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Carry On Cleo

Carry On Cleo

  • Status: Released
  • 08-11-1964
  • Runtime: 94 min
  • Score: 6.6
  • Vote count: 95

Two Britons—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Cleopatra.

Sid James

Marc Antony

Kenneth Williams

Caeser

Jim Dale

Horsa

Amanda Barrie

Cleopatra

Joan Sims

Calpurnia

Kenneth Connor

Hengist Pod

Charles Hawtrey

Seneca

Julie Stevens

Gloria

Brian Oulton

Brutus

Michael Ward

Archimedes

Francis de Wolff

Agrippa

Victor Maddern

Segeant-Major

Sheila Hancock

Senna Pod

Jon Pertwee

Soothsayer

Gertan Klauber

Marcus

Warren Mitchell

Spencius

David Davenport

Bilius

Tanya Binning

Virginia

Tom Clegg

Sosages

Peter Gilmore

Galley Master

Michael Nightingale

Ancient Briton

Ian Wilson

Small Messenger

Peter Jesson

Seth

Brian Rawlinson

Hessian Driver

E. V. H. Emmett

Narrator (voice)

Wanda Ventham

Pretty Bidder (uncredited)

Mark Hardy

Guard at Caesar's Palace (uncredited)

Percy Herbert

Guard (uncredited)

Norman Mitchell

Heckler (uncredited)

Jill Goldston

Citizen (uncredited)

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A pretty paranoid Caesar (Kenneth Williams) is anything but the hero of legend. Luckily, he has the brave "Hengist" (Kenneth Connor) to protect him. He is a captured Briton who has sworn to protect his master - except, well, it's a bit of mistaken identity and he's really just an useless inventor who is even more yellow than his boss. Conspiracies abound at the court of the eponymous and flirtatious, milk-bathing, queen (Amanda Barrie) and with Mark Antony (Sid James), Agrippa (Francis De Wolff) and Seneca (Charles Hawtrey) all plotting away to stay alive, take control of the empire, seduce anyone/everyone - it's an ideal courtly scenario for the gang to get up to some high jinx. "Infamy, infamy - the've all got it infamy!" has got to be one of the most famous lines in the English language and this joyful depiction of all things phnaa phnaa works well for ninety minutes. It looks good, there's some effort gone into the quite witty and clever writing, the costumes and the sets (clearly made of polystyrene). The ensemble effort delivered by the team, aided as always by the sparingly used but on-form Joan Sims as the put upon Calpurnia, reminded me of why, at times, this series of films was worth watching. Amongst the best, I'd say.