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Carry On Regardless *** (1961, Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Bill Owen, Liz Fraser, Hattie Jacques) – Classic Movie Review 1909

Director Gerald Thomas’s 1961 comedy of misunderstandings Carry On Regardless is the fifth Carry On movie. It is the one about the Helping Hands employment agency, whose boss, Bert Handy (Sidney James) assigns odd jobs to bungling odd-job […]

Dec, 02

Carry On Cabby *** (1963, Sidney James, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Connor, Liz Fraser, Charles Hawtrey, Jim Dale, Esma Cannon) – Classic Movie Review 1907

  Director Gerald Thomas’s 1963 comedy Carry On Cabby was planned as a non-Carry On film called Call Me a Cab, which in fact is neatly the film’s last line spoken by Sidney James as Charlie Hawkins, […]

Dec, 01

The Way to the Stars **** (1945, John Mills, Michael Redgrave, Trevor Howard) – Classic Movie Review 1337

Director Anthony Asquith’s stirring 1945 wartime salute to the Royal Air Force concentrates on the personal relationships of a group of men stationed on a World War Two British bomber airfield. In the star department, there […]

Jun, 18

Carry On Nurse **** (1959, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Bill Owen, Irene Handl, June Whitfield, Leslie Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 1213

One of the most successful and best of the Carry On movies, director Gerald Thomas’s Carry On Nurse was Britain’s top money-maker in 1959. Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams and Wilfrid Hyde White star as broken-wristed […]

May, 14

Carry On Sergeant **** (1958, William Hartnell, Bob Monkhouse, Shirley Eaton, Eric Barker, Dora Bryan, Bill Owen, Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey) – Classic Movie Review 454

Director Gerald Thomas’s and producer Peter Rogers’s landmark 1958 comedy was such a hit that it turned out to be the first of 30 Carry On movies, Britain’s longest series. The breezy romp that unexpectedly […]

Nov, 27

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