Carry On & On

Please Turn Over (Peter Rogers; Columbia) carries on the pell-mell misadventures of the producer-director team and some of the players responsible for the success of the British Carry On farces (Carry On Nurse, Doctor, etc.). There was really no need to change the title, unless the producers wanted to capitalize on its suggestiveness; this one could just as well have been called Carry On Suburbia. A teen-age girl, charmingly played by Julia Lockwood (daughter of Actress Margaret), writes a scandalous bestseller called Naked Revolt, and the whole town plays the guessing game of matching members of the author's family with their racy counterparts in what is taken to be a roman a clef.

Scenes from the book are played out onscreen as a sort of parenthesis to the main action. Dads, really a prosaic accountant, is shown as an embezzler who, "desperate for just a little snooky-ookums," squanders his company's loot on his secretary. Auntie is a dipso who makes love to a skeleton. The family doctor is a leering, lolloping office Lothario. Mums is carrying on with her driving instructor, and the authoress herself is driven to wicked ways in the big city.

Corny? Sure. Funny? Yes--not in the tradition of the dry, understated comedy that made the British film industry famous after war's end but in the loud, raucous vein of I'm All Right, Jack.

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