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Enter Barbara Windsor
Carry On Spying marked the debut appearance in a Carry On Film of the bubbly Barbara Windsor who would become a sex symbol in the series. This amusing paraody of the James Bond films is another classic in the series. Desmond Simpkins (Kenneth Williams) along with his three extra-special agents by his side (Barbara Windsor, Bernard Cribbins, Charles Hawtrey) all plot to take on the malevolent powers of STENCH, namely Dr. Crow, Milchmann and The Fat Man, members of the Society for the Extinction of non-conforming Humans. Clues to the exact location of STENCH HQ lead the quartret of spies into the heart of Harry Lime country in Vienna, the Casbah and finally the corridors of the Orient Express. <
>Fun and adventures all the way with the gangs reaching new heights of invention and parody in this one. The cast are all excellent, especially Barbara Windsor who sparkles in every scene. A comic gem! <
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"You look lovely. Full of Eastern promise."
"Carry On Spying" is a spoof of the secret agent film genre, and it certainly acts as an antidote to those impossibly slick James Bond films. In "Carry On Spying", a foreign agent from STENCH (The Society for the Total Extinction of Non Conforming Humans) steals a secret formula, and a crew of bumbling British agents are sent in pursuit. Agent Desmond Simpkins (the preening, snooty Kenneth Williams) is in charge of the mission and is accompanied by three other trainee agents--Harold Crump (Bernard Cribbins), Daphne Honeybutt (Barbara Windsor), and Charlie Bind (Charles Hawtrey). The four "most stupid agents Britain ever produced" head for Vienna, and end up in Morocco where Daphne Honeybutt uses her considerable charms to get the formula from foreign agent, the Fat Man. <
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>Barbara Windsor always portrayed a bubbly--but often dense character--and the role of Daphne Honeybutt is a classic for this actress. Daphne, with her photographic memory, is actually the most competent of the four agents--but the men on the team hold her back with their general ineptitude. She's even told, "to stay in your room like a good girl" at one point. Most Carry On films include one male character who dresses (rather preposterously) as a woman, and in "Carry On Spying", Bernard Cribbins teams with the luscious, pert Barbara Windsor in a harem scene at Hakim's Fun House. <
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>Carry On films were a series of tremendously popular lowbrow comedy films made over a period of several decades in Britain. The Carry On team included some of the best talent in the British acting industry. Sid James--one of the Carry On team's most popular members is absent from "Carry On Spying", but if you're a fan of the series, you'll want to watch it. It's not hysterically funny, but it's good natured, silly fun, with some very popular members of the team wearing preposterous disguises while suffering through some wildly perilous situations--displacedhuman.

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The Funniest 'Carry On'!
I have seen 30 of the 31 'Carry On' films, and this one is the best. It was the 9th one in the series and was the first one to star Barbara Windsor as Daphne Hunnybutt. When asked for her number she replies, '38-22-35', which happen to be her 'vital thingammyjigs'. Charles Hawtrey plays Charlie bind, agent 0.0.0 ('when they looked at me they said, Oo-oo, Oooh!') along with other characters. The team are on a mission- to Vienna to fight against the STENCH men. It is so funny and the terrible puns, 'oh well, hair today and gone tommorrow', double inuendos, 'I'm sure I'll never get my draws off as slickly as that' and sight gags, such as when they enter a restaurant and Kenneth Williams terrible costume of a beard and hat is removed by a waitress, revealing the man himself. It really is a very funny play on the spying theme with an excellant cast and wonderful story, not to be missed!