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Advantages: It's a good carry on
Disadvantages: None

...is nothing like a good Carry On either on a Sunday afternoon or over a Bank Holiday weekend. This has to be one of my favourites from the Carry On films because it is taking history and making it funny that appeals to most ages. The Plot = We begin the film by watching the be-heading of one of his wives and just as she has the chop, Henry runs off to the chapel to marry his next one, Marie. As Henry is about to bed his new queen, he gets ...
...who appeared in some earlier Carry On and later was director of Photography for Gerald Thomas Stills Gallery - a collection of photos from the film also includes some deleted scene pictures On Location Report - includes interviews with Sid James, Kenneth Williams and Terry Scott Carry On Trivia - notes on the Carry On films and Carry On Henry in particular Collectors Booklet containing star profiles is also contain in the DVD case Overview ... Read review

Advantages: Is one of the best Carry On's
Disadvantages: None as such

Carry On Abroad truly encapsulates the feel-good spirit that made the films such an enduring success. Nearly all of the teams favourite regulars are here as well as some extra additions to the cast line-up. The usual batch of players that are present and clearly on good form are Sid James, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams, Peter Butterworth, Charles Hawtrey, Babara Windsor, Hattie Jaques, Kenneth Connor and Bernard Bresslaw and are joined by Scottish ...
...the best endings in a Carry On film, firmly holding onto that fine, feel-good spirit which would slowly dissolve from here on. The cast are all on usual form, though Peter Butterworth and Hattie Jaques are perharps the best players here. They make an almost Laurel and Hardy kind of duo and Jaques in particular is an unusual role, playing a Spanish, downtrodden and seemingly demented cook. The rest of the cast certainly get their moments including ... Read review

Advantages: Great performances all round
Disadvantages: None as such

Carry On Again Doctor(1969) is, in my own opinion, the funniest of the medical Carry On's. There is more structure to the plot than there was in Carry On Nurse (1958) or Carry On Doctor (1968) and the film being divided into three sections works well as there really feels as though there is a beginning, middle and end of a story. Most of the same actors that were used in Doctor (1967) crop up in this entry with some playing almost identical characters. ...
...also includes all the best Carry On gang Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Charles Hawtrey, Sid James (who is not introduced until at least half way through the film), Hattie Jaques, yet again reprising her familiar role of the Matron (though plays this more gently in this one in contrast to the more ferocious steretype displayed in Nurse and Doctor) and the bubbly Babara Windsor who quickly catches Jim Dales roving eye. Carry On Again Doctor on the whole ... Read review

Advantages: The addition of Frankie Howard in the cast
Disadvantages: Slow in parts

Following the hilarious medical caper Carry On Again Doctor (1969) (one of my own personal favourites in the series) the merry old Carry On gang retreated into another historical theme for what was the last Carry On film of the swinging sixties (which was the decade that the Carry On films were in their prime), Carry On Up The Jungle (1969). The Carry On films were always essentially British so it's actually quite surprising that they enjoyed such ...
...cinemas for nearly three years!!). Carry On Up The Jungle was really no exception and the film predicatbly runs through all of those familiar gags and double entendres that we've all seen and heard probably 1,000 times before in other Carry On films but it's the super-fine performances of the irreplacable Carry On players that ignite Carry On Up The Jungle into such a wonderful film (not to mention spot-on direction from Gerald Thomas aided by the ... Read review

Advantages: A great and classic entry
Disadvantages: None as such

Carry On Girls (1973) was the 25th entry in this staggeringly long-running British comedy film series. The Carry On films were beginning to slide in popularity at this stage of the game. At one point at least three Carry On films were made per year. However by 1972 the productions of the Carry On had slowed down to just once a year, a sure sign that the end was not far off. But as the wonderful Carry On Girls (1973) went to prove, there was life ...
...his drunken antics on the Carry On Abroad set and after continual disagreements with producer, Peter Rogers over wanting his name elevated above the title which no Carry On star was ever rewarded), Kenneth Williams and the formidable Hattie Jaques are all sadly missed from this entry. There is surprisingly enough fun, laughter and games to enjoy throughout in Carry On Girls (1973) and the main regular Carry On stars in the series that are present ... Read review