Carry On Cleo

1964

Comedy

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.

"The Funniest Film Since 54 B.C."

Rating

6.6
94 votes

Popularity

2.2287

Origin & Countries

GB | en | United Kingdom

Production

Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors

Runtime

94 min.

Status

Released

Release: 11/8/1964

Credits

Carry On Cleo

Gerald ThomasDirector

Carry On Cleo

Sid JamesMarc Antony

Carry On Cleo

Kenneth WilliamsCaeser

Carry On Cleo

Jim DaleHorsa

Carry On Cleo

Amanda BarrieCleopatra

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Reviews

CinemaSerf

4/10/2024

7 / 10

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.

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