Carry On Henry Carry On Henry Carry On Henry is the 21st in the series of "Carry On" films to be made and was released in 1971. It tells a fictionalised story involving Sid James as Henry VIII, who chases after Barbara Windsor's character Bettina. James and Windsor feature alongside other regulars Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Terry Scott and Kenneth Connor. This was the first time that Williams and Connor appeared together since Carry On Cleo seven years previously. The original alternative title was to be "Anne of a Thousand Lays", a pun on the Richard Burton film "Anne of the
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse "The Tiger of Eschnapur", "The Indian Tomb" and "The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse". The film made use of the character Doctor Mabuse invented by Norbert Jacques, whom Lang had used in two previous films back in 1922 ("Dr. Mabuse der Spieler", released in two parts) and 1933 ("Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse"). The script of this movie, written by Fritz Lang and Heinz Oskar Wuttig, was based on the Esperanto novel "Mr. Tot Buys A Thousand Eyes" by the Polish author Jan Fethke. It brought the Mabuse character from his previous pre-war appearances into contemporary times (the 1960s) and