Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44095 in DVD
• Released on: 2001-08-27
• Rating: Universal, suitable for all
• Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Black & White, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 87 minutes

DVD Description
DVD Special Features:

Interactive Menus
Scene Access
Subtitles: none
Dolby Digital

Synopsis
This CARRY ON film features the bumbling workers at the Helping Hands agency--odd people who are capable of botching any task. The cast includes Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, and Kenneth Williams.

From the Back Cover
It's non-stop romps as the Carry On team deliver the goods in one of the rudest and funniest of the Carry On films. The cast are all on top form as a bunch of no-hopers who join an agency in search for a job. The anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimps' tea-party, trying to stay sober at a wine-tasting and demolishing a house.

The Carry On regulars, including Sydney James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey and Kenneth Connor are joined by the buxom Fennella Fielding, Patrick Cargill and Nicholas Parsons.

Customer Reviews

Carry On No.5
Following hot on the trail of Carry On Constable (1959), Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas came up with a slightly less ambitious comedy with Carry On Regardless. There is really no strong backbone of a plot in this one with it centering around The Helping Hands Agency. The Agency takes on six unemployed men and women and one of the clerks at the labour exchange who decides to join them in a quest for a new, more exciting job. They each find themselves plunged into a very odd, diverse range of assigments, which range from taking a chimp out for the day, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting and demonstrating new pieces of equipment at the Ideal home Exhibition. Of course being a Carry on film, everything they put their hands to turns horribly wrong! As there is just basically a series of sketches, the film overly feels disjointed and there is a feeling of something missing that you can't quite put your finger on. This is, however, nothing to do with the cast who are all on top form and are all clearly having a ball. The cast of regulars include Sid James, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jaques (yet again in the role of Matron) and the bumbling ecccentric, Kenneth Connor. Certainly some laughs to be had and some sequences are consistently amusing but the film is patchy and at times shows signs of not quite knowing where its going. If you're a big carry on fan then its still worth a look.

Buy it if you're a Liz Fraser fan
The criticisms of this film are fair enough,it isn't a great film,although I prefer this early 60s effort to the later smuttier 1970's Carry On films which were desperately trying to keep up with the soft porn Confessions type comedies(and failing miserably). It is episodic and clunky but if you're a fan of the lovely,buxom Liz Fraser then this is a must buy. Liz has many scenes including the famous one of Liz in bra and panties,even better than the one in THE AMOROUS PRAWN which came out at a similar time to Carry On Regardless. Recommended for Liz fans.

A series of sketches featuring the Helping Hands agency.
This fifth instalment of the Carry On... series was more of a series of sketches. Now that the series was a top box office money-spinner for producer Peter Rogers, director Gerald Thomas and screenwriter Norman Hudis, they were inundated with ideas from the public. The answer was to take the best of these ideas and turn them into incidents featuring members of a "Helping Hands" agency. Manager of the agency was Sidney James and his team included Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Connor, Bill Owen, Terence Longdon (his last Carry On...), Liz Fraser and Joan Sims. The best of the sketches include Sims getting drunk at a wine tasting and Hawtrey ending up in a boxing match. Some sketches work better than others. The whole team at the "Ideal House Exhibition" works, the whole team cleaning one of their landlord's properties at the end doesn't. But the joy as always is to watch a team of comic geniuses at work.