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Carry on Henry *** (1971, Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Charles Hawtrey, Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Connor, Terry Scott) – Classic Movie Review 2375
Director Gerald Thomas and producer Peter Rogers assemble a splendid vintage Carry On cast for their amusing 1971 English historical send-up, with a screenplay by Talbot Rothwell. Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Charles Hawtrey, Barbara Windsor, […]
Carry On Dick *** (1974, Kenneth Williams, Sidney James, Joan Sims, Barbara Windsor, Hattie Jacques) – Classic Movie Review 1906
‘Dick Turpin carries on with his flintlock cocked!’ Madame Desirée: ‘That doesn’t scare me. I’ve seen bigger ones in my time.’ Dick Turpin: ‘That doesn’t surprise me.’ Director Gerald Thomas’s 1974 historical fiction Carry On […]
Up Pompeii *** (1971, Frankie Howerd, Julie Ege, Michael Hordern, Barbara Murray, Patrick Cargill) – Classic Movie Review 1,210
Frankie Howerd’s hilarious and smutty TV sitcom series of Pompeiian scandals is opened out for director Bob Kellett’s jolly 1971 big-screen version Up Pompeii featuring an excellent entirely new support cast. A funny thing happened […]
Carry On Up the Khyber **** (1968, Sidney James, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Bernard Bresslaw, Peter Butterworth, Roy Castle, Terry Scott, Angela Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 1134
The 16th Carry On film from 1968 Carry On Up the Khyber is easily one of the finest, delivering a hilarious quota of great fun as the team take to India in the 1890s and […]
Carry On Follow That Camel *** (1967, Phil Silvers, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Angela Douglas, Joan Sims, Charles Hawtrey, Peter Butterworth) – Classic Movie Review 1131
In the 14th Carry On film, released in 1967, Jim Dale makes quite a personable hero in the relatively straight part of English coward Bertram Oliphant ‘Bo’ West (ie parodying Beau Geste), who joins the French Foreign […]
Carry On: Don’t Lose Your Head *** (1966, Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Dany Robin, Peter Butterworth, Peter Gilmore) – Classic Movie Review 1128
‘Carry On laughing until you have hysterics, but… Don’t Lose Your Head!’ The 1967 British comedy film Don’t Lose Your Head is the 13th in the series of 31 Carry On films (1958–1992), and features […]