Carry On Spying

1964 87 min ★ 6.4 Comedy

Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and Charlie Bind, aided and abetted by the comely Agent Honeybutt and Agent Crump, battle against the evil powers of international bad guys STENCH and their three cronies.

Cast

Kenneth Williams

Agent Desmond Simpkins

Barbara Windsor

Agent Daphne Honeybutt

Bernard Cribbins

Agent Harold Crump

Charles Hawtrey

Agent Charlie Bind

Eric Barker

The Chief

Dilys Laye

Lila

Jim Dale

Agent Carstairs

Richard Wattis

Cobley

Eric Pohlmann

Emile Fauzak, the "Fat Man"

Victor Maddern

Milchmann

Details

Director

Gerald Thomas

Screenplay

Talbot Rothwell

Tagline

"Cloak And Dagger Operations Exposed. Secret Agent Charlie Bind O.O.O.H! Takes The Lid Off The Funniest Spy Story Of The Year!"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

Peter Rogers Productions, Warner-Pathé Distributors

Reviews

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John Chard

July 1, 2015

★ 9/10

I expected you to be a man... or a woman. The 9th in the Carry On series, and the last to be filmed in black and white, is one of the best. It finds the gang kind of biting the hand that feeds them, Pinewood. The home of James Bond was also the home of the Carry On mob, so with Peter Rogers, Gerald Thomas and Talbot Rothwell spying an opportunity to spoof 007, they did so, whilst also revelling...

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CinemaSerf

April 25, 2024

★ 6/10

The world is at the mercy of "STENCH" - a criminal entity set up to rid the world of something or other. Scraping the bottom of his agency barrel, the chief of MI6 must depend on the hapless "Simkins" (Kenneth Williams) to retrieve the situation and so together with his triplet of inexperienced trainees, they have to thwart the evil intentions of the menacing "Dr. Crow" (think of a larger version ...