Follow That Camel

• Phil Silvers: Sergeant Nocker
• Charles Hawtrey: Captain Le Pice
• Joan Sims: Zig Zig
• Jim Dale: Bertram Oliphant " Bo " West
• Peter Butterworth: Simpson
• Bernard Bresslaw: Abdul
• Angela Douglas: Lady Jane Ponsonby
• Anita Harris: Corktip
• John Bluthal: Corporal Clotski
• William Mervyn: Sir Cyril Ponsonby
• Peter Gilmore: Captain Bagshaw

Carry on - In the desert, no water flows is the 14th film of the Carry-on ... film series.

Content

The English High Society is outraged: Bertram Oliphant West is said to have played cricket unfair. This shame can not stand as an English gentleman. So West is accompanied by his faithful servant Simpson in the French Foreign Legion.

There he meets the German commander Burger, whose inept deputy Captain Le Pice and the research Sergeant Nocker. To make matters worse is added even Lady Jane Ponsonby, who wants to reclaim her future husband West, which is now already being courted by the Legionnaires' darling Zig Zig.

First, however, you have to fend off Sheikh Abdul and his Arab fighters.

Comments

Carry on - In the desert, no water flows is a parody in the Foreign Legion playing adventure films, especially on film adaptations of Percival Christopher Wren's novel Beau Geste, which was previously filmed several times. As a replacement for Sidney James Phil Silvers was engaged, with which one hoped for even greater opportunities in the U.S. market on the part of producers. It was also omitted for the second and last time on the addition Carry on the international film titles. So the film is called there only Follow That Camel.

Problems you had with another " guest star ": the camel, which is seen in the film, had never seen a desert and could not walk on loose sand, so you had to use a firm surface. The desert was no real, but only a sort of big sand box. In addition, the camel Jim Dale bite in the leg. Julian Holloway, who appeared in eight films in the series, in this film is his carry-on debut.

Synchronization

The German synchronous processing was created in 1987 for ZDF under the dialogue directed by Edgar Ott. The dialog book comes from Gerda from Rüxleben.

Reviews

• " (...);. before mood over bubbling film " ( rating: 2 ½ stars = above average) - Adolf Meier Heinzl and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon " Movies on TV " ( Extended edition ). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3, p 410

" Turbulent comedy with a few swipes at national forms of behavior and mentality, but also many handles in the usual Klamottenkiste the series. "

Publications

DVD Release

• Carry on - In the desert, no water flows. MMP / AMCO 2006

Soundtrack

• Eric Rogers: Carry on - Follow That Camel. Suite. In: What a Carry On! Eric Rogers & Bruce Montgomery's theme music of the great British Carry On movie comedies. Vocalion digital, Watford 2005 CDSA6810 - digital new recording of film music in part by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, conducted by Gavin Sutherland