“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 terrific Stanley ‘Catherine of Arabold’ Unwin plays a landlord in this odd, bitty ‘On prompting us to start wishing for a...
“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...
Another hospitalised ‘On, another chance to see the Jacques/Williams/Hawtrey medical triumvirate. To distinguish from the …Doctors and …Nurse, this is the one...
Straight off the bat one is inclined to recall this as being not amongst the best in show as Carry On’s go...
More and more, we find ourselves preferring the earlier ‘Ons, before the Team As We Know Them became consolidated, and this entry...
Bad things in this: well, yes, the whole populist union-bashing rigmarole. (Historians argue this stymied the film at the box office, which...
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...
Yep, it’s the iffy ‘hmm, let’s try and sell this series to the Yanks’ edition. Phil Silvers is as wasted as any...
Nearly the last, and almost certainly the least of the ‘Ons (…Columbus, needless to say, doesn’t count at all). Kenneth Connor (Captain...
Utter crap, lacking both the charm (we use the term relatively) of the Confessions films it was intended to rival, and the...
Phase one of the doomed attempt by Rank to market the Carry Ons abroad, hence the detachable “Carry On” in the title....
A lesser-shown ‘On, with extra-curricular turns from Patsy Rowlands, Bill Maynard, Sam Kelly and Nosher Powell. Fans will be pleased to know...
The always likeable (and first ever in colour) nautical romp with Sid James captaining his last cruise with no Aberdeen Angus and...
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...
A lesser ‘On, we feel, unless the prospect of Leslie Phillips’ bare arse excites you. The supporting cast are OK though, including...
We hardly need to say anything about this one, really, do we? All that fishing line/green paint anecdotal business is part of...
That telltale third word shows scenario inspiration was flagging, and sure enough there’s not much to distinguish this last of the hospital...
HOT ZOOPS!
The balance of world power hinges on the life of a single, mysterious refugee (it says here). It’s up to Charlotte Rampling...
Peter Sellers and Terry-Thomas star in the same film and still it’s not very good! At least this lesser Boulting comedy of...
No, it’s not *that* Captain Scarlet. It’s a bit ordinary this. Richard ‘Ian Symes’ Greene plays a French nobleman who comes back...
Gregory Peck here as Forrester’s schoolboy-amusingly-named naval hero coping manfully with the twin encumbrances of Napoleon’s fleet on his back and Richard...
Top flight ’60s hairspray-based spying mish-mash, with Doris Day (in a variety of ‘swinging’ outfits and outsize round sunglasses – check) involved...
Magisterial wartime Archers semi-propagandist retelling of Chaucer – watch out for *that* falcon/spitfire shot that Kubrick purloined, and a young Charles Hawtrey,...
Robert Redford partakes of some fear and loathing on the ’72 campaign trail in this great pseudo-doc satire, with backup from Peter...
Worth watching just to see Sid James play a Canadian. We shall now line up the other reasons to watch this film:...
Miraculously shoddy Penthouse production scripted by a highly embarrassed Gore Vidal and directed by pretentious schlockmeister and top polishing product Tinto Brass....
Doris Day is a-comin’ on over the hill once again as the eponymous title character in this tale of her running her...
Eh? No colons? Why, it’s the original TVM! With Hotlips Swit instead of Gless. But no Detective LaGuardia, sadly, and we don’t...
Once taboo-breaking, now just shrill French “don’t tell the mother-in-law you’re gay, dad” farce whose reputation rocketed a few years back when...
More crime capers, but this is serious blaxploitation fare, with a hamburger seller, a clotheshop owner, the obligatory loaded businessman and a...
"I'VE NEVER SEEN SUCH BIG BALLS! AND I'M FROM CHICAGO!" I'M SORRY, WHAT?
Urk!
It may be a coupe, but it’s spacious where it counts!
Shit on your mother!
Eligible Yank totty Liz Taylor falls for dashing soldier Robert ‘The Man with the perfect Profile’ Taylor (no relation, in fact we’re...
Violence, budgetary strain and a set that looks like a ’70s shopping centre (actually the Milton Keynesian Century City studio complex) all...
John Junkin accidentally writes "TITS" on a blackboard
Boozy, spouse-bashing Vincent Price and Peter Lorre run an undertaking firm, but business is slow so when Shakespeare-quoting landlord Basil ‘The fish...
Political predicaments at Richard Burton’s Papa Doc Posthouse in this reliable Graham Greene adap, with The Burt knocking a block booking from...
Cyril McNiele’s WWI captain turned two-fisted gumshoe has enjoyed more celluloid incarnations than most, from silent outings under the short-lived Astra-National banner,...
“This is your life, Timmy Lea…” The original Confessions film, in the sense of the first of the series rather than noticeably...
It’s everybody’s favourite Confessions film, this one. That is, among those who have favourite Confessions films. Jill Gascoigne! Rula Lenska! Star Knockers!...
Third of the four-strong (‘strong’? Hmm) Askwithian series, with yer cheeky protagonist and old Noggit Booth using a rather unconvincing driving school...
Still very much... aliiiive!
Eric ‘I did the Rutles, that was me, I’m Eric Idle’ Idle presents this and, despite the no-doubt hilarious irony inherent in...
Whenever you see Whoopi Goldberg being interviewed and treated like some sort of icon, it’s well to remember dross like this and...
Ches’s finest hour, worth catching for Michael Elphick’s immortal line ‘Got coppers rahnd me arse, enn oi!’ And to emphasise the Children’s...
You know how to whistle, don’t you? Sequelified as Return from the River Kwai, with Timothy Bottoms in attendance! Fortunately the second...
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