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Carry On Cleo

"The Funniest Film Since 54 B.C."

Two Britons—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Julius Caesar.

Top Cast

  • Sidney James

    Sidney James

    Mark Antony

  • Kenneth Williams

    Kenneth Williams

    Julius Caesar

  • Kenneth Connor

    Kenneth Connor

    Centurion Hengist Pod

  • Charles Hawtrey

    Charles Hawtrey

    Seneca

  • Joan Sims

    Joan Sims

    Calpurnia

  • Jim Dale

    Jim Dale

    Horsa

  • Amanda Barrie

    Amanda Barrie

    Cleopatra

  • Victor Maddern

    Victor Maddern

    Sergeant-Major

  • Julie Stevens

    Julie Stevens

    Gloria

Overview

Two Britons—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Julius Caesar.

Rating

6.6 / 10
103 Reviews
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  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    7 Apr 10, 2024

    A pretty paranoid Caesar (Kenneth Williams) is anything but the hero of legend. Luckily, he has the brave "Hengist" (Kenneth Connor) to protect him. He is a captured Briton who has sworn to protect his master - except, well, it's a bit of mistaken identity and he's really just an useless inventor who is even more yellow than his boss. Conspiracies abound at the court of the eponymous and flirtatious, milk-bathing, queen (Amanda Barrie) and with Mark Antony (Sid James), Agrippa (Francis De Wolff) and Seneca (Charles Hawtrey) all plotting away to stay alive, take control of the empire, seduce anyone/everyone - it's an ideal courtly scenario for the gang to get up to some high jinx. "Infamy, infamy - the've all got it infamy!" has got to be one of the most famous lines in the English language and this joyful depiction of all things phnaa phnaa works well for ninety minutes. It looks good, there's some effort gone into the quite witty and clever writing, the costumes and the sets (clearly made of polystyrene). The ensemble effort delivered by the team, aided as always by the sparingly used but on-form Joan Sims as the put upon Calpurnia, reminded me of why, at times, this series of films was worth watching. Amongst the best, I'd say.

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