A strike rarely comes alone

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Movie
German title A strike rarely comes alone
Original title Carry On at Your Convenience
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1971
length 86 minutes
Rod
Director Gerald Thomas
script Talbot Rothwell
production Peter Rogers
music Eric Rogers
camera Ernest Steward
cut Alfred Roome
occupation
synchronization
chronology

←  Predecessor
Heinrichs Bettgeschichten or How Garlic Came to England

Successor  →
The totally crazy head nurse

A strike rarely comes alone (also It's crazy - a strike rarely comes alone ) is the twenty-second film in the series of carry-on ... films . This episode is also peppered with ambiguous allusions and a verbal exchange of blows between those involved.

action

WC Boggs is the owner of the small WC Boggs & Son factory that produces toilets . However, incompetent management and Vic Spanner, union representative , who calls on workers to strike again and again for the most trivial reasons, hinder the company's well-being. In all of his activities, Vic is in constant battle against junior boss Lewis Boggs, who has been trying to keep Myrtle, the daughter of foreman Sid Plummers, lately. Vic also has an eye on her and so a real contest for her beloved breaks out between the two, which Lewis wins in the end.

As self-confident as Spanner appears in the company, he has little standing at home with his mother. She's always reproaching him that he should work instead of just stirring up people. She is not entirely wrong with this, because Bogg's company has a lucrative contract in prospect and if he does not manage to deliver 1000 bidets for a sheikh's harem within 2 months , his factory is about to be shut down. Surprisingly, Sid Plummers steps in for the necessary pre-financing, which is rejected by the bank. For the last few weeks he has been able to predict the winner of the weekly horse race very accurately and accordingly regularly wins every desired sum. But the completion of the bidets is in jeopardy when Vic calls the next strike, which has now stretched over two weeks. Even the company outing to Brighton that has been planned for a long time does not bring people back to their senses. Vic continues to urge them to strike. But when his mother learns that his stubbornness is about to ruin the company, she takes action. In front of his colleagues, she puts her grown son over her knee and spanks his butt. It also convinces the workers to start working again immediately.

background

Filming took place at Pinewood Studios London, Odeon Cinema, West Pier , Clarges Hotel and Brighton Harbor , Twyfords near Stoke-on-Trent , Black Park at Iver Heath, Farnham Common and Wexham in Buckinghamshire .

Reviews

The critics of the TV magazine TV-Today rated: "A sanitary supply factory goes on strike because of shortened tea breaks ... A grip in the toilet!"

synchronization

The German dubbing was only created in 1994 on behalf of RTL .

role actor Voice actor
Sid Plummer Sidney James Alwin Joachim Meyer
WC Boggs Kenneth Williams Reinhard Glemnitz
Charles Coote Charles Hawtrey Michael Rüth
Bernie Hulke Bernard Bresslaw Michael Gahr
Fred Moore Bill Maynard Klaus Guth

media

DVD release

  • It's crazy - a strike rarely comes alone. MMP / AmCo 2006

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Filming locations from the Internet Movie Database , accessed on February 24, 2019.
  2. ↑ movie review at tvtoday.de, accessed on February 24 of 2019.
  3. ↑ A strike rarely occurs alone in the German dubbing index; Retrieved September 6, 2007