History Film / CarryOnRegardless

* AllThereInTheScript: Lucy Griffith's character is named Aunt Acid in the script.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* OperationJealousy: Sam is called out on a babysitting job, but this turns out to be a ruse by the customer, Mrs Panting, who just wants a man to make her husband jealous, thereby re-igniting their marriage. It works, although Sam ends up with a black eye for his trouble.

''Carry On Regardless'' is a 1961 film and the fifth ''Film/CarryOn'' film in the popular British film series. It starred Creator/SidJames, Creator/KennethConnor, Creator/CharlesHawtrey, Creator/JoanSims, Creator/KennethWilliams, Creator/BillOwen, Creator/LizFraser, and Terence Longdon.

''Carry On Regardless'' is a 1961 film and the fifth ''Film/CarryOn'' film in the popular British film series. It starred Creator/SidJames, Creator/KennethConnor, Creator/CharlesHawtrey, Creator/JoanSims, Creator/KennethWilliams, Bill Owen, Creator/LizFraser, and Terence Longdon.

''Regardless'' is based around Helping Hands, an agency that sets out to perform all sorts of odd jobs, which run by Bert Handy (James) and his assistant Miss Cooling (Esma Cannon). Seven people turn up to join the agency for a new start - unhappy labour exchange clerk Sam Twist (Connor) and six labour exchange regulars, the upper-class Montgomery Infield-Hopping (Longdon), the working-class Mike Weston (Owen), the multilingual Francis Courtenay (Williams), the brassy Lily Duveen (Sims), the glamorous Delia King (Fraser) and the naïve Gabe Dimple (Hawtrey).

''Carry On Regardless'' is a 1961 film and the fifth ''Film/CarryOn'' film in the popular British film series. It starred Creator/SidJames, Creator/KennethConnor, Creator/CharlesHawtrey, Creator/JoanSims, Creator/KennethWilliams, Bill Owen, Liz Fraser, and Terence Longdon.

** Delia's only solo scene is just an excuse for the film to show Liz Fraser trying on lingerie.

''Regardless'' is based around a job center named Helping Hands that works with the unemployed or job-seekers, run by Bert Handy (James) and his assistant Miss Cooling (Esma Cannon). Seven people turn up to join the agency for a new start - unhappy labour exchange clerk Sam Twist (Connor) and six labour exchange regulars, the upper-class Montgomery Infield-Hopping (Longdon), the working-class Mike Weston (Owen), the multilingual Francis Courtenay (Williams), the naïve Gabe Dimple (Hawtrey), the brassy Lily Duveen (Sims), and the glamorous Delia King (Fraser).

They are given a succession of ludicrous jobs, such as Francis taking a monkey for a walk and becoming a translator for a bilingual married couple, Lily getting drunk at a wine-tasting event, Gabe entering the boxing ring, Sam taking on a spy persona and Bert being mistaken for a famous diagnostician.

* OutOfFocus:
** Though this is nominally an ensemble film, we see very little of either Montgomery Infield-Hopping or Mike Weston outside of sequences involving all seven employees (such as the Ideal Home Exhibition or the mass address mix-up), while Delia, Lily and Gabe get one solo vignette each. As such, most of the jobs are taken by either Sam or Francis.

* NotInFrontOfTheParrot: Mike arrives at an aviary, thinking it's the strip club he's going to be a bouncer for. When he asks the bird woman where the girls were, the woman replies that no one strips in here, cuing the parrot in the cage nearby to say, "She only strips when she goes to bed", as the bird woman barks at it to be quiet.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Severely inconveniences rather than kills, but Sam gets what he thinks is an assignment for a secret meeting on the Forth Bridge, so he boards a train to Edinburgh and jumps off as the train is crossing the Firth of Forth. However, the assignment was actually asking for a ''fourth for bridge''.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Sam, Francis, Lily, Delia, Gabe, Mike and Montgomery, seven eager people looking for interesting jobs and will try any task given to them, no matter how unsuitable they may be.

->'''Bert''': It's a matter o' business. In 'is shoes I'd do exactly the same thing.

* TheCameo: Series regular Creator/HattieJacques appears briefly as -- what else? -- a hospital nurse (though not the head matron, for once).
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Sam, who is trying to quit smoking, but is so stressed he dashes out and buys a pack of cigarettes.
* CoolOldLady: Miss Cooling.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: After tormenting a nationally-famous boxer, [[{{cloudcuckoolander}} Gabby]] willingly steps into the boxing ring and headbutts him unconscious.
* CunningLinguist: Francis can speak sixteen languages. He's the only one who can understand the landlord.
* {{Fanservice}}: Liz Frazer trying on lingerie and nurses in their underwear.

* LastNameBasis: Miss Cooling.
* MistakenForCheating: One of the first requests sent to Helping Hands comes from Mr Delling, who needs a woman who wears the same size clothing as his wife so that she can model a large number of clothes he is buying as a surprise present; Delia fits the bill and is sent to the Delling home. Mrs Delling comes home in the middle of the modelling session, and Delia hides in the wardrobe. However, when the suspicious Mrs Delling opens the wardrobe, Delia has put on some of Mr Delling's clothes and pretends to be a workman, then makes a quick getaway.
* MistakenForPedophile: Francis is told to meet Chinese immigrants at the train station. He approaches a chaperone with a group of young schoolgirls, wondering why they didn't look Asian or why they spoke English. The chaperone calls security and they carry a kicking and protesting Francis away.

* MistakenForProstitute: In Lily's eyes, that is. She arrives at a famous actor's mansion, who asks her to take her clothes off, telling her how much he'd pay her. She shoves him into an armchair and marches out of the house in disgust.
* MistakenForSpecialGuest: When wealthy scrap metal merchant Sir Theodore employs Bert to hold his place in the waiting room queue at the local hospital (as rich as he is, he still insists on using the NHS), the staff mistake Bert for a visiting diagnostician, and invite him to take a look at various patients.
* NotInFrontOfTheParrot: Mike arrives at an aviary, thinking it's the strip club he's going to be a bouncer for. When he asks the woman where the half-naked women were, the woman replies that no one strips "in here", cuing the parrot in the cage nearby to say, "She only strips when she goes to bed." The woman barks at it to be quiet.

* OpenFlyGag: In the room of silence, Sam spots a businessman with his trouser buttons unfastened. He tries several times to play charades with the man, until he eventually decides to make a buzzing noise, gesture to the buttons on his waistcoat, and point as he pulled his hands down his stomach towards his groin, making the businessman check himself and then rush out of the room in embarrassment.

* OutOfFocus: Though this is nominally an ensemble film, we see very little of either Montgomery Infield-Hopping or Mike Weston outside of sequences involving all seven employees (such as the Ideal Home Exhibition or the mass address scramble), while Delia and Lily get one solo vignette each; most of the jobs are taken by either Sam or Francis.
** Charles Hawtrey had the start of a long running disagreement with Creator/PeterRogers concerning his billing, stating that "He was a comedian", but Rogers was having none of it, and in fact Hawtrey had less to do in this film than he might have liked.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The six unemployed jobseekers, who go through comedic jobs and tasks in order to find the right one for them.
* SerialSpouse: The famous actor that Lily visits claims to have just ended his fifth marriage and promises to maker her number six. Naturally, she's having none of it.
* ShoutOut: The Forth Bridge sequence parodies a sequence in ''Film/{{The 39 Steps|1935}}''.
* SillySimian: Francis with a monkey and struggling to be taken seriously by passers-by.
* SmokyGentlemensClub: Sam is requested to work at one with a rule of "silence".

* TheUnintelligible: The agency's landlord is played by "Professor" Stanley Unwin, who speaks entirely in his made-up language of "Unwinese". The language itself involves assorted creative twists on English words, but he speaks so quickly that only a careful listener will be able to follow him. In-universe, Francis is the only one who can understand him, but he is away the first and second time the landlord tries to explain to Bert that he has had a better offer for their premises, and they must leave by the end of the month.
* WaterGunsAndBalloons: [[spoiler:The result of malfunctioning water pipes at a half-demolished house.]]

They are given a succession of ludicrous jobs, such as Francis taking a monkey for a walk and becoming a translator for a bilingual married couple, Lily getting drunk at a wine-tasting event, Gabe entering the boxing ring, Sam taking on a spy persona and Bert being mistaken a famous diagnostician.

''Regardless'' is based around a job center named Helping Hands that works with the unemployed or job-seekers, run by Bert Handy (James) and his assistant Miss Cooling (Esma Cannon). Seven people turn up to join the agency for a new start - unhappy labour exchange clerk Sam Twist (Connor) and six labour exchange regulars, the upper class Montgomery Infield-Hopping (Longdon), the working class Mike Weston (Owen), the multilingual Francis Courtenay (Williams), the clumsy Gabriel Dimple (Hawtrey), the brassy Lily Duveen (Sims), and the more reserved Delia King (Fraser).

They are given a succession of ludicrous jobs, such as Francis becoming a translator for a bilingual married couple and looking after a monkey, Lily becoming drunk in a wine-tasting event, Gabby entering the boxing ring, Sam confusing phone calls and a group of nuns being sent to a hospital. HilarityEnsues.

** '''Tr'''udy and '''Tr'''evor '''Tr'''elawney.

** '''D'''ynamite '''D'''an.

''Carry On Regardless'' is a 1961 film and the fifth ''Film/CarryOn'' film in the popular British film series. It starred Creator/SidJames, Creator/KennethConnor, Creator/CharlesHawtrey, Creator/JoanSims, Creator/KennethWilliams, Bill Owen, Liz Fraser, Terence Longdon, and Esma Cannon.

''Regardless'' is based around a job center named Helping Hands that works with the unemployed or job-seekers, run by Bert Handy (James) and his assistant Miss Cooling (Cannon). Seven people turn up to join the agency for a new start - unhappy labour exchange clerk Sam Twist (Connor) and six labour exchange regulars, the upper class Montgomery Infield-Hopping (Longdon), the working class Mike Weston (Owen), the multilingual Francis Courtenay (Williams), the clumsy Gabriel Dimple (Hawtrey), the brassy Lily Duveen (Sims), and the more reserved Delia King (Fraser).

* SmokyGentlemensClub: Sam is requested to work at one with a rule of "silence". Unfortunately all of the old gentlemen keep doing things that make him laugh and he [[{{Corpsing}} has a hard time keeping a straight face]].

''Regardless'' is based around a job center named Helping Hands that works with the unemployed or job-seekers, run by Bert Handy (James) and his assistant Miss Cooling (Cannon). Seven people turn up to join the agency for a new start - unhappy labour exchange clerk Sam Twist (Connor) and six labour exchange regulars, the upper class Montgomery Infield-Hopping (Longdon), the working class Mike Weston (Owen), the multilingual Francis Courtenay (Williams), the clumsy Gabby Dimple (Hawtrey), the brassy Lily Duveen (Sims), and the more reserved Delia King (Fraser).

** '''Tr'''udy '''Tr'''elawney.
** '''Tr'''evor '''Tr'''elawney.

''Carry On Regardless'' is the fifth ''Film/CarryOn'' film in the popular British film series. It starred Creator/SidneyJames, Creator/JoanSims, Creator/CharlesHawtrey, Creator/TerrenceLongdon, [[Series/LastOfTheSummerWine Bill Owen]], Creator/KennethConnor, Creator/EsmaCannon, Creator/KennethWilliams and Creator/LizFraser.

''Regardless'' is based around a job center named Helping Hands that works with the unemployed or job-seekers, run by Bert Handy (James) and his assistant Miss Cooling (Cannon). Seven people turn up to join the agency for a new start -- unhappy labour exchange clerk Sam Twist (Connor) and six labour exchange regulars, the upper class Montgomery Infield-Hopping (Longdon), the working class Mike Weston (Owen), the multilingual Francis Courtenay (Williams), the clumsy Gabby Dimple (Hawtrey), the brassy Lily Duveen (Sims), and the more reserved Delia King (Fraser).

Did we mention there was a monkey?

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Francis with a monkey and struggling to be taken seriously by passers-by.

[[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys Did we mention there was a monkey?]]

They are given a succession of ludicrous jobs, such as Francis becoming a translator for a bilingual married couple and looking after [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys a monkey]], Lily becoming drunk in a wine-tasting event, Gabby entering the boxing ring, Sam confusing phone calls and a group of nuns being sent to a hospital. HilarityEnsues.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** "Get stuffed" was considered strong language for 1961, but the script found a way to sneak it in obliquely in the film's first scene while Bert and Miss Cooling are lamenting the initial lack of replies to their "help wanted" advert:
--->'''Miss Cooling:''' Never mind, Mr Handy, I'm sure you'll get staffed.\\
'''Bert:''' Eh?? ''(realises, smiles)'' Oh, "''staffed''".
** When the seven employees accidentally receive the wrong addresses for the jobs to which they have been assigned, Gabby ends up going to a strip club instead of an aviary. The following conversation results:
--->'''Proprietor:''' What do you want?\\
'''Gabby:''' Your birds, and I can't wait. Tell me, what sort are they?\\
'''Proprietor:''' What sort d'you like?\\
'''Gabby:''' Blue tits.\\
'''Proprietor:''' Eh?\\
'''Gabby:''' Have you got any?\\
'''Proprietor:''' No, no, this place is centrally heated.

* {{Adorkable}}: Sam. [[Creator/KennethConnor What other actor]] in these ''Carry On'' films could portray a man that confuses phone call messages?