Don't Lose Your Head Don't Lose Your Head Don't Lose Your Head is the thirteenth in the series of "Carry On" films to be made. It features regular team members Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey and Joan Sims. French actress Dany Robin makes her only Carry on appearance in Don't Lose Your Head. It was released in March 1967. Set in France and England in 1789 during the French Revolution, it is a parody of Baroness Orczy's "The Scarlet Pimpernel". The first "Carry On" to be produced by the Rank Organisation, "Don't Lose Your Head" was not conceived as a part
Carry On (franchise) original actors Barbara Windsor, Jack Douglas, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Connor and Joan Sims, with Sims filling in the role of matron that was previously held by Hattie Jacques. The end of the film was going to be a tribute to Jacques, with Sims turning around a photograph of the actress and asking "Well, did I do alright?" (the script is included in the book "The Lost Carry Ons"). Production was scheduled to begin in June 1988, but the deaths of Williams and Hawtrey (in April and October 1988 respectively), combined with a budget of £1.5 million which was