- Film Review
- Reviewed By David Parkinson
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2 out of 5
Jimmy Logan gives unquestionably the worst pre-Carry On Columbus performance in this disappointing outing, which is every bit as jerry-built as the Elsbels Palace Hotel itself. With a stingy quota of jokes, the team's package holiday to Spain rapidly descends into predictable postcard innuendo and second-rate slapstick. There are one or two neat observations on the British abroad, and Peter Butterworth and Hattie Jacques have fun as the shiftless hotel boss and his fiery cook, but overall there's too little for the regulars to do. This is a sad series swan song for the inimitable Charles Hawtrey.
Plot Summary
Comedy starring Sidney James, Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtrey. The holidaymakers heading for the Mediterranean "paradise" of Elsbels have high hopes of sun, sand, sea and sex. However, in an understaffed, half-built hotel, the guests may not get quite what they expected.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Vic Flange
- Sidney James
- Stuart Farquhar
- Kenneth Williams
- Tuttle
- Charles Hawtrey
- Pepe
- Peter Butterworth
- Cora Flange
- Joan Sims
- Stanley Blunt
- Kenneth Connor
- Bert Conway
- Jimmy Logan
- Sadie
- Barbara Windsor
- Evelyn Blunt
- June Whitfield
- Floella
- Hattie Jacques
- Brother Bernard
- Bernard Bresslaw
- Lily
- Sally Geeson
- Marge
- Carol Hawkins
- Harry
- Jack Douglas
- Miss Dobbs
- Patsy Rowlands
Crew
- Director
- Gerald Thomas
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