Underplayed Gems

Don't Lose Your Head (1966)

Don't Lose Your Head poster
Directed by
Gerald Thomas
Genre
parody film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 62 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This is a spoof of the Scarlet Pimpernel story set during the French Revolution. A British aristocrat and his sidekick rescue nobles from the guillotine in a series of slapstick adventures.

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What happens

Don't Lose Your Head is a 1967 British swashbuckling comedy film, the 13th in the series of 31 Carry On films (1958–1992). It features regular team members Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, and Joan Sims. Set in France and England in 1789 during the French Revolution, it is a parody of Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel. The first Carry On to be produced by the Rank Organisation, Don't Lose Your Head was not conceived as a part of the series and was first released without the Carry On prefix. However, the ongoing popularity of the series persuaded Rank to add the prefix to the titles of this and the following film, Follow That Camel, when they were re-released. French actress Dany Robin makes here her only Carry On appearance. The film was followed by Carry On Follow That Camel (1967). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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