Attention: Please take a moment to consider our terms and conditions before posting.

Favourite Carry On Film.

Wheresmeticket
Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
in Not Sports Related
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.
«1

Comments

  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,961
    Carry on screaming.

    "Do you mind if I smoke?"

    Utterly stupid.
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,827
    Carry on abroad and camping are mine.

    Carry on abroad the best.
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    IdleHans said:

    Carry on screaming.

    "Do you mind if I smoke?"

    Utterly stupid.

    ..and wonderful. Giggling now thinking of it.
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    RodneyCharltonTrotta said:

    Carry on abroad and camping are mine.

    Carry on abroad the best.

    The story behind the making of Carry on camping is hysterical.
  • Bigbadbozman
    Bigbadbozman Posts: 1,775
    Me & a mate watched carry on camping a couple of months ago, much funnier now than when I when I first watched them, Kenneth Williams gives a legendary performance in it
  • uie2
    uie2 Posts: 4,596
    Mine is Carry on at your Convenience, which was one that failed at the box office apparently because of the strikes and unions at the time! But I love it
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,733
    Screaming is the best by far . Still stands the Test of time while most of the others look terribly dated.
  • JohnnyH2
    JohnnyH2 Posts: 5,342
    Abroad
    Convenience
    Behind
  • Charltonparklane
    Charltonparklane Posts: 5,786
    Why do all actors look so old and pervy in the 60s and 70s though?

    Sure that some of them are younger than me now but looked 20 years older then.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,594
    edited October 2017
    uie2 said:

    Mine is Carry on at your Convenience, which was one that failed at the box office apparently because of the strikes and unions at the time! But I love it

    Mine too, although love all of them. Up the Kyber & Camping a close 2nd & 3rd.

    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.
  • Sponsored links:



  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,623
    Wheresmeticket? said:

    IdleHans said:

    Carry on screaming.

    "Do you mind if I smoke?"

    Utterly stupid.

    ..and wonderful. Giggling now thinking of it.
    Also.....
    "I think we are at loggerheads"
    "No, this is "by the way", "loggerheads" is down the road"
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,623
    Wheresmeticket? said:

    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.

    Kenneth Williams - "I'm a weak man"
    Hattie Jacques - "once a week is good enough for any man"
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,737
    Carry on whatever one is the shortest.

    Absolute bobbins the lot of ‘em.
  • Worthingred
    Worthingred Posts: 34
    Camping is the best "My usual charge is ...a pound!"
    Convenience "Everybody out"
    Screaming "Frying tonight"

    Well, they make me laugh anyway. Harmless postcard humour, eminently British.
  • Cordoban Addick
    Cordoban Addick Posts: 5,448
    Screaming - Fenella Fielding!
    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.
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,333
    They all seem the same to me. I really can't remember.
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,750
    Carry On Up The Jungle
    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
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,842
    Carry on up the Khyber and Carry on Cleo for me

    I do like Carry on at your convenience as well, as for a Carry on film it's surprisingly satirical
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Up The Khyber, there is no contest. The only Carry On to be nominated for both a BAFTA and Academy Award.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,781
    Cordoban Addick said:

    Screaming - Fenella Fielding!
    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.

    Don’t lose your head and Follow that camel weren’t Carry On films when they first came out if I remember correctly, they had the Carry On it added to the name many years later.
  • Sponsored links:



  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,781
    Screaming, Kyber, Cleo.
  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,295
    I have the box set and have watched every Carry On Film over the past couple of years.

    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
  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,836
    Carry on Nurse.

    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.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    edited October 2017
    It’s not out yet, but carry on running Charlton Athletic

    Roly - played by Sid James
    Chris Parkes - Charles Hawtry
    Katrien - Babara Windsor
    Sue Parkes - Bernie Eccleston (guest appearance)
    Karl Robinson - Terry Scott
  • HantsAddick
    HantsAddick Posts: 2,423
    Cowboy for me. I did have quite a schoolgirl crush on Jim Dale.
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,017
    'And swing...and fling'...

    As a 9/10 year old, I must have worn out the pause button on the VHS trying to gaup at Bab's knockers!
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,594
    JohnBoyUK said:

    'And swing...and fling'...

    As a 19/20 year old, I must have worn out the pause button on the VHS trying to gaup at Bab's knockers!

  • Nug
    Nug Posts: 4,623
    Agree with others regarding, Camping, Kyber, Convenience and Cleo but will throw in Carry on Behind. Schoolboy crush on Carol Hawkins.
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,283
    JohnBoyUK said:

    'And swing...and fling'...

    As a 9/10 year old, I must have worn out the pause button on the VHS trying to gaup at Bab's knockers!

    Ha, ha. On holiday recently me and the missus would have a cuppa after breakfast every day whilst watching about 20 ridiculously fit, young Russian women doing a yoga session put on by the hotel, which involved exactly this.

    Despite my prays it never happened...
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,842
    Bournemouth Addick said:

    JohnBoyUK said:

    'And swing...and fling'...

    As a 9/10 year old, I must have worn out the pause button on the VHS trying to gaup at Bab's knockers!

    Ha, ha. On holiday recently me and the missus would have a cuppa after breakfast every day whilst watching about 20 ridiculously fit, young Russian women doing a yoga session put on by the hotel, which involved exactly this.

    Despite my prays it never happened...
    The only prayer I would make in that situation would be for my missus to allow me to face in that direction.

Categories

“Marketplace”