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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, […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]