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    Captain Keene (Roy Castle)  

Captain Keene

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Portrayed by Roy Castle

CPT Keene is a male character from Carry On Up the Khyber. He is the captain of the British Army — the Third Foot & Mouth regiment — and was a respected leader to all, mostly working close with S.MJR MacNutt and Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond. When one of his men disobey the rules and has his underwear stolen by an Indian burpa, Keene immediately jumps into action and organises tactics and suggestions in a way to get the underwear back and save Queen Victoria's honor as well as keeping the strong relationship between the British and the southern Asians by the Khyber Pass. Even if the mission is sheer suicide.

  • A Father to His Men: He treats his army sternly, but well. Contrasts with MacNutt's Drill Sergeant Nasty.
  • Academic Athlete: When the Ruff-Diamonds are watching polo, MAJ Shorthouse is sitting next to them, but not Keene, implying that he's playing polo with the team. This adds to his quick-thinking and his power.
  • The Captain
  • Chest of Medals
  • Deadpan Snarker: Has occasional moments. Mostly during the luring of Brother Belcher with an attractive women, even though it was mostly more snarky than deadpan.
  • Fourth-Date Marriage: Keene meets Princess Jelhi at least three or four times and then reveal that they're getting married at Sir Sidney's dinner party.
  • Good-Looking Privates: Keene is an attractive captain in army uniform. Possibly one of the reasons why Princess Jelhi falls for him.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: He willingly volunteers to stay behind while his volunteers and imprisoned British civilians rush to safety, but is talked out of it by S.MJR MacNutt.
  • Honor Before Reason: Keene follows this policy well — reminding Widdle over the traditions of the British Army, but then it turns out he's just a massive hypocrite, because he's wearing underwear just like Widdle.
  • Man in a Kilt
  • Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow: Mighty whitey to Princess Jelhi's mellow yellow, however, Princess Jelhi isn't helpless as most of the Asian women of this trope.
  • Mr. Fanservice: Keene is easily supposed to be the most attractive male in the cast, mostly because he looked younger than the others which made him the obvious eye candy. He becomes the Love Interest to Princess Jelhi of Khalabar (portrayed by the attractive young Angela Douglas).
  • Only Sane Man: When dealing with the likes of the cowardly James Widdle, the short-tempered closeted-pervert MacNutt, the blithering Belcher, and the hard-to-please Lady Joan, he and his lover Jheli are quite easily the only people with a head on their shoulders.
  • Sex for Services: It is implied that he mostly chooses to stay in the Khasi's harem so he can get information about the stolen photograph out of them, but this is overshadowed by the others' attitudes, so it's debatable whether he secretly shares this attitude too.
  • Skewed Priorities: In the diner scene during the climax, he finally decides to join his army, but Sir Sidney talks him out of it.
    CPT Keene: I wonder if I should go outside and see if everything's all right.
    Sir Sidney: But you haven't had your pudding yet, Captain!
    Lady Joan: Oh, and it's strawberry mousse!
    CPT Keene: [excitedly returning to his seat] Oh... well, in that case...
  • Stiff Upper Lip: He relies on this policy a lot. When caught by Bungit Din's men, he tells his party not to panic and to keep a stiff-upper-lip.
  • Those Two Guys: He is constantly in close work with S.MJR MacNutt.

    Sally (Juliet Mills)  

Sally

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Portrayed by Juliet Mills

Sally is a female character from Carry On Jack. She works in an inn in a busy sailing port that is very popular with many locals and a Royal Navy press gang, which is where she meets the really shy Albert Poop-Decker. She knocks him unconscious, steals his navy uniform and impersonates him for most of the Venus ship, in a hope to meet up with an old childhood crush who disappeared on a naval ship, despite Albert's constant claims of being the real midshipman.

  • Action Girl: In a way, even though she's disguised as a midshipman that doesn't do much of the manual labour — and she doesn't do much fighting, but it's implied that she does do most of the work once she and the three men regain control over the Venus (CPT Fearless is injured with a splinter in his foot, Walter mostly runs around confused and Albert regains his identity as the true Albert Poop-Decker.
  • Different for Girls: Albert tries to get Sally to get out of her disguise by claiming that he has a mole on his penis, but Sally manages to dismiss this claim and keep her disguise by claiming that she had no mole there. Captain Fearless is stupid enough to not investigate further into the accusation.
  • Disguised in Drag: Most of the movie as Albert Poop-Decker.
  • Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
  • Nice Girl: Sally is mostly this, despite practically committing fraud, but you can clearly see how ashamed she looks whenever Albert is punished for claiming that she is an impostor. She apologises to him for the abuse when she is found out a liar.
  • Precocious Crush: Her attraction to the missing-in-action Roger was because he was the only older person (therefore mature guy) that she knew when she was thirteen.
  • Recursive Crossdressing: When Fearless' party escapes the naval ship and arrive in where they think is France, Sally as Albert dresses up in the only female disguise that they can find in the pile. Fearless points out that "Albert's" "pecks" can fill out the dress perfectly but doesn't put two and two together.
  • Sex for Services: Sally flirts with Albert in the inn to excite him and knocks him out when he least expects it to steal the clothes.
  • Single-Target Sexuality: To the missing-in-action Roger. When the naval ship is taken over by bloodthirsty pirates, she finds out that he is the captain and immediately goes off him, and starts becoming attracted to the quiet and polite Albert.
  • Vocal Dissonance: She doesn't attempt a deep male-sounding voice at any point in her disguise and somehow, all the men around her don't seem to notice this.

    Sergeant Ernie Nocker (Phil Silvers)  

Sergeant Ernie Nocker

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Portrayed by Phil Silvers

Sergeant Ernie Nocker was a character from Carry On... Follow That Camel!. He was an American sergeant in the French Foreign Legion that is the favourite of the no-nonsense Burger, who sends him to patrol around the Middle Eastern towns after hours. He uses this opportunity to have one night-stands with women in the town but manages to cover his tracks with tall tales that are too believable to be false and is rewarded for his "bravery" with a medal.

When overhearing Simpson and Bo talking about meeting him in ZigZig's cafe, Nocker tries to impress them to keep them quiet, and the three of them become fast friends — although "friends" is a little too far. With the threatening presence of Abulbul in the air, Nocker needs to live up to his sergeant status, no matter the cost.

  • America Saves the Day: In a way, this trope is zig-zagged. Nocker's lies of bravery in ambushes whilst out on "patrol", and managing to fight them off unarmed, play him up as this; the audience would probably be convinced that he saves everyone at the end of the movie from whatever peril there is to come — he doesn't though. Captain le Pice does.
  • A Bloody Mess: The audience first sees Nocker asleep in ZigZig's bed after having a on night-stand with her. When he returns to the army base, he ties a bandage with a speck of jam on it to his forehead and pretends to limp through the front gates.
  • Chest of Medals: He has at least twelve on his chest from Burger.
  • Crying Wolf: Nocker's tall tales of dangerous adventures bite him on the backside when Burger finds out the truth. When he tells them of being kidnapped by an Arabian monarch, he is jailed and tortured for a week.
  • Dirty Old Man: Nocker is obviously depraved of sex (unsurprising, considering that he is in an all-men army) and does everything he can to be sexually satisfied. When he is trapped in Abulbul's harem tent with Bo and Simpson, he doesn't consider trying to escape under the sheikh's nose.
  • Distracted by the Sexy: How CorkTip successfully has him kidnapped.
  • Drill Sergeant Nasty: After watching the pacing of Simpson and Bo, he becomes this towards them. When he overhears them talking about information that could rat him out as a liar, he waits on them hand and foot to keep them quiet.
  • Karma Houdini: Even though he is found out to be a liar, he doesn't get repercussions for conning the army. Surely, in real life, he would've probably been either dismissed, or deported back to the US, or probably executed.
  • LadyKiller
  • The Leader: Now he has to live up to that title, considering how much he's been conning the commandant.
  • Mighty Whitey
  • Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow: Nocker to his (recent) one-night stand ZigZig. That is until he meets CorkTip.
  • Mistaken for Badass: Nocker himself invokes this trope. He uses his power to set out into the desert to get into the pants of several native women, getting more medals in the process. Naturally, when trouble's on the way, he doesn't seem to be able to handle it (it's not shown on screen, however, but it's heavily implied). The biggest example is when he and Bo are kidnapped by Abulbul, who threatens them with execution, and Bo tells the sheikh off for being rude — all while Nocker cringes in fear and hangs his head like a sorrowful child.
  • Press-Ganged: By CorkTip's hire assassins.
  • Teacher's Pet: He is the favourite of Commandant Burger and is trusted at all times, which gives him enough leeway to go and break curfew and break several patrolling rules.

     Wilfred Haines (Lance Percival)  

Wilfred Haines

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Portrayed by Lance Percival

Wilfred Haines was a character from Carry On Cruising. He was a chef that worked on the SS Happy Wanderer that hadn't been experienced in working on a ship, soon realising that he was prone to seasickness whenever he didn't see the ocean through the windows. This new lifestyle didn't add any help to his clumsiness and his slight absent-mindedness whenever he tried to prepare dishes.

Haines was among the few that were replacements at the last minute for CPT Crowther's cruise staff. He spends the whole movie trying to impress Crowther so that they could be comfortable with each other but the antics and misunderstandings of everyone else and himself usually end badly — often with Crowther getting hurt.

  • Afraid of Needles: Which is why he's injected in the backside.
  • Lethal Chef: It might be because he's trying so hard to impress Crowther, but Haines tries to make a dish that blows up in his face. He gets better, though.
  • Replacement Goldfish: A replacement at the last minute with most of the staff.
  • Shot in the Ass: In order to stop his seasickness, he needs to take three stages of a medicine to stop gagging on the ship.
  • "Well Done, Son" Guy: All the staff are this in order to please Crowther.

    Lieutenant Jonathan Howett (Donald Houston)  

Lieutenant Jonathan Howett

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Portrayed by Donald Houston

LIEU Howett was a character from Carry On Jack. He was the scheming lieutenant that worked on the "good ship" Venus alongside CPT Fearless and his partner Mr Angel, and was desperate to overthrow Fearless and become the man in charge.


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