History Film / FollowThatCamel

Bo and Simpson are soon treated like royalty by Sergeant Nocker, but when he takes the two out for the night, Abdul uses Corktip (Creator/AnitaHarris), a sexy belly dancer, to capture Bo and Sergeant Nocker, while also meeting Jane upon her arrival and taking her to be his thirteenth wife.

** Corktip spits on the sand in disgust at Sergeant Nocker and Bo after they've woken up from their shanghai, which makes Bo scald her for doing so, pointing out that "in England, you'd be fined [[UsefulNotes/OldBritishMoney five pounds]]."

Bo and Simpson are soon treated like royalty by Sergeant Nocker, but when he takes the two out for the night, Abdul uses Corktip (Creator/AnitaHarris), a sexy BellyDancer, to capture Bo and Sergeant Nocker, while also meeting Jane upon her arrival and taking her to be his thirteenth wife.

* BellyDancer: Bo, Simpson and Sergeant Nocker join together to enjoy a night at Café Zigazig, where Corktip, the local belly dancer, seduces Bo and Sergeant Nocker into being captured by Corktip's master, Sheikh Abdul Abulbul.

* ClingyJealousGirl: After six days with Sergeant Nocker in the back room of her café, Zig-Zig glares at Sergeant Nocker in disgust when he becomes distracted by [[BellyDancer Corktip's belly dancing]]. She also tries to block his view with her body, but he cranes his neck around her.

* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Simpson isn't really fascinated by [[BellyDancer Corktip's belly dancing]], unlike Sergeant Nocker and Bo. He chooses to compare her bra to the plates that Bo used to use for their dumpling recipes.

* KarmaHoudini: Even though Sergeant Nocker is found out to be a liar, he doesn't get repercussions for conning the army. Surely, in real life, he would've probably been either dismissed or deported back to the US or probably ''executed''.

After finding out his innocence, Jane sets out to find him in North Africa, where with help from local café owner Zig-Zig (Sims), Bo and Simpson join the FrenchForeignLegion. The raging Commandant Maximilian Burger (Williams), and his second-in-command Captain le Pice (Hawtrey) are on high alert following a threat from Sheikh Abdul Abulbul (Bresslaw), and so treat the two newcomers with great suspicion. They are introduced to Sergeant Ernie Nocker (Silvers) who takes an instant dislike to them until he realises that they know his tales of bravery against the Riffs were all lies, and he had been having it off with Zig-Zig the entire time.

* LastNameBasis: Captain le Pice. We never know what his forename is. [[note]] Creator/PeterRogers said that it was supposed to be Gerrard, for the "Gerry le Pice" joke, but they never got around to naming him in the film itself. [[/note]]

* InvisibleHoles: After the battle in the film's climax, Commandant Burger doesn't notice until he takes a drink of water that he has been shot multiple times; the water pours out of the many bullet-holes in his body.
* KarmaHoudini: Even though Sergeant Nocker is found out to be a liar, he doesn't get repercussions for conning the army. Surely, in real life, he would've probably been either dismissed, or deported back to the US, or probably ''executed''.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Although Creator/PhilSilvers' character's name is "Sergeant Nocker", it is often mistakenly spelled "Sergeant '''K'''nocker".

The movie stars a middle-class cricket fanatic named Bertram Oliphant "Bo" West (Dale), who runs away from England to join the FrenchForeignLegion with his loyal servant Simpson (Butterworth) after being accused of cheating in a friendly cricket match by rival suitor Captain Humphrey Bagshaw (Creator/PeterGilmore) to Bo's crush Lady Jane Ponsonby (Douglas).

** One dub changes Sergeant Nocker's surname to "Dumpling", as "Nocker" rhymes with "Nockerl" - German for "dumplings".

This was the second ''Film/CarryOn'' film that didn't have the "Carry On" phrase proceeding the verb/phrase, but is sometimes stuck on when listed as a feature in the TV Guide. It wasn't meant to be a member of the franchise to begin with anyway, despite the same crew and the UniversalAdaptorCast, but was reluctantly stuck on there to boost the box office. (Interestingly, in some countries the movie was released as ''Carry On in the Legion'').

--->'''Sergeant Nocker''': How about that! The whole garrison wiped out and they give us selections from ''Theatre/TheDesertSong''!

* ShoutOutToShakespeare: After discovering that the sheikh's army have moved on from their earlier spot, Commandant Burger grabs a nearby skull at the crime scene, thinking that it's Lady Jane, and moans "[[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} Alas, poor Jane]] - [[AlasPoorYorick I knew her well]]." Sergeant Nocker then points out that the skull is masculine.

* ChekhovsGun: Bo's cricket skills.

* CrossingTheDesert: The legionnaires have to do so in order to return to the fort before Abdul can marry Jane. This proves tough however - Captain le Pice and half the men drop out early on due to injury, whilst the remainders turn into a DwindlingParty as more and more men drop dead on the trek. By the end, only Bo, Simpson, Sergeant Nocker, Commandant Burger and Corporal Clotski are left.

* DubNameChange:
** Commandant Burger is nicknamed "Max" in the Hungarian dub.
** The various Hungarian dubs also change Corktip's name to "Vanilla", "Corkscrew", and "Mouthpiece".

* AllThereInTheScript: We don't get to know Sergeant Nocker's first name, but the back of the DVD in "The Complete ''Film/CarryOn'' Collection" boxset gives it as "Ernie".

** The song played on the gramophone is "Durch die grüne Heide", which wouldn't be written for another 35 odd years.

* LastNameBasis: Captain le Pice. We never know what his forename is.

* ExcitedShowTitle: Some international releases were ''Follow That Camel'''''!'''

* BungledSuicide: Lady Jane's arranged husband hangs himself on the news that Bo has fled to join the army after he accused him of tripping him over at a cricket match. The dinner guests manage to save him before it's too late.

* {{Fanservice}}: Mostly from the women of the desert [[BareYourMidriff baring their midriffs]].

* ABloodyMess: The audience first sees Sergeant Nocker asleep in Zig-Zig's bed after having a one-night-stand with her. When he returns to the army base, he ties a bandage with a speck of jam on it to his forehead and pretends to limp through the front gates.

* BungledSuicide: Lady Jane's arranged-husband hangs himself on the news that Bo has fled to join the army after he accused him of tripping him over at a cricket match. The dinner guests manage to save him before it's too late.

* CryingWolf: Sergeant Nocker. He pretends to take dangerous patrolling missions into the occupied Arab towns in order to have enough time to sleep with the vulnerable local women; he covers his tracks by creating [[ABloodyMess paint-stained bandages]] to stick all over his body and acts disoriented when he staggers through the base gates, and is then rewarded with a medal for his on-the-spot tale of fighting unarmed against enemy troops. After showing Bo and Simpson around the town with the other soldiers, a jealous Zig-Zig storms into Commandant Burger's office and tells him the truth; the return from being kidnapped by the sheikh's army and trying desperately to tell the commandant and the captain what's happened the night before lands Sergeant Nocker in the Legion's jail for "lying again", no questions asked.

* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Simpson isn't really fascinated by [[BellyDancer Corktip's belly dancing]], unlike Sergeant Nocker and Bo. He chooses to compare her bra to the plates that Bo used to use for their dumplings recipes.

* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Implied with Jane's suitors Humphrey and Bo. This would make sense with Humphrey's actions to get Bo kicked out of the cricket club because he probably saw himself better than Bo because of his wealth (note that he is at the dinner table with Lady Jane in the next scene). Also, after Bo is kicked out of the cricket club, he immediately flees the UK to North Africa to join the Foreign Legion, implying that his entire life was probably focused on being in that cricket club and his romantic interest in Jane, and seems to act that he's ashamed to be seen again. Although, Bo has a personal butler that's always by his side, but their relationship is portrayed as two close friends that have a one-sided catering service instead of a merchant barking orders at a working-class-born man that should be grateful to be serving him.

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