Phil Silvers Interview - (1967)

Phil on set for the shooting of "Follow That Camel" in Camber Sands. Phil was brought in to try to launch the Carry On series in America. The role was originally earmarked for Woody Allen.

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[weeweemonsieur]

cool! I love Phil Silvers!

[TheStanbabe]

Also in the cast of"Follow That Camel"..the role of the rich boy..who joins the Legion to forget being disgraced by the family is Jim Dale.

[BARRIEMOREBARLOW]

.....this pik-chuh

[kokamoa]

@MacJaxonManOfAction From the Kenneth Williams diaries. He loathed Silvers more long winded attempts at off camera humour, evidenced by a riddle that Silvers set him, which Williams instantly guessed.

The quote below refers to an incident where Silvers was being touched up by the director, Peter Rogers, and on reaching the groin area, Silvers said, "If you find anything there, let me know."

[westy406]

If I was Phil I would have laid him out!

[Witheredgoogie]

I doubt if Phil Silvers was brought in to launch Carry on in America? Carry on was never for America. I think he brought in because he was available doing the Europe tour like many American actors

at the time,and most of all, simply because Britain loved him.

[MacJaxonManOfAction]

Was that a quote from Williams, kokamoa?

[kokamoa]

"If he stuck to the contempoaraneous and the extempereaneous he'd be wonderful. The sudden involuntary crack...this he does wonderfully."

[25thNovember1970]

Kenneth Williams despised Silvers during the shooting of this film, and claimed in his diaries to have actually told him to "get fucked" at one point......

[simonellson]

Excellent clip

[Yefra707]

Definitely one of the best