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Trouble Brewing *** (1939, George Formby, Googie Withers, Gus McNaughton) – Classic Movie Review 1991

It was weird about Britain in the 1930s. With his buck-toothed grin, cheeky chappie George Formby only just had to strum his ukelele and sing a saucy song and the heroines in his movies capitulated to […]

Dec, 22

Carry On Cruising *** (1962, Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, Liz Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 1911

With no Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, Charles Hawtrey or Barbara Windsor, unfortunately only some of the Carry On team are aboard the SS Happy Wanderer for a Mediterranean cruise with five of the most incompetent […]

Dec, 03

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 Constable *** (1960, Sidney James, Hattie Jacques, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, Eric Barker, Leslie Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 1,908

Gerald Thomas’s 1960 laughter-raiser Carry On Constable is number four in the Carry On series of 31 films. Sid James stars as police Sgt Frank Wilkins trying to cope with comic cops Kenneth Connor, Kenneth […]

Dec, 01

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

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