Carry On Up the Jungle The film was among the eight most popular movies at the UK box office in 1970. Carry On Up the Jungle Carry On Up the Jungle is the nineteenth in the series of "Carry On" films to be made, released in 1970. The film marked Frankie Howerd's second and final appearance in the series. He stars alongside regular players Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Terry Scott and Bernard Bresslaw. Kenneth Williams is unusually absent. Kenneth Connor returns to the series for the first time since "Carry On Cleo" six years earlier and would now feature in almost every entry
Carry On series on screen and stage sole producer and director respectively. They mostly employed the same crew and a regular group of actors. The main cast predominantly featured Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Peter Butterworth, Hattie Jacques, Terry Scott, Bernard Bresslaw, Barbara Windsor, Jack Douglas and Jim Dale. The "Carry On"s comprise the largest number of films of any British series and, next to the "James Bond" films, are the second-longest continually-running UK film series (with a fourteen-year hiatus between 1978 and 1992). Between 1958 and 1992, there were seven writers, principally Norman Hudis (1958–62) and Talbot Rothwell (1963–74). The films