Up The Chastity Belt - Robin Hood and his Merry Men - Frankie Howerd and Hugh Paddick

[@pinkandgreenbyjoanna]

The way Robin says “Outrageous” is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen. I intend to make it my entire personality.

[@sharonjones873]

i love it, the whole world in one word!

[@sharonjones873]

i could watch this forever and never stop laughing, pure magic, Hugh, Frankie and Rita, just wonderful, and so very very funny!

[@lauramaguire5152]

Frankie Howard and Hugh Paddick, a match made in heaven . I love this film for all its corny jokes, camp acting and hilarious story line. Love the other films in the series too♥️

[@annoldham3018]

And who, pray, is this fragile wood nymph.😂😂😂

[@ajlomas7185]

Out of the 3 movies from the "UP" series, this is by far my favourite. The Robin Hood and his band of men scenes being the best scenes, this was hilarious back when I saw it as a kid and it's still just as funny. Being a fan of the great Hugh Paddick, I was only ever used to listening to his voice on the radio, so to see him actually acting was such a treat, and even now he brings a big smile to my face. I always felt that this brilliant actor was never on tv enough, I would have loved to have seen him in other films. I do remember seeing him briefly in an episode of Up Pompei and later in an episode of BlackAdder along with Kenneth Connor. Sadly all these comedy greats have left us, but their work will always speak for it's self and prove what a talent they all were. I'll take these "old timers" any day over the "so-called" comedy talents we are sadly lumbered with today.

[@ScottyBugler2005]

Don’t mention the name of the Scottish play....... one should never mention the name of the Scottish play (Blackadder) By the Scottish play, I presume you mean McBeth 😂

[@oldskoolfool141]

My go-to fall asleep movie, the familiar voices and gentle flutey 70s music drifts me off in no time

[@michaeljordan-ws8bw]

The funniest Robin Hood I've ever seen. Loved this movie

[@delboyonline]

It's so funny! 👍

[@meirwise1107]

The Master at work. RIP Francis. Unforgettable. Unequalled.

[@angelacooper2661]

Woe, Woe and thrice Woe!

[@jackpayne5101]

I love the 'Outrageous!' 😅

[@thehellyousay]

"so, ducky, what do you think of our camp?" "i think that's word for it."

[@delboyonline]

Outrageous! 😂

[@jeffreybickerton4422]

Robin's face when Maid Marion starts swearing is priceless....the one and only Hugh Paddick!

[@delboyonline]

One of my favourite films, I can watch it time and again, and I still thoroughly enjoy it.

[@jeffreybickerton4422]

@@delboyonline Yep!

[@oldskool9046]

"Well that explains a lot of things....you can't really blame him can you....well I mean could you.....with her?" absolute class delivery from Frankie 🤣😂

[@nathelondon3719]

Frankie Howerd stealing every scene. He fills the screen like no one else.

[@jacklondoner4579]

"To think we could have got Julie Andrews for the same money." Ha ha ha.

[@markwilliams546]

Chuck in Kenneth Williams and you'd have Julian and Sandy from Round the Horne! LOL

[@captainswing4487]

Hugh Paddick...funny star. Great as Julian with Sandy.

[@kevinlarkin3872]

The Robin Hood sequences are, in my opinion, the funniest thing ever captured on film. Hugh Paddick as Robin and Rita Webb as Marian are hysterical and perfectly cast, and I wish there'd been a spin-off film or TV series continuing the adventures of them and the Merry Men.

[@delboyonline]

One of the funniest films ever made and certainly a favourite of mine.

[@kevinlarkin3872]

@@delboyonline Definitely! It's too easily dismissed, but has more laughs and better performances all round than many better-regarded comedies.

[@ianpeddle6818]

Love how Frankie speaks to camera!!!

[@npc3po301]

"Now.. first you put your two knees close up tight, you swing 'em to the left then you swing 'em to the right, repeat this four times and ..oooOOOOooo.."

[@vanillaorchid]

A woefully under rated film. Hilarious.

[@delboyonline]

a brilliant film, one of my favourites 👍

[@blackpoolbarmpot]

You could never get away with this nowadays 🤣

[@innfield8836]

No, more's the pity ... and we are poorer for it

[@thehellyousay]

ironically, it's because so many words were taboo then that we got this sort of brilliant humour.

[@GrilloTheFlightless]

The first soldier that got shot in the back is John Gorman who, along with Roger McGough and Paul McCartney’s brother Mike, was a member of comedy music group The Scaffold. He was also a regular on Tiswas in the late 70s.

[@anton1990]

3:18 Long John Baldry!!

[@kcuhc84]

Frankie plays the straight man.

[@tonycavanagh1929]

lol

[@angelacooper2661]

I was just a mere infant in the pram at the time. Encountered Francis Howerd years later. Titter ye not and Naughty!

[@pingupangu1]

The epitome of a camp reaction: 5:50

[@ianpeddle6818]

Absolutely brilliant and Frankie as camp as tits himself. Fabulous stuff!!!!

[@theplayhouse7244]

RIP Friar Tuck (Alan Rebbeck)

[@peterfranks6243]

Then Maid Marian shows up ...hilarious

[@metalbearuk]

I love this film, actually prefer it to 'Up Pompeii'.

[@gurbai9730]

The most campest reaction ever to the shagnasty comment

[@SuperTed19021]

Maid Marian is Rita Webb, one of the loud-mouthed aunts in "Steptoe and Son".

[@gurbai9730]

Also great in Till Death Do Us Part

[@captainswing4487]

Shows her bloomers at the funeral...superb.

[@professornuke7562]

I remember her telling Benny Hill "Beauty is only skin deep", and him replying "but in your case the ugly goes to the bone!"

[@iainclark5964]

Call that bleeding swearing you wait till we get to the cemetery!

[@johnpaterson6741]

She did a stellar turn as Fanny's Mum in confessions of a pop performer, and had the best line in the film!

[@kernowarty]

That arrow in the back was horizontally in the back of that soldier. It would have to have been fired from the wall behind where there was nobody present

[@thehellyousay]

shush, you'll ruin the illusion ...

[@garethoneill5676]

You'll be telling us that he was standing there with it sticking out the back of him the whole time next.

[@wordscapes5690]

The only exposure queer folk got were depictions like these. It's the only depiction that they would permit. And we all loved it so much. It was better than nothing.

[@braddarmphitt7067]

shagnasty 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@gladyspanther]

Beastars in UK, or maybe zootopia in 1970ts🏹💰🦊🦊🦁🐰🐺🐔🐓

[@davidmortara]

Is that a young Billy Connolly in there?

[@delboyonline]

No he didn't appear in this film but I'm now wondering who you mean 🤔

[@Smellthecoffee100]

Is this one for the gays?

[@ianpeddle6818]

You don’t say

[@thehellyousay]

the gays?

[@RevGary]

My Dad took me to see this when I was 6 or 7 though I did not have a clue what a chastity belt was or understand the homosexual perversion innuendo or double entendre or 20. Loved Frankie Howard a national treasure however this camp crud has escalates to the immorality and societal decline/debauchery we have nowadays in the West. 🤮

[@richardbrown6163]

It's called humour. Get over yourself and your self righteousness

[@RevGary]

@@richardbrown6163 dry your eyes wee Dickieboi you grossly overestimate the value of your opinion son. Away and play with the traffic brown boxer 🤮

[@thehellyousay]

stuffy in your closet, ain't it?

[@garethoneill5676]

Yep, you're a denizen of Narnia.