Carry On at Your Convenience

Continuity mistake: During the scene when Sid Plummer is seeing Vic and the other workers about a dispute, the position of Willie's arm on the basin in front of him changes between shots.

Continuity mistake: When Myrtle collides with Lewis when pushing her tea trolley, Lewis is initially standing in front of a notice board, but in the next shot he is standing in the front of the doors.

Continuity mistake: When Mr Boggs tells Miss Withering that "two weeks of this strike has finished us", you can see that that Miss Withering's cardigan is open but in the next shot it is now covering her shirt.

Continuity mistake: When Vic is telling his mother about the strike, he points his finger at her when he tells her was only doing it "for the good of the workers" and then he puts his hand down. But when his mother tells Vic that he's just like his father, we cut to Vic and he is pointing his finger at her again.

Continuity mistake: When Vic tries to drag Bernie out of the cinema, Vic initially has his hand under Bernie's arm but in the next shot his hand is now by his crash helmet.

Continuity mistake: When Vic Spanner meets the manager in the hotel, Vic shakes the manager's hand, but when we see the manager in the next shot, he now has his hands in front of his suit.

Continuity mistake: When Lewis and Myrtle are dancing at the club, Lewis bumps into Roger. At this point, Roger and Lewis are only a few inches apart from each other, but in the next shot they are now touching shoulders.

Continuity mistake: When Miss Withering tells Mr Boggs about the fortune teller at the Brighton Pier, Mr Boggs is eating some jellied eels and you can see he has his hand in the pot, but in the next shot his hand is now out of the pot.

Continuity mistake: During his conversation with Sid, Benny the Bookie's cigar grows shorter and larger between shots.

Factual error: About ten minutes into the film, in the scene where there is a staff meeting deciding whether they should strike, the junior assistant talks about how much tea breaks cost the company each week. He says something along the lines of 'each member of staff has 18 toilet visits a day due to drinking tea. At four minutes a time this contributes to 72 minutes each day lost. This means we lose 15 hours a week due to visits to the toilet'. Even if the staff worked seven days a week, this would only amount to 8.4 hours lost.

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Sid: How about some food?
Beattie: Well I could make you some beans on toast or something?
Sid: No, nothing too elaborate, thank you.

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Trivia: This was the first Carry On film to be a box-office failure and only broke even in 1978 after distribution rights and television deals.

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