Stars: Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Dany Robin

Director: Gerald Thomas

Summary: As usual the Carry On Gang destroy everything sacred about the classic story of the Scarlet Pimpernel, which is set during the French Revolution.

CARRY ON DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD is one of the best films in the series in which a foppish Englishman, Sir Rodney Ffing (Sid James) and his partner Lord Darcy (Jim Dale) go undercover as 'The Black Fingernail' to rescue French aristocrats. Hoe on their heels are Citizen Bidet and and Citizen Camembert in this very funny Scarlet Pimpernel parody.

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Carry On Don't Lose Your Headparodies the adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel, with crinkly cackling Sid James as master of disguise the Black Fingernail and Jim Dale as his assistant Lord Darcy. He must rescue preposterously effete aristocrat Charles Hawtrey from the clutches of Kenneth Williams' fiendish Citizen Camembert and his sidekick Citizen Bidet (Peter Butterworth). The Black Fingernail is assisted in his efforts to thwart the birth of the burgeoning republic by the almost supernatural stupidity of his opponents, who fail to recognise the frankly undisguisable Sid James even when dressed as a flirty young woman.

What with an executioner who is tricked into beheading himself in order to prove the efficacy of his own guillotine, it's all a little too easy. As usual, no groan-worthy pun is left unturned, or unheralded by the soundtrack strains of a long whistle or wah-wah trumpet. This is pretty silly stuff even by Carry Onstandards, with most of the cast barely required to come out of first gear and an overlong climactic swordfight sequence hardly raising the dramatic stakes. Most of the humour here resides neither in the script nor the characterisation but in the endlessly watchable Williams' whooping, nasal delivery (occasionally lapsing into broad Cockney) and the jowl movements of the always-underrated Butterworth. --David Stubbs

Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Audio Commentary With Jim Dale, Photo Gallery With Captions, Theatrical Trailer, Film Trivia Notes
Year:	1967
Release Date:	February 17, 2003
Runtime:	89 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	37115 03393
Keywords:	Special, Your, Comedy, Head, General, Carry, Lose, Edition, Wide, Screen, Don't
Genre:	Comedy