Stuart Farquhar (Kenneth Williams) is the travel rep who is accompanying holidaymakers to the Mediterranean island of Elsbels. The travellers are an eclectic bunch and include pub owners Vic and Cora Flange (!), the amorous Stanley Blunt and his bossy ice maiden of a wife, Evelyn, Mummy’s boy Eustace Tuttle and monk Brother Bernard.

As this is a Carry On that takes place in the current day (well, 1972 that us), this acts as a fantastic time capsule with longer hair on the men, way-out fashions and bright colours (check out Charles Hawtrey’s trousers!)

There’s also some genuinely hilarious scenarios that both surreal and rip-roaringly funny. I loved the brothel punch-up that results in most of the characters being incarcerated, the scenes in Vic’s pub with his friend who suffers from violent twitches and the results of the spiked punch. The hotel falling down around them reminded me of the end of Follow That Camel.

Technicolour, surreal fun. And very saucy.

4 out of 5 stars