I hated carry on films until, around 40, I suddenly got it. Or did I lose it?
What's your favourite Carry On movie? Why?
Or do you hate them, and why?
I think
Carry On Doctor
Carry on Screaming
Carry on Cowboy
are my favourites. Kenneth Williams is in all of them and the knowledge that he was frustrated straight (sic) actor just makes him funnier. Also the humour was so juvenile, puerile and silly it is quite innocent.
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"Do you mind if I smoke?"
Utterly stupid.
Carry on abroad the best.
Convenience
Behind
Sure that some of them are younger than me now but looked 20 years older then.
When we lived in North London my wife taught at a school in Hampstead and taught a lot of actors kids. One grandparent was Diana Copeland and when they had a fund raising auction, she donated a signed Sid James photo from Bless this house. I wanted it so badly I ended up bidding against myself for it. She attended the evening and signed it herself when I won it and we had a good chat about the carry ons and she said how much fun she had filming them.
"I think we are at loggerheads"
"No, this is "by the way", "loggerheads" is down the road"
Hattie Jacques - "once a week is good enough for any man"
Absolute bobbins the lot of ‘em.
Convenience "Everybody out"
Screaming "Frying tonight"
Well, they make me laugh anyway. Harmless postcard humour, eminently British.
Khyber - Sir Sydney Rough-Diamond. That's the first time I have ridden by cow, bullocks reverend, no its absolutely true.
Follow that Camel - With Phil Silvers as Sergeant Knocker.
Guilty pleasures one and all.
Carry On Doctor
are two of my favourites.
Has there ever been another group of actors who have made so may films together?
The jokes are so obvious but so funny. here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CppadFdNpAI
I do like Carry on at your convenience as well, as for a Carry on film it's surprisingly satirical
As Peter Butterworth is my favourite Carry On actor, my first two faves are where he's at his best
1. Abroad
2. Camping
3. Up The Khyber
4. Screaming
5. Doctor
Still get a pang of disappointment when I go into a hospital and the nurses aren’t busty little sexpots in a proper 60s nurse uniform.
Roly - played by Sid James
Chris Parkes - Charles Hawtry
Katrien - Babara Windsor
Sue Parkes - Bernie Eccleston (guest appearance)
Karl Robinson - Terry Scott
As a 9/10 year old, I must have worn out the pause button on the VHS trying to gaup at Bab's knockers!
Despite my prays it never happened...