Stars: Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Peter Butterworth, Jimmy Logan, Barbara Windsor

Director: Gerald Thomas

Summary: A package holiday has a definite look of disaster when a group of tourists arrive on the island of Elsbels.

The Carry On team again manage to find themselves in another farcical situation. This time, Sid James, Bernard Bresslaw and Barbara Windsor and the gang go on holiday to Spain only to find their hotel unfinished and practically unstaffed. It's particularly memorable for the several instances that Sid James 'accidently' walks in on an almost naked Barbara Windsor in the shower!

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One of the last decent Carry Onmovies, Carry On Abroadis a 1972 venture into the world of package holidays. After this, the series descended into unfunny coarseness as opposed to camply laboured double entendre, culminating in the dreadful Carry On Emanuelle. Here, publican Sid James and dutiful mother's son turned sex maniac Charles Hawtrey are among a brace of Brits heading for the "paradise island" of Elsbels. Kenneth Williams is the out-of-his-depth tour operator, reverting to the sort of effete types he played in the 1950s, Peter Butterworth a pre-Manuel-style manager of a half-built hotel. A series of disasters ensue, with the entire gang landing up in jail following a fracas in a brothel at one point, but everyone finds romantic and sexual fulfilment in a quaint disco finale. This includes a gay character who is "dissuaded" from his homosexuality in a typical example of the thoroughly reactionary subtext that constitutes the really naughty bit of most Carry Onfilms. Nonetheless, this throwback to an imaginary time when the lewdest innuendo of a dirty old man was greeted by young females with a flirty "Ooh, saucy!" is enjoyable on condition that you enter into its seaside-postcard spirit. June Whitfield is fine as a sexually uptight wife, Kenneth Connor a model of red-faced frustration as her wimpish husband.

On the DVD:Sadly, no extra features except scene selection. The picture is a 4:3 ratio full-screen presentation. --David Stubbs

Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Audio Commentary With Sally Geeson Carol Hawkins John Clive And David Kernan, Photo Gallery With Captions, Theatrical Trailer, Film Trivia Notes
Year:	1972
Release Date:	February 17, 2003
Runtime:	85 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	37115 03363
Keywords:	Special, Comedy, General, Carry, Abroad, Edition, Wide, Screen
Genre:	Comedy