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Carry On Films

  • 19-09-2010 9:54pm
    #1
    branie
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    anyone here ever watch this comedy series from England? They're very good (with the exceptions of Carry on England and Carry On Emmannuelle).


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  • #2
    mike65
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    Oh I imagine one or two have seen one or two! They are not very good, a few are decent slapstick - not one made after 1967 is even worth setting fire to what with the price of matches these days.


  • #3
    MagicMarker
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    Loved them as a kid.

    Not so much nowadays!


  • #4
    krudler
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    Carry On Screaming is brilliant, the others are kinda pants, the stuff your grandparents would find hilarious, Carry on Doctor isnt bad either.


  • #5
    Deliverance
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    krudler wrote: »
    Carry On Screaming is brilliant, the others are kinda pants, the stuff your grandparents would find hilarious, Carry on Doctor isnt bad either.

    Same as, they were the only two that I liked as a kid. The rest kind of grew on me as an adult once I got the innuendo.

    Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor etc all became kind of iconic over time. Great characters, all individual in their own way mixed together in a ridiculous way. At the time they could do no wrong in a prudish society.

    Inunedo was the only way at the time to get past the Brit censors and Mary Whitehouse. They did it well.


  • #6
    krudler
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    I liked watching them with my grandparents as a kid, RTE used to show them nearly every Saturday over the summer, probably the only time you'd see a pair of tits and nobody would be offended as it was in such light mannered humour. They seem completely antiquated now but they had their place in time.


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  • #7
    mikemac
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    I didn't like all of them
    But I loved the one where they operated a taxi cab firm
    I don't know the title of the film. I could find out quickly in a google search

    That was the best one I saw, very very funny
    This thread has me wanting to buy it from amazon.co.uk :)


  • #8
    Posy
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    feelingstressed wrote: »
    But I loved the one where they operated a taxi cab firm
    I don't know the title of the film.
    Carry on Cabby I believe. :)

    I thought they were hilarious when I was a kid. Some of them were quite poor now in retrospect. I still love Carry On Screaming (my favourite one) Carry on Doctor and Carry on again Doctor. I also think Carry on Dick (with Sid James as Dick Turpin) is still pretty funny. :)


  • #9
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,753 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Good send up/homage to the Carry On genre:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcBOX1JBcjQ


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