Carry On Camping (1968)
 Carry
On Camping has no plot to speak of - it is simply a collection
of familiar eccentrics going on a camping holiday.
But when Sid
Boggle and Bernie Lugg take their girlfriends to the Paradise
Camp, the lecherous pair think they're off to a nudist colony.
They couldn’t be more wrong.
At the same time, snooty headmaster of a girls' school, Kenneth
Williams, and school matron, Hattie Jacques are organising a trip
back to nature for their over-sized and over-sexed girls.
 The middle-class businessman brigade is represented by a
pin-striped Terry Scott, who is quickly out of his suit and into
country gear for yet another horrendous camping holiday with
nagging wife, Betty Marsden.
Meanwhile, on the other side of town,
Charles Hawtrey is having a bit of difficulty with Valerie Leon in
a tent.
For the first half hour or so we follow these various misfits
through their struggling and hilarious attempts to find the
glorious 'Paradise Holiday Camp'.
Once the team are settled safely in the field, Sid and Bernard
approach the sexy nymphets of Barbara Windsor and Sandra Caron,
Hattie tries to lure Kenneth into her tent, Charles Hawtrey
reunites with a less-than-keen Terry Scott and an all-night
rave-up in the adjoining field threatens to disrupt several plans
for sexual coupling.
At the end, everybody's happy, it's been a whiz-bang cascade
through a clutch of loosely linked sketches and comic devices, but
the Carry Ons came out on top with a timelessly funny
example of the team's work and the biggest money-making film of
the year.
"No Barbara . . . tent up first, bunk up later".
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