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The Cloakroom Girl takes Simkins’s hat, coat and false beard when he arrives at the Café Mozart in Spying.

CLOTSKI, CORPORAL

Played by John Bluthal

A corporal in the Foreign Legion, he reports to Sergeant Nocker in Follow That Camel.

CLUB RECEPTIONIST

Played by George Street

Works at the Philosophers’ Club and is seen in Regardless. Speaks to Sam Twist when he arrives to replace Old Lou, who’s ill. Doesn’t believe Twist will be up to the job and is proved right when he has to escort him off the premises because he can’t refrain from laughing at some of the geriatrics at the club.

CARRY ON CLEO

An Anglo Amalgamated film

A Peter Rogers production

Distributed through Warner-Pathe Distribution Ltd

Released as an A certificate in 1964 in colour

Running time: 92 mins

CAST

(Uncredited ‘Companions’: Stuart Monro, Forbes Douglas, Billy Cornelius, Peter Fraser, Frederick Beauman and Keith Buckley.)

PRODUCTION TEAM

Screenplay by Talbot Rothwell

Music composed and conducted by Eric Rogers

Associate Producer: Frank Bevis

Art Director: Bert Davey

Director of Photography: Alan Hume

Editor: Archie Ludski

Camera Operator: Godfrey Godar

Assistant Director: Peter Bolton

Unit Manager: Donald Toms

Continuity: Olga Brook

Make-up: Geoffrey Rodway

Sound Editor: Christopher Lancaster

Sound Recordists: Bill Daniels and Gordon K. McCallum

Hairdressing: Ann Fordyce

Costume Designer: Julie Harris

Producer: Peter Rogers

Director: Gerald Thomas

Caesar (Kenneth Williams) looks to the heavens for inspiration

Amanda Barrie in fine form as Cleo

Hengist Pod’s simple life as a wheelmaker specialising in making square wheels is forever changed when the Romans arrive and ransack his village. While his new neighbour, Horsa, stays with the rest of the villagers to try and fight off the Romans, Hengist jumps on his square-wheeled contraption and heads off to seek help. He hasn’t gone far before his fragile vehicle collapses and he ends up thumbing a lift; when he gratefully accepts a ride in a wagon, he jumps in the back only to find he’s in the company of his fellow cavemen, including Horsa, who’ve been taken prisoner by the Romans.

As they head for Rome, Julius Caesar is anxious to leave the damp British climate behind for sunnier skies back home; when a message arrives warning that Brutus might be planning to take over the throne in his absence, he rushes back to be met by a less than rapturous welcome.

Caesar has become so unpopular that even his father-in-law, Seneca, is having premonitions about his impending doom. Caesar consults the Vestal Virgins but as he enters the Temple of Vesta, Bilius, his personal bodyguard, takes out his sword with the intention of slaying his leader. Unbeknown to Caesar, Horsa and Hengist Pod have escaped from the slave market and are hiding with the Vestal Virgins, and a mix-up leaves numerous Roman soldiers dead and Hengist hailed as the hero by Caesar who, believing he saved his life, makes him a centurion and personal bodyguard.

Treachery is rife. When Mark Antony is sent by Caesar to see Cleopatra, the Queen of the Nile, he succumbs to her charm and beauty; when Cleopatra mentions how good they could be together if Mark Anthony was emperor of Rome, he plans to topple Caesar. Upon returning to Rome, he tells the Roman leader that Cleopatra wants to meet him, although the plan is for Caesar to be killed en route. The Roman soldiers on the ship who intend murdering Caesar are all killed by the galley slaves who manage to escape; Caesar, however, doesn’t know this and, thinking the soldiers are out to get him, pushes Hengist out to deal with the rebels. A quivering wreck, Hengist soon perks up when he finds the soldiers already dead, so pretends to have killed them himself, thereby gaining even more respect from his new boss.

When Mark Antony’s plans to kill Caesar at sea are thwarted, he hatches another one with Cleopatra inviting him to her bedchamber. But when he’s told of a premonition depicting his death, Caesar decides against going and sends Hengist Pod instead. When he climbs on the bed with Cleopatra it collapses on top of Mark Antony, who was waiting underneath to kill Caesar. Before long, Horsa and the other galley slaves, who’ve entered the palace in search of food, come to Hengist’s rescue again.

Despite surviving all the failed murder attempts, it isn’t long before Caesar bites the dust, leaving Mark Antony free to team up with Cleopatra, Horsa to marry his long-lost love, Gloria, and Hengist to become a new man and father plenty of kids.

CLULOW, JENNIFER

Role: 1st Lady in Don’t Lose Your Head

Born in Grimsby, Humberside, in 1942, Jennifer Clulow trained at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama before beginning her career on a world tour of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s King Lear and Comedy of Errors. Further West End work followed including a leading role in the musical 4000 Brass Halfpennies , as well as repertory work.

She began appearing on screen from the mid-1960s. She presented the children’s series, Disney Wonderland , a cookery series for ATV and read the news for Westward Television. When TVS opened its doors, Clulow – who played Catherine in the famous Cointreau adverts – worked as an announcer.

Other television credits include The Baron, The Avengers, Department S, Lovejoy, Bergerac and, in 1993, Keeping Up Appearances. For two years she played Claire Clarkson in The Troubleshooters and Jessica Dalton in Granada’s series, Mr Rose.