Carry On Spying

Expand

Carry On Spying (1964)

U 06/01/1964 (US) Comedy 1h 27m

User
Score

What's your Vibe?

Cloak And Dagger Operations Exposed. Secret Agent Charlie Bind O.O.O.H! Takes The Lid Off The Funniest Spy Story Of The Year!

Overview

Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and Charlie Bind, aided and abetted by the comely Agent Honeybutt and Agent Crump, battle against the evil powers of international bad guys STENCH and their three cronies.

Gerald Thomas

Director
Sid Colin

Screenplay
Talbot Rothwell

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Kenneth Williams

Desmond Simkins
Barbara Windsor

Daphne Honeybutt
Bernard Cribbins

Harold Crump
Charles Hawtrey

Charlie Bind
Eric Barker

The Chief
Dilys Laye

Lila
Jim Dale

Carstairs
Richard Wattis

Cobley
Eric Pohlmann

The Fat Man
View More

Full Cast & Crew

A review by John Chard

90%

Written by John Chard on July 1, 2015

I expected you to be a man... or a woman.

The 9th in the Carry On series, and the last to be filmed in black and white, is one of the best. It finds the gang kind of biting the hand that feeds them, Pinewood. The home of James Bond was also the home of the Carry On mob, so with Peter Rogers, Gerald Thomas and Talbot Rothwell spying an opportunity to spoof 007, they did so, whilst also revelling in the chance for some film noir dalliances, notably The Third Man.

The cast is this time headed up by Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor (making her Carry On debut), Bernard Cribbins and Charles Ha... read the rest.

Read All Reviews