Does anyone like Carry On films? [guilty emoticon]

[BalloonSlayer]

Saw a TV programme this morning re the Queen, and the Royal Yacht Britannia. These guys that had worked there for xxxx years said they had watched films with the Royal Family in the yacht's improvised cinema.

Chap was asked for an example of a film he had seen with the Royal Family and named "Carry on up the Khyber." He then went on to relate at length what it was about.

Well I am a feminist. No, I AM! But I was delighted. I love Carry on up the Khyber. And a lot of the others. But not all! Some of them are crap.

Any one else. Or am I a bit plastered?

[tempname12]

I used to love them in my early teens, even persuaded my mum to buy the DVDs. I still love some of them, but more because of the actors - Frankie Howerd and Kenneth Williams especially. Haven't seen any in quite a while though, TV never seems to show the decent ones IMO.

[SuffolkNWhat]

My favourite is a really early one, Carry on Teacher!

[wombattoo]

Sorry Balloon but they are the crappest films of all time. and they are never off the bloody tv

[elQuintoConyo]

Infamy, infamy! They've all got it in for me!

[elQuintoConyo]

And "Matron, I want to be wooed!"
"Doctor, you can be as wooed as you like!"

[SorrelForbes]

Blast, I was just going to use that quote elQuintoConyo!

They are a guilty pleasure, especially Carry On Up the Khyber and Carry On Screaming.

Lord and Lady Ruff-Diamond

[SorrelForbes]

"Frying tonight"

[Taytocrisps]

I especially love 'Carry on Abroad'.

[liquidrevolution]

Love em . Some are quite dire though...

[Zwellers]

Like the early black and white ones. Carry on sergeant with a young bob monkhouse and carry on nurse especially. Had a crush on Terence longden. Later ones awful I'm. Seventies at its worst

[AlpacaLypse]

They're of their time - and some are perfectly brilliant! Others not so...

If we refused to watch/read stuff from the past just because it was reflecting the contemporary accepted social mores, we'd all end up with a terribly limited selection!

[LadyTrevelyan]

Carry On Screaming is the best film ever.

Different name but have waxed lyrical about CO films. Or I may have just rambled.

However, I hold firm in my belief that COScreaming is the best.

[annandale]

Love Joan Sims and Charles Hawtrey, could watch them for a long time.

[EveryoneElsie]

Aaiiieee!

Carry On Screaming is a classic. And so was Jim Dale [heart]

[LadyTrevelyan]

"Do you mind if I smoke?" *

[cdtaylornats]

I love the black & white St. Trinians as well

[SorrelForbes]

A young Roy Castle in Carry On Up The Khyber

[DameXanaduBramble]

Carry on matron is my fav, Finishem Hospital. Ha ha ha.

[LadyTrevelyan]

The lady with the amazing eyes in Cleo, just lovely and then Alma.

[SorrelForbes]

Amanda Barrie as Cleo

[AlpacaLypse]

For instance, I love golden era detective fiction - D L Sayers, Ngaio Marsh etc. Written from the 20's - 50's. (It all got a bit silly after about 1960).

Most of the time, it's great, Sayers in particular was a feminist, even though she didn't think of herself of as one, and it's all trundling along... and then a bit of casual racism of breathtaking proportions appears in the narrative - and you remember that the world before WW2 was a very very different place, and that the Nazi viewpoints about race and eugenics were supported by substantial numbers of educated 'nice' people across the world :(

[Boogers]

Oh matron!

I love Carry On films! They're a guilty pleasure, along with Colombo.