Full cast list:
Sid James as Sid Plummer
Kenneth Williams as WC Boggs
Charles Hawtrey as Charles Coote
Hattie Jacques as Beattie Plummer
Joan Sims as Chloe Moore
Bernard Bresslaw as Bernie Hulke
Kenneth Cope as Vic Spanner
Jacki Piper as Myrtle Plummer
Richard O'Callaghan as Lewis Boggs
Patsy Rowlands as Hortense Withering
Davy Kaye as Benny
Bill Maynard as Fred Moore
Renée Houston as Agatha Spanner
Marianne Stone as Maud
Margaret Nolan as Popsy
Geoffrey Hughes as Willie
Hugh Futcher as Ernie
Simon Cain as Barman
Amelia Bayntun as Mrs Spragg
Leon Greene as Chef
Harry Towb as Film doctor
Shirley Stelfox as Bunny waitress
Peter Burton as Hotel manager
Julian Holloway as Roger
Anouska Hempel as New canteen girl
Jan Rossini as Hoopla girl
Philip Stone as Mr Bulstrode (unaccredited)
Crew and other details:
Screenplay – Talbot Rothwell
Music – Eric Rogers
Production Manager – Jack Swinburne
Art Director – Lionel Couch
Editor – Alfred Roome
Director of Photography – Ernest Steward
Camera Operator – James Bawden
Make-up – Geoffrey Rodway
Continuity – Rita Davidson
Assistant Director – David Bracknell
Sound Recordists – Danny Daniel & Ken Barker
Hairdresser – Stella Rivers
Costume Designer – Courtenay Elliott
Set Dresser – Peter Howitt
Assistant Art Director – William Alexander
Dubbing Editor – Brian Holland
Titles – GSE Ltd
Processor – Rank Film Laboratories
Toilets – Royal Doulton Sanitary Potteries
Assistant Editor – Jack Gardner
Producer – Peter Rogers
Director – Gerald Thomas
Interiors:
Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire
Exteriors:
Brighton – Palace Pier. The West Pier in Brighton was used two years later for Carry On Girls.
Brighton – Clarges Hotel. The same location was also used in the later Carry On Girls.
Pinewood Studios. The studio's wood storage area was used as the exterior of WC Boggs' factory
Pinewood Green, Pinewood Estate. Sid Plummer's house and the Moores' house
The Red Lion, Shreding Green, Buckinghamshire
Odeon Cinema, Uxbridge. (demolished in September 1984)
Heatherden Hall, Pinewood Studios
Black Park Country Park, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire.
Cinematography Ernest Steward
Edited Alfred Roome
Distributed Rank Organisation
Release date December 1971
Running time 90 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Budget £220,000