The Big Job

Most of the production team had worked on the previous year's 'Carry on Spying' (1964) where the producers had decided that would be the last Carry On film shot on black & white film. Originally, only the beginning of "The Big Job" (the original robbery was set in 1950) was planned to be in black and white and the modern scenes shot in color but when carrying out a pre-production audit of what props and cameras would be available for this film's shoot, it was noted that there was still a lot of unused cans of perfectly good 35mm monochrome film stock available. As there were no major black & white 35mm productions planned for the major UK studios in the near future and as television productions tended to use 16mm film or videotape, the production company was offered the last of the old unused monochrome film stock on the cheap. They duly obliged, which is why this film became a completely black and white production at the last minute and why it was one of the last black and white films shot at Pinewood.

In a scene where the robbers are climbing into the police station back yard, the ladder they are using does not reach the top of the wall. However, when they drop down on the other side, the top of the ladder is at least 2 feet above the wall. Similarly when George first spies the ladder against the girl's window, it reaches above the window ledge, but when the young man climbs it when the couple are eloping, it does not reach to the window.

When originally released theatrically in the UK, the BBFC made cuts to secure a 'U' rating.

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