Don't Lose Your Head

Carry on - Just do not lose your head (in the U.S. also Carry On Pimpernel ) is the thirteenth film in the series of Carry-on ... movies.

Content

France during the French Revolution: Madame Guillotine keeps bloody harvest. Citizen Camembert, chief of the secret police, and his assistant citizens bidet are satisfied. A noble head after another lands in the basket. But then there is an unexpected problem. An unknown masked man - The black fingernail - and his accomplice save the standing just before the execution delinquents. These two champions of the nobility, infiltrated from England Avenger torpedo the ideal world of the revolution. Indignant citizens calls Robespierre finally results. Now makes citizens Camembert on to finally discover the identity of the masked avenger.

Comments

This film is a parody of the film adaptations of the novel " The Scarlet Pimpernel or scarlet seal" of Emmuska Orczy, in which a group of English noblemen undertakes successful attempts to preserve French nobles from the gallows.

This part is one of the most ambitious films of the series. The film features surpasses almost all other parts of the series. And you achieved what it was intended: The film works not only as a hilarious comedy that satirizes swashbuckler films à la Zorro, but the film is both credible voices also as an adventure film.

Very interesting in this film are the reversals of the current images. On the one hand we have citizen Camembert - slick, accurate, through and through of aristocratic behavior. Lusting his character, loud, through and through " chav " - On the other side of the black fingernail.

With this film, the production of Anglo - Amalgamated Productions goes to The Rank Organisation. In order to break into the American market better with the series walk, was abandoned for the first time ( but with only two movies) on the Standard Carry on titles for the international market. Thus, the film is internationally known as Do not Lose Your Head. Ironically, however, gave to the film in the United States or under a second title: Carry On Pimpernel - and it was again a Carry on.

Synchronization

The German synchronous processing was created in 1987 for ZDF under the dialogue directed by Edgar Ott.

Reviews

  • "(...) The " black fingernail ", symbol of ( dingy ) powder and wig caste, here is a signal for merry action and bright humor. " ( Score: 2 stars = average ) - Adolf Heinzl Meier and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon " Movies on TV " ( Extended edition ). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3, p 410

DVD Release

  • Carry on - Just do not lose your head. AMCO / MMP 2006
1966 in film Gerald Thomas Screenplay Peter Rogers Film score Eric Rogers (composer) Alan Hume Sid James Charles Hawtrey (actor born 1914) Carry On Nurse
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