben Martin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nerda

Original Name : Edwina Carroll

Gender : Female

Character Name : Lubi Lieutenant

Original Name : Valerie Moore

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lubi Lieutenant

Original Name : Cathi March

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nosha Chief

Original Name : Danny Daniels

Gender : Male

Character Name : Witch Doctor

Original Name : Yemi Ajibadi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Girl Nosha

Original Name : Nina Baden-Semper

Gender : Male

Character Name : King

Original Name : John Adewole

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pregnant Lubi

Original Name : Heather Emmanuel

Gender : Female

Character Name : Nosha

Original Name : John Ashley Hamilton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nosha Warrior

Original Name : Oscar James

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nosha

Original Name : Willie Jonah

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nosha

Original Name : Jeffery Kissoon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nosha

Original Name : Chris Konyils

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gong Lubi

Original Name : Verna Lucille MacKenzie

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nosha

Original Name : Roy Stewart

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lubby Dubby Tribe Member

Original Name : Shalini Waran

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nosha with Girl

Original Name : Lincoln Webb

Gender : Male

Reviews

John Chard

@John Chard

2024-05-16

Lubby-Dubby The African jungle, and Lady Bagley is part of an expedition to hopefully find her long lost son who disappeared years before, along with her thought to be dead husband. However this is no ordinary trip, Professor Tinkle is searching for the rare Oozalum bird and expedition leader William Boosey well and truly lives up to his surname. Not only are there problems in the camp, outside is numerous other dangers. Wild beasts, wild men and tribes unheard of by human ears before. 1970 saw the Carry On team begin the decade with one of the better offerings in the franchise. Boosted by the returning Frankie Howerd and Terry Scott to join Messrs James, Hawtrey, Sims, Connor and Bresslaw, Carry On Up The Jungle sticks close to the cheeky formula that had worked in the better series entries previously (think Carry On Up The Kyber from 1968). Originally intended to be called Carry On Tarzan (the idea was scrapped for legal reasons), "Jungle" plonks a load of British odd balls in the jungle and invite us to observe how they cope. Which of course we know is not going to be very well at all. Terry Scott steals the film as a blundering Tarzan type (a role apparently turned down by Jim Dale), whilst Howerd and James get maximum humour from their polar opposite characters. With a simple plot and carrying the series innuendo trademarks on its snake bitten … ahem, Carry On Up the Jungle is a charmingly funny series entry. 7/10

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2023-07-26

"Carry on Tarzan" or "Carry on Solomon doesn't mind"? I was never a fan of Frankie Howerd's rather unsubtle form of humour, and I found that when he appeared in these, he tended to upstage the rather gentler (though just as seedy) humour that emanated from Messrs. James, Hawtrey et al. This time around, the diamond wearing Joan Sims' "Lady Bagley" is mounting a jungle expedition to see if her long-lost baby really ended up in the belly of a crocodile alongside her husband. Meantime, a loincloth clad Terry Scott is marauding the jungle swinging from tree to tree... Might he be the one? Might she still want to know if he is? This isn't really very good. Howerd dominates with his birdwatching "Prof. Tinkle" and he rather subsumes James's dipso expedition leader "Boosey", Sims and a rather daft performance from Hawtrey's "Tonka" (trucks not chocolate?). Bernard Bresslaw is quite entertaining as their local guide "Upsidaisi" and the dialogue is the usual fayre of rhyming slang and nudge, nudge, wink, wink.... It struggles to sustain it's initial momentum, I felt, and relied too much on a star that I just didn't rate, so sorry - not that great.