This was the seventh film in the famous line of British comedy films, this seemingly the best of the black and white ones, I didn't really read any reviews like that before, I just wanted to see it because I had seen many of the others. Basically Speedee Taxis run by workaholic owner Charlie Hawkins (Sid James) is a successful business, but it is causing him to neglect his wife Peggy (Hattie Jacques). On the day of their fifteenth wedding anniversary he manages to remember a thoughtful present, but when she wants to go out for a meal he blows it, with extra delay from expectant father Jeremy (Jim Dale) and his heavily pregnant wife. Peggy is so mad with him that she decides to give him a taste of his own medicine by taking all his savings out of the bank to create her own rival taxi service called GlamCabs, an all attractive women drivers service. She is lying to Charlie that she has got a new job, and he soon finds out about the new rival taxi business, but he has no idea that his wife is the owner, and Flo Sims (Esma Cannon), another neglected wife, is the office manager. While trying to compete with his new unknown rival, becoming successful because of men wanting to ogle at the sexy girl, Charlie also struggles to keep order with some of his drivers, including the accident prone Terry 'Pintpot' Tankard (Charles Hawtrey), and of course bankruptcy. Soon enough Peggy is feeling guilty for what she is doing to her husband, and after a failed attempted sabotage he does find out the identity of the rival company owner and starts drinking. Then on one of their runs Peggy and Flo have two robbers with guns get in the taxi and want them to drive them to get away, luckily they put the radio on to get Charlie and all the Speedee Taxis on their case. In the end after a big chase and the bad guys captured by all the surrounding cabs, Peggy and Charlie kiss and make up, and celebrate the news that she is pregnant. Also starring Kenneth Connor as Ted Watson, Liz Fraser as Sally, Bill Owen as Smiley Sims, Milo O'Shea as Len, Judith Furse as Battleaxe and Amanda Barrie as Anthea. The cast as always are all great fun, especially Hawtrey as the hapless and silly taxi driver who causes chaos, the film has a bit more innuendo and sexuality than seen before, this obviously develops more later, and it is a fun story, a good comedy. Carry On films were number 39 on The 100 Greatest Pop Culture Icons. Worth watching!
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