Carry on films

[LilyAnn13]

Which is your favourite?

It's Carry on Loving for me 😆

The best for me are Cabbie, Sergeant, Spying, Screaming, Kyhber, and Cleo. Most are good fun, with just the last few being tacky and stretching the series too thinly.

God, this thread warms my heart. I feared you'd all be getting a severe ticking off from The Righteous when I opened it.

Anyway. Khyber first, then Screaming: 'Foul. Feet. Smell. Something horrible.'

My husband loves all the carry on films but his particular favourite is Carry on at your convenience. We watch it at Christmas guaranteed 😊

@Chamb "God, this thread warms my heart. I feared you'd all be getting a severe ticking off from The Righteous when I opened it."

Same here.

Still waiting for someone to jump on and tell us off for loving them due to the sexism, racism etc etc😂

I’m sat agog that no one’s been along to scold yet.
While they are massively stereoptypical, maybe they aren’t as bad as our memories suggest 🤣

I mean, I think they were really ‘knowing’. The various characters were very deliberately as they were, rather than unintentionally ‘-ist’.

They managed to be funny without foul language, nudity or explicit sex. Even in the famous scene in Camping, you don't get a glimpse of a nipple.

Most of the more risque jokes and innuendo would have gone over the heads of most children. They'd just enjoy the slapstick elements.

Adore the carry on films. Abroad is my favourite that scene near the end when they are all pissed and the hotel is falling down 🤣

I read about Hattie Jacques the other week. What a life she lead 😱

Well I've just learned something. I didn't know Robin Jacques the illustrator was her brother.

I did know she was married to John le M.

Ruth jones played. Hattie jaques in a bbc Drama I think it is just called Hattie, it might be on iplayer, she really did live as she wanted to.

Just had a look it is on Bbc iplayer, and it is definitely called Hattie.

Carry on Nurse! One of the early B&W ones. Joan Hickson as the Sister and Hattie Jacques of course. The memory scene with the daffodil up Wilfred Hyde-White’s bottom. It was so funny to see Miss Marple and Colonel Pickering in those roles.

Also Carry on Sergeant, Khyber, - and any scene with Kenneth William’s and Hattie Jacques. So much underrated talent.

I agree, many of the real life stories were tragic due to addiction, poverty, homophobia, mental health. There seem to be very few that did not die young.

I am also very fond of the early St Trinian’s films with Alistair Sim as Miss Fritton ans the marvellous Joyce Grenfell.

If you read John Le Mesurier's story, it is very sad how Hattie Jacques treated him and their children. she was brilliant as a matron in carry on films but I must admit reading about her life with john put me off her a bit

I sometimes think it's better not to know about celebrities' private lives. That said, I do enjoy reading celebrity memoirs.

@rwalker "My ball's burning! Step away from the fire" is from Carry on Behind, which was a spiritual successor to Camping (and filmed in the same field), but with caravans instead.

My favourites are:
Constable.
Screaming.
Cleo. "Friends.... Romans..."
Behind.
Girls, especially with the feminist character played by June Whitfield, who was apparently modelled on Mary Whitehouse.

@PrizedPickledPopcorn I too am surprised that nobody has been along to scold yet.

All of them make me laugh.
we used to be shown a Carry On film (on a reel to tell projector) as part of our school
Christmad parties. We didn’t understand most of the jokes at the time, but o think the teachers enjoyed them, and the peace and quiet they got while we kids were watching.

Loved them all but think Camping , Abroad,Dr ,Matron and Nurse were their very best .

The Black FingerNail!!

Watched that a few weeks ago @Lomonald my heart went out to John Le M

Will never look at Matron the same way again. Such a sad situation all round.

If anyone didn't know, there's a load of Carry Ons on ITV X. I've just put Screaming on!

Love them! Camping, abroad and convenience are my top 3. Love a good carry on film. Also love the bless this house film and the on the buses films.

@scalt Great to see your mention of 'Behind' - that's my joint second favourite alongside with 'Camping'. The opening scene where Kenneth Williams is narrating 'Miss Fosdyke's' archeological dig to the film of a stripper - 'two large mounds ... and now Miss Fosdyke is about to uncover something of enormous interest' has me laughing straight away. And Jack Douglas with his 'ginger quill' and the Galloping Major and the mynah bird.

It's consistently overlooked as a sort of second-rate update of Camping but I think it's just as good in its own way. I also love the 70s decor of the caravans - I was a small child when it came out so it feels very cosy to see all the orange curtains etc.

Unrelatedly, in terms of past fashions, it's always amused me to see the Flowerbuds and their hippy fans in 'Camping' go in and out of fashion. That scene looked much more dated in the 1980s than in the 1990s; it's going through another dated-looking phase, but looking forward to it not being again because I love the old hippy look.

Carry on Camping. There’s just nothing like them now. They still make me howl/

Oh, yes. Holiday on the Buses is my favourite of the buses films, though I think it was the poorest-performing at the time - the first one was apparently the highest grossing movie of 1971 in the UK.

Have you seen 'The Best Pair of Legs in the Business' - Reg Varney's attempt to break away from the character of Stan Butler? It was included as a bonus disc in my On The Buses boxset and I really enjoyed it.

I think I might have to start a Carry On marathon- I didn't realise there were so many!

Also- in Carry On Camping I noticed just how short Barbra Windsor's shorts were and thought 'Nothing new under the sun then' 😆