The Complete A–Z of Everything Carry On. Richard Webber
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of her two big suitcases. He pulls out some of her frilly underthings and feels them suggestively, grinning at her, daring her to complain.
EMMANNUELLE: You won’t find anything in there.
CUSTOMS OFFICER: Pity. (Laughs like a hyena at his own cleverness.)
(The CUSTOMS OFFICER, still rifling through the suitcase, focuses his gaze on the front of EMMANNUELLE’s wrap-around dress.)
EMMANNUELLE: (With a challenge.) Nor in there.
(Theodore, wheeling his luggage by on a trolley, unhampered by a customs inspection, stops behind Emmannuelle. He clears his throat to attract her attention. Emmannuelle turns, gives Theodore just a cursory glance, then turns back to the Customs officer.)
(Theodore looks hurt, hesitates, then wheels his trolley towards the exit.)
CUSTOMS OFFICER: Ever been caught smugglin’ have you, darlin’?
EMMANNUELLE: I have nothing to declare and nothing to hide!
CUSTOMS OFFICER: (Still gaping at her.) That so?
(The Customs officer turns and gives a silent signal to a woman Customs official, who starts to walk towards them.)
INT. CUSTOMS INSPECTION ROOM, AIRPORT – DAY
(The uniformed woman Customs official is alone with Emmannuelle. The room is very small and as bare as a betting shop.)
CUSTOMS OFFICER: I have to ask you to remove all your clothing, if you don’t mind.
EMMANNUELLE: What for?
CUSTOMS OFFICER: We have reason to suspect you may be secreting something on your person.
EMMANNUELLE: What – something?
CUSTOMS OFFICER: That’s what we’re going to find out!
EMMANNUELLE: (Indignantly.) I am not a smooggler!
CUSTOMS OFFICER: Then you have nothing to worry about, do you?
(Emmannuelle’s mood switches from indignation to cunning. She stares at the Custom official’s body.)
EMMANNUELLE: I will, if you will.
CUSTOMS OFFICER: What?
EMMANNUELLE: I said – I will, if you will.
CUSTOMS OFFICER: (Trying to take her eyes off EMMANNUELLE’s body.) That’s not in the regulations.
EMMANNUELLE: Who cares about regulations?
INT. OUTSIDE CUSTOMS INSPECTION ROOM, AIRPORT – DAY
(The large brutish Customs officer is covertly peeping through the knothole in the wall. His expression is incredulous.)
INT. CUSTOMS INSPECTION ROOM, AIRPORT – DAY
(From Customs officer’s P.O.V. through knothole: Emmannuelle is undressed for inspection. So is the woman Customs official.)
CUTTING, SIR BERNARD
Played by Kenneth Williams
A top surgeon at Finisham Maternity Hospital in Matron, Sir Bernard spends most of his time worrying about his own ailments. A hypochondriac who one minute thinks he’s got Asian flu, the next believes he’s changing sex. Respected by many of his peers as well as those reporting to him, including Matron, whose feelings for Cutting go far beyond the line of duty. She’s smitten with Cutting but the feeling isn’t reciprocated, that is until Dr Goode convinces him that his worries regarding changing sex are due to an urgent desire to prove his masculinity. From that moment, Cutting tries to develop a relationship with Matron, ending in the sound of wedding bells.
CYNICAL LADY
Played by Joan Benham
Seen in Emmannuelle sitting at Emile Prevert’s dining-table, the Cynical Lady is a guest of the French Ambassador.
CYRIL
The cameraman who arrives at the Palace Hotel with Cecil Gaybody and the rest of the team working on the television programme, Women’s Things. Seen but not heard in Girls.
DALE, JIM
Roles: Expectant Father in Cabby, Carrier in Jack, Carstairs in Spying, Horsa in Cleo, Marshall P. Knutt in Cowboy, Albert Potter in Screaming!, Lord Darcy de Pue in Don’t Lose Your Head, Bertram Oliphant ‘Bo’ West in Follow That Camel, Dr Jim Kilmore in Doctor, Dr James Nookey in Again Doctor and Columbus in Columbus
Jim Dale, who was born in Rothwell, Northants, in 1935, imbued his characterisations with a vulnerability and naïvety, with no finer example than his beautifully portrayed Marshall P. Knutt in Cowboy. But he was equally adept at adopting a cheeky grin and have-a-laugh manner, which he used to great effect when crafting a medical persona for Doctor and Again Doctor.
A man of many talents, from singer and songwriter to comic and actor, Dale began to show an inclination towards a future life on the stage when, aged nine, he began studying dance and started performing in local amateur shows.
After leaving school he worked in a shoe factory but began developing a comedy act which he later toured around Variety music halls before having to interrupt his career to complete National Service in the RAF.
Moving into his twenties, he diversified and enjoyed success as a pop singer; four of his singles charted with his biggest hit,‘Be My Girl’, climbing to number two in October 1957. As well as appearing on the popular music show, Six·Five Special, he later hosted the show, by which time his face was instantly recognisable to the viewing public. His popularity also led to a spell spinning discs on a BBC radio show for a year.
His stage career started in earnest when he was offered the chance to play Autolycus in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, followed by the part of Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. By the beginning of the 1970s, when he’d made ten of his eleven Carry On appearances, he joined the National Theatre and proceeded to clock up numerous West End credits, including such productions as The Merchant of Venice, The Good Natured Man, The Burglar and The Card. It was his stage success that led to him settling in America. His impressive performances playing the lead in an adaptation of Molière’s Scapino in San Francisco and Broadway earned him several awards and plenty of job offers.
His screen career has mainly been in films, with credits including Raising the Wind, The Iron Maiden, Nurse on Wheels, The Big Job, The Plank, Lock Up Your Daughters!, Pete’s Dragon and Scandalous. His television roles, meanwhile, include appearances in The Equaliser and Cosby.
More recently, he’s recorded the Harry Potter audiobooks and picked up many awards for his efforts.
Albert Potter (Jim Dale) thinks he’s lost the love of his life (Screaming!)
DALE ROAD
A road mentioned in Cabby during the scene where Peggy and Sally are held at gunpoint by crooks while driving one of the Glamcabs.
DALE, SHEILA
Played by Carol White
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