Peter Sellers and Terry-Thomas star in the same film and still it’s not very good! At least this lesser Boulting comedy of...
Nicked off an old Twilight Zone episode which in turn was nicked off old twisty chestnut An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge...
Tip-top Nivenfest with our David as a war hero landed in court for falling behind with his expenses and turning to crime....
Phase one of the doomed attempt by Rank to market the Carry Ons abroad, hence the detachable “Carry On” in the title....
HOT ZOOPS!
Sounds like a bona fide Carry On film, but this is a George ‘Our Girl Friday’ Minter production, under the aegis of...
That telltale third word shows scenario inspiration was flagging, and sure enough there’s not much to distinguish this last of the hospital...
Bad things in this: well, yes, the whole populist union-bashing rigmarole. (Historians argue this stymied the film at the box office, which...
Talbot Rothwell packs it in to make way for Benny Hill writer Dave Freeman, who admittedly makes a pig’s ear of reheating...
Let's not pussyfoot about: the best of the Carry Ons.
We hardly need to say anything about this one, really, do we? All that fishing line/green paint anecdotal business is part of...
“Evening, cock!” No surprise to see this touted as The Best of the Bunch, usually by the same people who bestowed that...
A lesser ‘On, we feel, unless the prospect of Leslie Phillips’ bare arse excites you. The supporting cast are OK though, including...
This western-set mid-period may have Kenneth Williams’ favourite of the series, but it’s a pretty tame affair, with only Charles Hawtrey as...
The always likeable (and first ever in colour) nautical romp with Sid James captaining his last cruise with no Aberdeen Angus and...
A lesser-shown ‘On, with extra-curricular turns from Patsy Rowlands, Bill Maynard, Sam Kelly and Nosher Powell. Fans will be pleased to know...
‘Too much Jim Dale’ is the most searing criticism we can make of this first-of-the-medical-ones-in-colour but in mitigation it does have bags...
Utter crap, lacking both the charm (we use the term relatively) of the Confessions films it was intended to rival, and the...
Nearly the last, and almost certainly the least of the ‘Ons (…Columbus, needless to say, doesn’t count at all). Kenneth Connor (Captain...
It’s the one with the beauty show as Sid James cajoles the Frinton-on-Sea council into staging their own event to boost tourism in...
Is it just us, or is Sid ‘n’ Babs’ flirting one of the more tiresome aspects of the mid-period ‘Ons? And this...
More and more, we find ourselves preferring the earlier ‘Ons, before the Team As We Know Them became consolidated, and this entry...
The working title of the hopefully long-aborted Carry On revival film with Brian Conley of course, but this exists as a short...
Straight off the bat one is inclined to recall this as being not amongst the best in show as Carry On’s go...
Another hospitalised ‘On, another chance to see the Jacques/Williams/Hawtrey medical triumvirate. To distinguish from the …Doctors and …Nurse, this is the one...
“It’s matron’s round!” “Mine’s a pint!” Following on from ‘Sergeant, this first of the hospitalised ‘Ons is top stuff, with Hattie’s first...
For some reason, loads of light-hearted oriental action comedy fare seems to get marketed over here with the C-O prefix – Carry...
The terrific Stanley ‘Catherine of Arabold’ Unwin plays a landlord in this odd, bitty ‘On prompting us to start wishing for a...
“Frying tonight!” Often cited as the best of the lot, but while it’s certainly up there, there’s the odd early entry we...
The first ever instalment, of course, which means that a) it’s all in black and white, b) it’s all about doing national...
Oh, yes indeed. Directed and written by Surname of the Century competition winner Bruce Bairnsfather, who fought in both World Wars (witnessing...
The Carry On Federation, or whatever they call themselves this week, rate this as one of the better of the black-and-whiters, though...
Still finding its feet, this is the third ‘On, and pretty slight it is too, resorting to Joan Sims bending over whenever...
Eternally sloshing about the bum-end of the pantheon, Frankie Howerd reprises his …Doctor role as guest ‘Mad! They’re all mad!’ fish-out-of-water stooge...
“Mad! They’re all stark staring mad!” “Why have I been interrupted mid-tiffin?” “Rank stupidity!” “Fakir! Off!” Somewhere in the top five ‘Ons,...
Yep, it’s the iffy ‘hmm, let’s try and sell this series to the Yanks’ edition. Phil Silvers is as wasted as any...
Joining Bruce Beresford in Australia’s emergent wave of home-grown directing talent was Peter Weir, who made this immensely enjoyable low-budget sci-fi romp...
Virginia McKenna does her bit fighting those naughty Nazis by joining up with the SOE when her husband doesn’t come home. With...
We can’t find any decent info about this ’70s TV movie anywhere, despite it starring Ben ‘Smith and Jones’ Murphy and Lorne...
Featuring Oliver Ginandorange and Amanda Donowheremyclotheshavegone, of course, and we’d like to remind adolescent sceptics that loads of Nicholas Roeg’s proper films...
Hoorah! An excellent Stephen King adaptation (and there are four words that don’t often meet in the park) about a series of...
‘There’s a homosexual pancreas in the closet!’ Ah yes, here comes the inevitable Oh, Shit! It’s Jacques Rivette! billing, in which the...
Now here’s fun. High quality quiz show comedy with erudite smartarse Ronald Colman getting sacked from megalomaniac Vincent Price’s soap company before...
“You Can Expect The Unexpected When They Play ‘Charade'”. Stanley Donen’s masterful thriller in which George Kennedy and James Coburn chase a...
“The British are coming!” – Colin Welland, Academy Awards, 1981. “What we’ve actually given the audience is a very powerful laxative” –...
Walter Matthau is great is straight roles. We’ll bid The taking of Pelham 123 and raise you The Laughing Policeman as proof,...
Shelagh Delaney, faced with writer’s block after the dizzying success of A Taste of Honey, writes a play about a writer suffering...
Not one of the endless Charlie Chan features from the ’30s starring Warner Oland, worse luck (and there’s a clutch of former...
You have to feel sorry for men who became fathers of large families after 1950. They may well have fallen for the...
This film dates from 1949, yet ITV once showed it before midnight. Ha! Take that, dumbing down lobby! Not that this dramatisation...
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