Carry On films

[33011]

Carry On films.does anyone like them? I love them myself. Whilst growing up I thought they were great but it wasn't until my teens that I started to get a lot more of the jokes for example the Sid James character in Carry On Don't Lose Your Head Sir Rodney Effing with 2 f's or in Carry On Camping When Charles Hawtree meets the young woman with the cow

CH "Whats a nice girl like you doing with an old cow?"

Young Woman " I'm taking her to the Bull"

CH "Cant' your Father do it?"

Young Woman " No it has to be the Bull"


I their day they were very near the mark. Nowadays they are tame but i still love them. If you like Carry On films do you have any favorite scenes or film?

 

[yorksrob]

I'm quite picky with them.

I've never been into Carry on Girls or Carry on Cruising, but Carry on Doctor, Nurse, Cabbie, Jack, Don't Loose Your Head, Up the Khyber and Up the Jungle are superb.

My favourite though is Carry on at Your Convenience funny and biting social commentary at the same time (and Hatty Jaques with the budgerigar is hilarious )

On an unrelated note, the song Carry On Wayward Son by American rock band Kansas from 1976 is also pretty good, but not as far as I'm aware related to the film franchise.
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Oh - and I almost forgot - Camping.

 

[Cab2Cab]

Carry on screaming QUALITY!!!!

ODDBOD and JUNIOR, i bet there is some railway staff out there that look like these two.

 

[yorksrob]

Carry on screaming QUALITY!!!!

ODDBOD and JUNIOR, i bet there is some railway staff out there that look like these two.

"Frying Tonight" !!!

 

[Pumbaa]

The final scenes of Khyber are pure class - dinner as the place crumbles.

 

[Pumbaa]

And my favourite line, I'm sure it is many people's favourite;

"Oh infamy infamy, they've all got it in for me!"

 

[Condor7]

Hattie Jacques as Matron tells Dr Cutting (Kenneth Williams) who is trying to get her into bed, "I'm a simple woman with simple tastes. I want to be wooed". To which Williams replies, "You can be as wude as you like with me!"

 

[IanD]

My favourite is also At Your Convenience.

My favourite scene is from Behind (fnarr) where Elke Sommer is keeping a dirty caravan and looking for some scrubbers.

 

[341o2]

The final scenes of Khyber are pure class - dinner as the place crumbles.

Yes, and did you catch the line from bungti din "That'll teach them to ban turbans on the buses!"

At first they were quite tame, but more and more innuendo crept in. Kenneth Williams was previously in the radio show Beyond our Ken which being late 50's was quite reserved. The same team immediately came back for a new show Round the Horne which was far more explicit, Wiiliams & Hugh Paddick played two outrageously camp characters with lines such as

From the Bona (slang for good as opposed to naff) Ballet "Prelude de l'apres midi d'un goose"
Or round the world troll in a lifeboat "Cruising for two days, not a bouy in sight - navigational bouys, what did you think I meant"

Don't loose your head and Screaming definitely, especially as Fenella Fielding could make a shopping list sound sexy "Do you mind if I smoke" and Peter Butterworth captured dressed as a woman "It'll get a shock when it looks!"

 

[Butts]

I liked The Carry On Films as I grew up with them along with James Bond.

In Carry on Camping all youth's were waiting for Barbara Windsors assets to be exposed in the exercise scene

Seriously the top performers were:

Sid James

Kenneth Williams

Hattie Jaques

Joan Sims

Barbara Windsor

Charles Hawtrey

They started off well but towards the end had declined as the "stalwarts" either passed or went away.

 

[33011]

My favorite scene from Carry On Abroad is when Sid Flange is sat round the dining table with his wife and Mr and Mrs Blunt.

Sid Flange offers a drink Mrs Blunt

Sid "Drink?"
Mrs Blunt "No thankyou I tried it once and didn't like it."
Sid "smoke"
Mrs Blunt " No thankyou I tried it once and didn't like it"
Sid "strange"
Mrs Blunt "My Daughter is just the same"
Sid "your only child I presume"

I did not get that joke until I was older.

 

[doubleamber]

My favourite is also At Your Convenience.

My favourite scene is from Behind (fnarr) where Elke Sommer is keeping a dirty caravan and looking for some scrubbers.

Defo the best carry on film!

But saying that i have all of them on my hard drive.

so baldy British comedy,

Other fav, carry on again doctor, dont loose your head, carry on cowboy, carry on cruising, carrry on loving

 

[Seacook]

The same team immediately came back for a new show Round the Horne which was far more explicit, Wiiliams & Hugh Paddick played two outrageously camp characters with lines such as

I never much cared for the Carry On films but I listened to Round The Horne on Sundays in the 1960s. One of the best lines from Julian and Samdy was in (I think) their first appearance, as lawyers for Bona Law:

"we have a criminal practice that takes up most of our time"

'Bona Law' might have been meant as reference to Andrew Bonar Law, the former prime minister.

 

[90019]

I never much cared for the Carry On films but I listened to Round The Horne on Sundays in the 1960s. One of the best lines from Julian and Samdy was in (I think) their first appearance, as lawyers for Bona Law:

"we have a criminal practice that takes up most of our time"

'Bona Law' might have been meant as reference to Andrew Bonar Law, the former prime minister.

If you didn't already know, they're currently broadcasting series one of Round the Horne on Radio 4 Extra on mondays. Episode Eight is currently on iPlayer.

 

[341o2]

I'm following the series.

One of my favourite episodes starts with Rasputin, continuing with religious crank J Peasmold Gruntfuttock (also played by Williams ) with his latest vision "just after the pubs were closed, I saw a pigs head in the window and it did speak unto me...bit difficult as it had an apple in its mouth"

There then followed Kenneth Horne Master Spy with the opening lines

Brian Horrocks (on phone)....My secretary, Miss Golightly and I have been at UNO all day. Can you get here soon

Kenneth Horne It'll take some time

BH That's all right, we'll probably be going on to the small hours......

KH So pausing only to throw my baggage into the car, and drive her round to her mothers....

At UNO building

BH We've got some photographs that are worrying us. This one for example

KH (amused) Good heavens, Miss Golightly could catch a cold doing that

BH Let me see (embarassed laugh) that was taken on the MI5 outing to Southend....


In a send up of Goldfinger, where KH finds the girl covered in gold paint "He said he had come round to touch up me dado"

And in a reply to a complaint from a listner, the reply was like this

We are sorry you find round the Horne offensive. Could you detail exactly what you find offensive

This called his bluff as the show was all innuendo as per the sample above. Nowhere does it explicitly state that Brian Horrocks and Miss Golightly were indulging in erm....

 

[swj99]

For me, Carry on Camping has to be a favourite. I'm not one for being able to watch the same film over and over again, but that one I can. Brilliant. I love the way everything in the campsite costs a pound.

I've always remembered a couple of lines from a film which I thought was a Carry On, but I've just looked it up and the film is actually Doctor in Clover.

‘A lump of shrapnel hit me right up the…’ … ’Rectum?’ …
‘Well it didn’t do ‘em any good!’

http://laughterlog.com/2009/05/23/film-doctor-in-the-movies/