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What a Carry On!

What a Carry On!

1949 · 94 min · ★ 7.3 · Comedy

Northern comedy greats, Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss, decide to enlist in the army. Their singing sergeant-major, the Irish tenor Josef Locke, misappropriates the mess funds. When he picks on Jewel and Warriss, the duo’s comic routines come thick and fast.

Directed by John E. Blakeley · Written by John E. Blakeley

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