Carry On Columbus (1992) on Netflix

Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Carry On Columbus (1992)

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• A rap song written and produced by ex-Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren with Lee Gorman was recorded by Forbidden Planet, with vocals by Jayne Collins and Debbie Holmes, and plays over the film's end credits.
• Frankie Howerd was signed up to play the King of Spain but died in April 1992, shortly before production started; Leslie Phillips played the role instead.
• Robbie Coltrane declined the offer to play Christopher Columbus; Jim Dale took the title role to bring 'star power', out of affection and loyalty to the Carry On series and its producer and director.
• Comedy writer Dave Freeman, who had written Carry On Behind, was given three weeks to write the screenplay so that the film could be released in summer 1992. He later said he was "pushed and shoved in all direction by the producer and director" and could have done a better job with more time.
• Harry Enfield, a Carry On fan, declined the offer to play Columbus's brother because he thought it odd that so many of the original cast were not involved.
• Barbara Windsor, who had refused to appear in the explicit Carry On Emmannuelle, turned down a role and called the script a "bad Confessions film, crude and awful", not the Carry On style of McGill saucy postcards.
• In a 2004 poll of British film actors, technicians, writers and directors, Carry On Columbus was voted the worst British film ever made.