The title of 1969's Carry On Again Doctor says it all; almost the same cast playing similar characters to their previous year's outing in Carry On Doctor. This one rejoices in the alternative title "Bowels are Ringing". But the enduring popularity of these films owes almost everything to their basic formula and if it occasionally seems a bit cobbled together, all the old favourites ...
Manufacturer: Cinema ClubStarring: Kenneth Williams, Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, Jim Dale, Joan SimsDirected By: Gerald Thomas
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Harry H. Corbett, Charles Hawtrey, Fenella FieldingDirected By: Gerald Thomas
Carry On Jack was the 1963 offering from a team which had, by then, become a repertory company with special guests dropping in for a dose of innuendo. "What's all this jigging in the rigging?" demands Kenneth Williams, this time playing a ship's captain, and the scene is set for 90 minutes of ribaldry involving cross-dressing, press-ganging and plank walking. The plot scarcely matters. It's ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Bernard Cribbins, Juliet Mills, Donald HoustonDirected By: Gerald Thomas
There are three periods to Carry On. Early on, they were typical British light comedy capers, hardly risqué. By the 1970s, the loveable double-entendres had been replaced by an almost nasty sleaziness, culminating in 1977's Carry On Emanuelle. 1969's Carry On Camping, thankfully, belongs to the Golden Years. Pretty much everybody is present and correct, if not politically. Sid ...
Manufacturer: ITV DVDStarring: Kenneth Williams, Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Terry ScottDirected By: Gerald Thomas
Bedpan humour rules in Carry On Doctor, the vintage 1968 offering from the familiar gang, assisted by guest star Frankie Howerd as bogus faith healer Francis Bigger. Hospitals, of course, always provided the Carry On producers with plenty of material. Today, these comedies induce a twinge of serious nostalgia for the great days of the National Health Service when Matron (Hattie ...
Manufacturer: Cinema ClubStarring: Frankie Howerd, Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams, Jim DaleDirected By: Gerald Thomas
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton, Charles HawtreyDirected By: Gerald Thomas
The first of the Carry On movies, 1958's Sergeant is rather different from its successors, much more a film of its time (the latter days of National Service) and rather less a bawdy picture postcard. Sergeant Grimshaw (William Hartnell long before Doctor Who) is about to retire and hopes that he can get his last platoon into shape as Champion Platoon of its intake. ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, William Hartnell, Shirley Eaton, Eric BarkerDirected By: Gerald Thomas
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Kenneth Williams, Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Joan SimsDirected By: Gerald Thomas
Filmed in 1968 and set in British India in 1895, Carry On Up the Khyber is one of the team's most memorable efforts. Sid James plays Sid James as ever, though nominally his role is that of Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond, the unflappable British Governor who must deal with the snakelike, scheming Khasi of Khalabar, played by Kenneth Williams. A crisis occurs when the mystique of the "devils in ...
Manufacturer: RankStarring: Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Roy Castle, Joan SimsDirected By: Gerald Thomas
Carry On Up the Jungle has worn less well than some of the others in the series, simply because the African exploration genre it parodies--with its cannibals, great white hunters and lost Amazon tribes--is so entirely out of fashion. Still, Frankie Howerd made so comparatively few films that one which has him as an ornithologist searching for rare birds in the company of Joan Sims and Sid ...
Manufacturer: Cinema ClubStarring: Frankie Howerd, Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Terry ScottDirected By: Gerald Thomas
