Line #4 Trivia/CarryOnSergeant


1	* ActorSharedBackground: Creator/HattieJacques, who played Captain Clark, the Medical Officer, was a nurse in the VAD during UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo.
2	* {{Blooper}}:
3	** When Captain Potts pins the chart to the training progress board, the intake is shown to be number 29. Despite this, at the end of the film it is announced to be 60th intake.
4	** After Peter swings across the training rope he lets go of it. However, in the next scene, he is once more holding the rope.
5	** As Sergeant Grimshawe runs with Corporal Copping to catch up to the Privates on the last day, he calls out "Left! Left! Left!" as he steps with his right foot.
6	* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/CyrilChamberlain plays the Gun Sergeant but had been noted as a possible choice for Sergeant Grimshawe if Creator/WilliamHartnell was unavailable.
7	* CompletelyDifferentTitle:
8	** Belgium: ''Let's Go, Sergeant''.
9	** Denmark: ''Attention Recruits''.
10	** Germany: ''Cheer Up, Chest Out!''.
11	** Hungary: ''Go on, Sergeant!''.
12	* TheDanza:
13	** Creator/BillOwen as Corporal Bill Copping.
14	** John Matthews as Sergeant Matthews.
15	* DawsonCasting: The National Service recruits, who should be in their late teens or early 20s, were all played by actors who were over 30 at the time of filming (in fact, Creator/CharlesHawtrey was over 40, Creator/KennethConnor nearly so).
16	* DeletedRole: Alec Bregonzi, in his film debut, was one of the storemen, and his scene cut at the last minute, leaving him in just a bit part.
17	* DeletedScene:
18	** Andy getting his kit from a storeman.
19	** On an episode of ''Des O'Connor Tonight'', Creator/BobMonkhouse recalls a scene of Charlie swinging over a mud pit on a rope that was unused.
20	** A scene that brought up the topic of rape was cut by the censors.
21	* DolledUpInstallment: The film was based on a play ''The Bull Boys'' by R. F. Delderfield and was adapted into a script by Norman Hudis with John Antrobus contributing additional material and replacing the conscripted ballet dancers of the novel with a married couple.
22	* DVDCommentary: With ''Film/CarryOn'' historian Robert Ross talking to Creator/ShirleyEaton (Mary Sage), Creator/DoraBryan (Norah), and Creator/TerenceLongdon (Private Miles Heywood).
23	* ExecutiveMeddling: Creator/BobMonkhouse's casting as the lead was at the insistence of Anglo-Amalgamated.
24	* FakeBrit: The Australian Creator/EdDevereaux plays the British Sergeant Russell.
25	* HostilityOnTheSet: There was tension between Bernard Kay and Creator/WilliamHartnell, and Hartnell desperately wanted him to be kicked off the project.
26	* ThePeteBest: Creator/BobMonkhouse, Creator/WilliamHartnell, and Creator/DoraBryan all had large roles in the film but never appeared again in the series.
27	* ReferencedBy: The film plays at the holiday camp cinema in the 1973 film ''That'll Be the Day''.
28	* SimilarlyNamedWorks: Another film made in Canada some 30 years earlier had the same title, although that one was not a comedy.
29	* ThrowItIn: Creator/KennethWilliams ad-libbed the word, "Charming!" when the large cap is placed on his head. Ad-libbing was usually frowned upon but on this occasion, it was kept in.
30	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
31	** At the earliest points of production, the film was intended to be a drama.
32	** Before Norman Hudis, writing duties were turned down by Creator/EricSykes and Creator/SpikeMilligan, while John Antrobus wrote a script that went unused barring a few character names staying the same.
33	** Creator/ValGuest was asked to direct the film before Creator/GeraldThomas.
34	** Creator/PeterRogers favoured George Cole for the role of Charlie before Creator/BobMonkhouse was cast.
35	** Gordon Tanner replaced John Stuart as the first specialist when his contract was cancelled.
36	** Patrick Newell was originally cast, but when he turned up on the first morning, he saw that the army sergeant who was going to drill the actors for the film was the same one that had drilled him when he was in the army and said that he wasn't going to go through that again and left.
37	** Terence Skelton was cast as "Fourteenth Recruit" but dropped out before filming.
38	** Starting a long-running series of censorship complaints in the series, the BBFC ordered several cuts to the script including all mentions of rape (seen as unmentionable for the "U" category), the phrase "the nuptials", the line "Man does not live by sausage rolls alone" (any jokes about Bible verses weren't allowed), and references to looking pregnant and "having been mucked about". They also insisted on removing the phrase "heap of chits" (for [[ParentheticalSwearing being used to allude to "heap of shit"]]), although it had already been filmed and Rogers managed to keep the offending scene in the film.
39	** A scene where Horace Strong complains about his vertigo and Sergeant Grimshawe tells him "vere to go" was considered too corny and cut from the script.
40	** Producer Rogers confirms on the DVDCommentary for ''Film/ThatsCarryOn'' that if Creator/WilliamHartnell was unavailable then Creator/CyrilChamberlain would've played Sergeant Grimshawe instead.
41	* WorkingTitle:
42	** R. F. Delderfield's original treatment was titled ''National Service Story''.
43	** Later on, it was also known as ''The Bull Boys'', ''The Long and the Short and the Tall'', and ''This Side of the Ocean''.
44	* WriteWhatYouKnow: John Antrobus used his time growing up in an army camp (his father was a Sergeant Major) and his two and a half years in the army to inspire his initial (unused) script.

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