Bertram Oliphant 'Bo' West wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation, so he joins the Foreign Legion—with Simpson his manservant in tow. But the fort they get posted to is full of eccentric legionnaires, and there's trouble brewing with the locals too. Unbeknown to Bo, his lady love has followed him in disguise.
TW: Sexual violence is discussed No Silvers lining here Good God this is awful. I cannot think of a single redeeming quality to this particular Carry On movie. It's racist, it makes light of sexual assault, it's annoying, it's meandering, it looks cheap and it's a woeful way to use most of the Carry On regulars. For the uninitiated, the plot of this is basically a worse version of the Laurel and Hardy classic Beau Hunks. Jim Dale believes his love doesn't want him, so he drags Peter Butterworth with him to join the Foreign Legion. At that point comedy shenanigans are supposed to happen. I reiterate Laurel and Hardy did this better decades beforehand. The humour is crude, lazy and biggotted. The racial humour isn't a subversive commentary on the west, at best it is a serious of cheap offensive laughs at a different culture. At worst, it is an actively malicious depiction of an ethnic group that enflanes the prejudices of the largely white audience that consumed these films.
