Carry on Again Christmas 53 years old

The second of the four Carry On Christmas specials, this one loosely recounts the story of Treasure Island with Sid James as Long John Silver and Barbara Windsor, strangely, as Jim Hawkins. The writing never quite builds up any steam, and many of the jokes were recycled from previous films anyhow. This special was filmed in black and white -- strangely, since the previous one was in color. I generally love the look of black and white, and the earliest films in the Carry On series do fine with it. But here it is used ineffectively and feels like a budgetary concession, which I'm sure it was.

Credits

Carry on Again Christmas Cast

Name Character
Charles Hawtrey He was 56, 73 years old when he died as Dr Livershake
Charles Hawtrey He was 56, 73 years old when he died as Old Blind Pew, Night Watchman, Nipper the Flipper
Bernard Bresslaw He was 36, 59 years old when he died as Rollicky Bill
Terry Scott He was 43, 67 years old when he died as Squire Treyhornay
Sid James He was 57, 62 years old when he died as Long John Sil
Barbara Windsor She was 33, now 87 years old as Jim Hawkins
Bob Todd He was 49, 70 years old when he died as Ben Gunn, Ship Mate
Wendy Richard She was 27, 65 years old when she died as Kate

Carry on Again Christmas Crew

Name Department
Sid Colin as Writer. He was 50 (69) years old when He died Writing
Dave Freeman as Writer. He was 48 (82) years old when He died Writing
Carry on Again Christmas poster
Carry on Again Christmas (53 years)

  • Release day: Thursday, December 24, 1970
  • Runtime: 50 minutes