Don't Lose Your Head
- 1966 film
In Paris, 1789, two dashing English noblemen rescue their French counterparts from Madame Guillotine and the republican revolutionaries. Stars Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Peter Butterworth and more.
Key details
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 1966
- Stars
- Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Peter Butterworth, Joan Sims, Dany Robin, Peter Gilmore and more
- Writer
- Talbot Rothwell
- Director
- Gerald Thomas
- Producer
- Peter Rogers
- Company
Increasingly bored of their laid-back and luxurious country-pile lifestyle, English aristocrats Sir Rodney Ffing and Lord Darcy Pue are alarmed at the news of revolution across the channel, and set out to create some adventure and save a few upper-class lives.
However, Citizen Camembert (aka le Grande Fromage) and his obedient second, Citizen Bidet, have no intention of letting them get away with it. Hot on the English duo's heels - but perhaps blinded by their revolutionary lust - the pair rush across France and England before capturing the peasant with whom Ffing has fallen in love.
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Additional details
- Part of
- UK certificate
- A
- Duration
- 87 minutes
- UK release
- Wednesday 14th December 1966
- Distributors
- Also known as
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- Carry On Pimpernel (US title)
- Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (Re-release title)
- Production
- Studio
- Camera set-up
- Single camera
- Picture
- Colour
- Soundtrack
- Title theme Don't Lose Your Head by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter, and performed by The Michael Sammes Singers. All other music composed and conducted by Eric Rogers.
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Broadcast details
- Most recent repeats
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- Sunday 31st December 2023 at 2:35am on ITV3
- Friday 29th December 2023 at 10:30am on ITV3
- Saturday 3rd June 2023 at 9:20am on ITV3
Recording details
- Pinewood Studios - Studios
- Cliveden - Sir Rodney's home
- Waddesdon Manor - Chateau Neuf
- Claydon Park - Interiors
- Clandon Hall - Interiors
- St. Mary's Church (Denham)