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On Location: The Carry Ons (2001)
Character: Rifle Range Owner (archive footage) (uncredited)
June Whitfield takes a look at some of the locations used during the making of the legendary 'Carry On' films.
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Sound an Alarm (1971)
Character: Post Observer
An instructional film released by the UK Warning and Monitoring Organization which depicts its operations in the lead-up to and aftermath of a hypothetical nuclear attack on the United Kingdom.
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Rumour (1970)
Character: N/A
A hard-bitten newspaper reporter is drawn back into the world of sleaze he had hoped to have left behind, and this time it goes right to the top.
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Breath of Life (1963)
Character: Tony
Freddie, a motor mechanic, rescues a baby, and twenty years later he offers to become responsible for him - Tony - when he is put on probation for petty theft. Tony abuses his kindness by involving Freddie's two adolescent children in a bank robbery, in which he panics and kills the cashier. With his associate, Spud, and the children, Harry and Monica, he makes for London.
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For the Love of Ada (1972)
Character: Brian
Walter and Ada Bingley celebrate their first wedding anniversary, unaware that that friends and family are planning a surprise party. Based on the 1970-71 sitcom of the same name.
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The Odd Job (1971)
Character: Passenger on Bus
A man is heartbroken after his wife walks out on him. Reasoning that he has nothing to live for, he hires a peculiar odd job man to kill him and put him out of his misery.
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Partners in Crime (1961)
Character: Pete Lake
British crime film directed by Peter Duffell and starring Bernard Lee, Moira Redmond and John Van Eyssen, loosely based on the 1918 novel "The Man Who Knew" by Edgar Wallace.
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Up the Junction (1968)
Character: Barrow Boy
A young woman trades her upper-class existence for a new life in an economically depressed suburb of London.
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Never Let Go (1960)
Character: Len
John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic organizer of a London car conversion racket. The car was not insured, and since the police appear indifferent to his plight, Cummings decides to find it himself -- and gets himself involved in an underworld battle.
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Carry On at Your Convenience (1971)
Character: Rifle Range Owner
At WC Boggs' Lavatory factory, Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat. However, eventually everyone gets fed up with him.
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Never Back Losers (1961)
Character: Clive Parker
Two rival gangs are trying to fix horse races and a jockey is attacked and left for dead in a stage-managed car crash. An insurance investigator makes routine enquiries into the "accident" and one of the gang leaders feels threatened by this and takes counter measures.
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Flame in the Streets (1961)
Character: Corner Boy
Domestic difficulties develop in a working-class family when their daughter falls in love with a Jamaican man.
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Character: Argumentative Man at Washing Centre (uncredited)
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.
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Too Young to Love (1960)
Character: N/A
A court case ensues when a 47-year old man is caught with a 15-year old girl, and he claims he never knew she was so young.
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Carry On Behind (1975)
Character: Electrician
Professors Vooshka and Crump decide to visit an archaeological site to study the artifacts there. Lo and behold, it's right next to a caravan site where all manner of people are staying. With a randy Major owning the site, a snobbish mother, and the two professors' constant innuendos, the story ends with a sinking caravan site and a striptease performance as a replacement for the cabaret night.
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On the Beat (1962)
Character: Yob in Café (uncredited)
Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform and "walks the beat". This leads to a level of chaos that only Pitkin could cause
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The Final Conflict (1981)
Character: Orator
Damien Thorn has helped rescue the world from a recession, appearing to be a benign corporate benefactor. When he then becomes U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Damien fulfills a terrifying biblical prophecy. He also faces his own potential demise as an astronomical event brings about the second coming of Christ.
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