Watch Your Stern
- Eric Barker: Captain Foster
- Kenneth Connor: Bliss Worth
- Hattie Jacques: Agatha Potter
- Leslie Phillips: Lieutenant Commander Fanshawe
- Joan Sims: Ann Foster
- Noel Purcell: Sir Humphrey Pettigrew
- Sid James: Chief Petty Officer Mundy
- David Lodge: military policeman
- Victor Maddern seamen who are fishing for bicycle
- Ed Devereaux: Commander Phillipd
Carry on - our torpedo comes back is not an official film of the series of Carry-on ... movies, but in terms of content as well as cast and crew, he appears as one and may be attributed to this. The screenplay is based on the play Something about a Sailor by Earle Couttie.
Content
The Royal Navy is testing new torpedoes, but they have a catch: you come back and sink the ship that shot down. After having lost several ships in this way, the project is awarded to Captain Foster. From his ship, the work is to be coordinated and the design engineer of the torpedoes, Agatha Potter, work. Unfortunately, destroyed Bliss Worth, the awkward Stewart the captain 's plans. Actually, he wanted there the mistake he had found as a hobbyist meant improve. Now desperately needs her replacement, after all, Admiral Sir Humphrey Pettigrew has announced a visit. With the help of Foster's daughter Ann a copy of the plan is purchased and Bliss Worth gets his chance to participate in the project. Then the practical test must be done ...
Comments
Originally Ted Ray should play the role of Sid James, but he had to cancel due to scheduling difficulties. James won and then got the solid ensemble role that was actually intended for Ray and became one of the most important and most popular stars of the series, and the British film comedy.
The film is based on the play Something About a Sailor by Earle Couttie.
In Germany they made it look easy and brought the film under the label Carry on along with multiple carry-ons ... out.
Synchronization
The German synchronous processing was written in 1986 for ZDF under the dialogue directed by Edgar Ott. The dialog book comes from Gerda from Rüxleben.
Reviews
- "Marine dud. ( ... ) Is not consistently funny, but with amusing running gags. " ( Score: 2 stars = 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
- " Persiflage directed to the conditions in the British Navy, with slapstick and deadpan humor. " - " Lexicon of international film " (CD -ROM edition ), Systhema, Munich 1997
Soundtrack
- Bruce Montgomery: Watch Your Stern. 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