A Pat of Appreciation

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This is from Carry on Again Doctor from 1969, the poorest of the medical films they did, but does still include two bum patting scenes. Here Jim Dale's Dr Nookey (what else?) is sent to a tropical island after disgracing himself at a hospital party, where he meets local quack Sid James and his numerous native wives (who double up as nurses). Sid gets to grips with one of his nurses in the 1st bum patting scene as he comes out of his bedroom (the nurse I believe may be an actress called Heather Emmanuel). The 2nd bum slapping scene comes after Jim Dale's character has flown back to Blighty with a secret slimming formula concocted by Sid, who sees Dale's success in the papers and decides to fly over there. There he sees Hattie Jacques, bent over a desk in uniform, and cannot resist a good hearty slap of her backside. He's a brave lad, is our Sid.

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Another one of Sid James, this time from Bless This House, the TV sitcom that ran from 1971 to 1976 until Sid's untimely death. He must of had a fun time filming, because he seems to of patted more women's bums than any other actor I know, and in this episode from the 3rd series (Episode called "Will the Real Sid Abbott Please Stand Up?") he plays the title character and that of a doppleganger who happens to be a womanizer. Indeed, in this video he IS the doppleganger who meets Sid's secretary (played by Charlotte Howard), who believes it is her work colleague and hooks up with him. I kept that scene in here, as she looks good in that dress. By the time of the 2nd scene in the video, she has been rebuffed by the real Sid Abbott, only to encounter the doppleganger in the pub, who playfully pats her bum a number of times to get her attention. Don't worry if you haven't kept track of what's going on, just watch the video clip and enjoy.

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Now I know I posted this before, but I was able to get a better copy off the TV yesterday. This scene shows Sean Connery's Bond on a train with blonde bombshell Daniella Bianchi, a model turned actress who was dubbed for the film, posing as an English couple while hiding away from spies. When Bianchi shows reluctance to leave the carriage, Connery tells her "We are supposed to be a respectable English couple..." before saying "now just do as I say" and giving her an authoritative slap on the bum. Bianchi's reply, through gritted teeth, is "But there are some English customs that are going to be changed..." I think Bond picked the wrong woman to get friendly with here!

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The 2nd film I'm posting tonight is also one I uploaded previously, but like the previous video I have been able to find a better copy from the TV this week. It's from Crooks in Cloisters (also from 1963), a British comedy crime caper that sees Ronald Fraser, Bernard Cribbins and Barbara Windsor et al as a gang of crooks who end up hiding out in a monastery to avoid the police after a robbery. Normally it's our Babs who is on the end of a friendly pinch, but here it is one of the molls whose bum gets tweeked by Fraser as he hurries them out of the room to talk business. The actress sadly is unknown, but there is at least additional footage of her short but sweet appearance in the film, which I have included here. Enjoy.

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If you want to find a film that involves a lady's bum being patted, best chance will be a Sid James film. This clip doesn't actually involve Sid, but it stars him (along with Arthur Askey) as a soap powder salesman who uses Askey's position in TV to try and promote his product on the BBC (a strict no no). In this scene, however, it shows life in a TV casting office, where an executive checks out a budding wannabe. "That's very nice, dear," he tells her. "Now leave your telephone number and call the next one in," before leading her to the door and giving her bum a number of pats to guide her out. Sadly, I don't know the name of the lovely actress on the receiving end of the patting, but the actor looks to of got his money's worth doing this!

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This clip is one I came across by chance on Youtube. It features Dad's Army star James Beck (Pt Walker) and the aptly named Jo Rowbottom as a layabout couple living in a caravan site. Playing on Jo's surname, this clip shows the opening credits where she comes out her caravan to bend down to attend to something, only for Beck to give her bum a cheeky pat. I've also included a nice intimate interplay between the two stars in one scene.

The series was created for Beck to branch out from Dad's Army, but he tragically died just after the 2nd series in 1973, aged just 44, and a promising career was cut short. For Jo Rowbottom, she made her debut in 1962, and apart from this series her best known role was as Calpurnia in the TV series I, Cladius in 1976. Her last screen role was in 1992.

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This is from another UK TV sitcom called Hallelujah!, which ran from 1983-84 and starred Thora Hird and Patsy Rowlands as a couple of Salvation Army cadets trying to spread the word in a small northern town in Yorkshire. You wouldn't of thought this would be the likely sitcom to find bum pinching, but it has two such scenes within it's first 3 episodes! First is when the duo decide to enter a pub, only for Patsy to wonder why it's called "The Bird in Hand." It soon becomes obvious when they enter and see one of the locals pinch the barmaid's bum! "Now we know!" says Thora. The 2nd scene involves Patsy and an amnesiac (played by Brian Rawlinson), who Patsy comforts, only for him to put his hand on her bum. She removes it the first time, but when he puts it there a 2nd time and then corrects himself, she places his hand back on her bum. Now if only Thora hadn't walked in at that moment...

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I usually upload on here on a Sunday, but circumstances mean I shall be taking a break from here for a while. So here is the next clip in what seems like an endless supply from film and TV of bum patting on screen. Never did I think when I first started this that I would have so much material in hand (so to speak).

Anyway, this clip is from the film On the Fiddle (1961), starring Alfred Lynch, but being more interesting for the fact that his dim witted buddy is a pre-Bond Sean Connery. Here they turn up to help out at a canteen kitchen run by Jack Smethurst and a young Patsy Rowlands (from Hallelujah!, above) in a very early screen appearance. And it is her who ends up having her bum slapped by Smethurst, as she sits on the table applying her lipstick. Patsy would later go on to find fame in the Carry On films and TV's Bless This House in the 1970's in a varied career. She died in 2005, just 3 days after her 74th birthday.

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After 6 weeks away, here is a clip from the vintage era of Hollywood, involving no less than Joan Crawford and Clark Gable in the film Dancing Lady from 1933. In this scene Crawford is desperate to get into Clark Gable's dancing studios and will do almost anything to get picked. "So you like to dance?" says Gable. "More than anything else in the world" replies Crawford. "You wanna work with me? Then shake," says Gable (not as dubious as it sounds, although it's pre-Hayes code Hollywood). Then he sends her away with a firm slap of her backside that I just love and tells her to beat it. What's even more intriguing is that Joan actually thanks him for it and then departs, happy.

It's not the only clip I have of this film. You see, there is also a burlesque sequence at the beginning of the film that Joan is involved in before the police raid the theatre. This raid is what sees our Joan end up looking for work at Gable's dance studio. I have added the burlesque clip on the "Jean Parker in Two Alone" thread that I thought might suit all Hollywood pre-Hayes videos. You can check it out here: https://forum.oneclickchicks.com/sho...45&postcount=2

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This week's video is actually a find off the net, and is called The White Countess (2005). It stars Natasha Richardson as an exiled countess who ends up having to work in a seedy Shanghai bar to support her family. In this scene she is having to play host and dance with a sailor, who takes full opportunity to fix his hands on her bum for a good grope, while she can do little else other than take it on the chin and grin and bear it. For Natasha, she first came to fame in The Handmaid's Tale in 1990, where she appeared topless, while other nude roles include Patty Hearst (1988), The Comfort of Strangers (1991), Past Midnight (1992) and Asylum (2005). Sadly this was one of her last roles, as she died four years later in 2009, far too young at 45, after a skiing accident.