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?

[ShatnersBassoon]

I like most of them. COScreaming is the best. I like On the Buses too. I enjoy smutty humour.

[Teddy1970]

I love Carry on Films, it's good harmless fun! My favourites are Carry on Dick and Carry on Again Doctor, not so keen on Carry on Screaming.

[TiggyD]

Many are good. Some are dire.

The early ones start off quite formulaic. Odd people who come together in the end to succeed. The middle ones are best: Cleo, Khyber, Screaming, Jungle, Camping, Camel, Cowboy, Jack etc. The late ones just trade subtle entendre and naughtiness for blatant sex.

Just seen they did one in 2009. Carry on London. That went well then!

[TiggyD]

Forget London. Announced in 2003. Possibly due in 2017. Hmmm.

[elephantoverthehill]

'Pound' from Carry on Camping is a stock phrase in my family.

[TimeIhadaNameChange]

"I was once a weak man."

"Once a week is enough for any man!"

Love 'em!

[justdontevenfuckingstart]

Carry on abroad is just brilliant. I love them all, am singing Carry on Screaming in my head.

[FairNotFair]

Ooh, Alpaca, a fellow Ngaio Marsh fan!

[DoughNut12345]

Doctor, 'nice big breaths'
Patient, ' yes, and I'm only 16'

[tethersend]

I have no idea how to reconcile my feminist principles with my deep love of Carry On Girls

[BalloonSlayer]

Oh yes whenever we have to say "a £" - it's "paaahhhhnd"

[CockacidalManiac]

Favourite bit from Khyber; Terry Scott finding out that the ammo has been replaced by a record in the machine gun. Makes me laugh every time.
I think that Cleo looks classier than normal because they stiole all the sets from the Liz Taylor epic.

[annandale]

Totally Alpacalypse. Sudden appearance of 'sterilisation of the unfit' in the first chapters of Gaudy Night always gives me a turn.

[CockacidalManiac]

Harry H Corbett was only in Screaming, and Phil Silvers only in Follow That Camel, because Sid James was too ill each time.

[DramaAlpaca]

Another Ngaio Marsh fan here!

And I love Carry On films

[CrackerChops]

Yes, I absolutely love them. They never fail to cheer me up, and I love the hospital and holiday ones the best

[Witchend]

Carry on don't lose your head is my favourite.
Ds loves them too (8yo). He watched Carry on camping at Christmas and was most put out they never got to the nudist camp site.
He likes carry on Sergeant and teacher best.

[Xenadog]

I adore the Carry On films. I was given a book years ago which told you about each film and it was quite opening as there were a few bits of gossip about the various actors and the filming. For example in CO Camping where Babs Windsor is doing the chest exercises and her bra comes off (hooked up to a fishing wire and then yanked) Hattie Jaques grabs her arms to drag her off but grabs so firmly Barbara W's hand comes off her boob. This wasn't meant to happen but because the directors were so tight for time they used it and didn't shoot again.

Oh and the grass they are standing on was actually mud spray painted green as they filmed in winter!

I love these little nuggets of information.

Oh and the foreword to the book was written by Phil Collins from Genesis - fame. He loves a bit of Carry On!

[bertsdinner]

I like them, though some are pretty dire. I love Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques and that little bald guy with glasses. Carry on Screaming, and that one where they are "Brits Abroad", in a Spanish hotel are the best.
I love Sid James laugh

[Chorltonswheelies422]

LOVE LOVE LOVE carry on films!! Never fail to cheer me up - an early favourite is CO Constable, CO Nurse and CO Cabby - Hattie Jaques is magnificent in that one. CO Abroad and Convenience are also particular favourites.

I discovered Round the Horne and beyond our Ken on radio iplayer - they are sheer genius- so if you like CO humour, recommend these for you

[SlipperyJack]

CO Sergeant is a great film - quite bittersweet in places. The ones from the 70s are mostly awful. But I love all the others, especially Khyber, Camel and Regardless.

[elQuintoConyo]

When they go to Els Bells in Spain DH and I have given many a grim town that moniker!

Has anyone else seen San Ferry Ann? Few similar castmembers, silent film about catching the ferry to France. Hilarious.

[Tate15]

Some are better than others and I love them!

One which I always watch if I can is Carry on Cabby, as well as being a great comedy it has sad moments for Hattie and of course the whole issue of girls being as good as the guys! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry_On_Cabby

[KenDoddsDadsDog]

I really love them . My favourite is Carry On At Your Convenience , never fails to make a bank holiday!

[EsmesBees]

Love them too. Especially At your Convenience, Camping, Henry and Matron. We watched them as kids and most of the innuendo went over our heads.