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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 […]
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, […]
‘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 […]
Sid James and Joan Sims play Vic and Cora Flange, who join a motley crew of British holidaymakers on a four-day package tour to the Spanish resort of the island of Elsbels on the Costa […]
Small is beautiful. Happy days with the ramshackle, debt-ridden old London fleapit cinema called The Bijou in the 1957 Brit comedy film The Smallest Show on Earth. Director Basil Dearden’s adorable 1957 British comedy classic […]
English villagers take direct action when their rail line faces heartless government closure by running it themselves. Charles Crichton’s 1953 Ealing Studios comedy gem The Titfield Thunderbolt glories in the antique values of the […]
‘ Gerald Thomas’s 1972 comedy film Carry On Matron is the 23rd in the series and the fourth Carry On with a hospital background. Most of the regular team is assembled in an amusing episode, […]