Don't Lose Your Head

Don't Lose Your Head (often Carry On Don't Lose Your Head) is the thirteenth Carry On film (and one of only two not to have "Carry On" in the original title). It features regular team members Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey and Joan Sims. French actress Dany Robin makes her only Carry On appearance in Don't Lose Your Head. It was released in 1966. Set in France and England in 1789 during the French revolution, it is a parody of Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Plot
It is the time of the French Revolution, and two bored English noblemen, Sir Rodney Ffing (pronounced "Effing") and his best friend, Lord Darcy Pue, (played by Sid James and Jim Dale respectively) decide to have some fun and save their French counterparts from beheading by the guillotine.

Enraged revolutionary leader Citizen Camembert (Kenneth Williams) and his toadying lackey, Citizen Bidet (Peter Butterworth), scour France and England for the elusive saviour of the French nobles, who has become known as The Black Fingernail. After abducting the Fingernail's true love, Jacqueline (Dany Robin), Camembert and Bidet plot to lure the Fingernail to his death... oblivious that Desiree (Joan Sims), Camembert's flamboyant mistress, is herself in love with the hero and will do all she can to save him from the guillotine.

[edit] Issues
The film highlights the issue of revolutionaries who, though they publicly claim to be fighting "for the people", are actually looking out for themselves. This is shown in Camembert who has amassed a vast collection of luxury items and possessions from his aristocratic victims.

[edit] Crew

 * Screenplay - Talbot Rothwell
 * Music - Eric Rogers
 * Song - Bill Martin & Phil Coulter
 * Performers - Michael Sammes Singers
 * Production Manager - Jack Swinburne
 * Director of Photography - Alan Hume
 * Editor - Rod Keys
 * Art Director - Lionel Couch
 * Camera Operator - Jimmy Devis
 * Assistant Director - Jack Causey
 * Sound Editor - W Nelson
 * Sound Recordists - Dudley Messenger & Ken Barker
 * Continuity - Rita Davison
 * Make-up - Geoffrey Rodway
 * Hairdressing - Stella Rivers
 * Costume Designer - Emma Selby-Walker
 * Choreographer - Terry Gilbert
 * Horse Master - Jeremy Taylor
 * Producer - Peter Rogers
 * Director - Gerald Thomas

[edit] Filming and locations
Interiors: Exteriors:
 * Filming dates – 12 September-28 October 1966
 * Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire
 * Clandon Hall, Guildford, Surrey, England
 * Claydon Park, Claydon, Buckinghamshire, England
 * Cliveden, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
 * Waddesdon Manor, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, England, UK