Carry on

[stardust2003]

Got to say that Carry on Columbus was a chance to get some new
blood into the series and get things rolling again
Julian Clary was a perfect replacement for Kenny Williams,
but the movie turned into a turkey.
There was nt enough action and movement in the movie,
they 'd built this gigantic pirate ship set and did a lot of the
movie on that.... it ended up very stale... studio based.
where was the outside shooting, where was the innovation
it should have been a new start , instead it was the death knell !

Thanks ace, but I aint a premier member of Oron !

[mrcat]

Carry on Screaming, was the best. so funny! i love Jim Dale, when he changes, into the monster, he throws Oddbod across the room! that was the peak of the carry on films for me anyway. By the seventies, they started to lose their way.

[stardust2003]

What happened to ... Carry on London ????


Ex-footballing hardman Vinnie Jones was set to star in a new Carry On film - the first to be made in 14 years.

The Two Barrels actor was star alongside Shane Richie and Victoria Silverstedt .............. the sexy Lady Victoria Hervey was in the mix for the movie "Carry On London."

The film was to be focused around a limousine company 'Lenny's Limos', which takes celebrities to a parody of the Oscars ceremony - the Herberts.

Jones described the 31-strong series of Carry On films as "a wonderful comedy tradition" adding, "It really kept me laughing through my youth so it's great news that I'm part of the tradition and able to introduce it to my own kids."

The cast was also includes glamour model Victoria Silvstedt who was to play one of the starlets being driven to the fictional awards ceremony.

The Carry On series seems to have led a parallel life to the fortunes of Hammer Films...................
They both started up in the 1950s
Their hey day was in the 1960s
and they both hit the buffers in the mid 1970s

Maybe that spoof of horror films with Kenny Williams and Fenella Fielding helped put the wooden stake into Hammer Films .

(a bit like Blazing Saddles finished off the cowboy movies in the USA )

Norman Hurdis was scriptwriter for the first 6 Carry On films and they were a gentle comedies, almost in the old Ealing comedy tradition.

However in 1963 Talbot Rothwell took over the script writing and in came sexual innuendo and more overtly sexual story lines. ( it was the swinging 60's after all ! )

By the 70s the scripts were becoming very sleazy , so much so that Babs Windsor turned them down.

(Talbot Rothwell was shot down over Norway and imprisoned in Stalag Luft 3 where he met Peter Butterworth.
They became big buddies and Talbot began writing comedy pieces that Peter performed to entertain the men and keep their morale up (not sure what Fritz thought about them ).
His first screenplay for the Carry on crew was "Carry On Cabby " )

Each "Carry On" film in the late 60's and then 70's was shot "end to end" in six weeks.

They did two per year. The average TOTAL budget for each film was £250,000

The principle contract artists (contracted to do two a year by Rank)
e.g. Kenny Williams, Babs, Sid James, Charles Hawtry etc were paid about £28,000 each per year to do the "two movies" they were contracted for.

Sid James sadly died in the mid 70s and the Carry Ons seemed to die with him......but 'Carry on London' could have been a sign that there was still life in the old format !
alas, it was a false dawn.

[Greenman]

Originally Posted by monogroover

Yes, he died in his '60s, too early. But he had a successful career aside from the Carry On films of course.

I'd seen him on Pebble Mill At One a couple of days before he died, so it was a bit of a shock when I heard that news.

I wasn't that impressed with that biopic that came out a few years ago. The bloke who played wasn't quite right. Maybe they should have persuaded Alan Sugar instead.

Carry On Camping with Sid, Barbara, Ken and others was based on a stage play but the ITV drama starred Samantha Spiro as Barbara(who made a cameo appearance towards the end) Geoffrey Hutchings-who himself died last year-was Sid and Adam Godley was Kenneth Williams.

[stardust2003]

Carry On Up The Jungle

Saturday, 27.8.2011 from 2.05 pm to 3.55 pm on ITV 3.

Carry On England

Sunday, 28.8.2011 from 12.45 am to 2.15 am on BBC 2.

That's Carry On

Sunday, 28.8.2011 from 4.50 pm to 6.50 pm on ITV 3.

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[pierrelm]

My own personal favourite is what I think is the first 'proper' Carry On: Carry On Sergeant, from 1958.

According to Wiki:
...it was based on a play The Bull Boys by R F Delderfield, directed by Gerald Thomes and produced by Peter Rodgers, a partnership which would last until 1978. Actors in this film, who went on to be part of the regular team in the series, were Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jaques, Kenneth Connor and Terry Scott...

but the film also featured William Hartnell, as the 'Sergeant' who was seemingly reprising his role from the David Niven wartime morale-booster 'The Way Ahead', a link which I think is not generally acknowleged? I think it's a smashing old British comedy, typical B&W Sunday teatime stuff with the bonus of the lovely Shirley Eaton who seems to have inexplicably married Bob Monkhouse...! (sorry, pure jealousy speaking )

I really like this, but given my own preference for Ealing comedies, Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford et al, it's scarcely suurprising as it's a mile away from the later postcard humour which became synonymous with the genre; I think 'Khyber' was about the last watchable one, although I don't mind whatever the Bernard Cribbins naval one was called? It was more of a return to the 'silly' humour with less of the blatant innuendo which just became tiresome and replaced the genuine humour.

[Navvet]

Originally Posted by pierrelm

My own personal favourite is what I think is the first 'proper' Carry On: Carry On Sergeant, from 1958.

According to Wiki:
...it was based on a play The Bull Boys by R F Delderfield, directed by Gerald Thomes and produced by Peter Rodgers, a partnership which would last until 1978. Actors in this film, who went on to be part of the regular team in the series, were Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jaques, Kenneth Connor and Terry Scott...

but the film also featured William Hartnell, as the 'Sergeant' who was seemingly reprising his role from the David Niven wartime morale-booster 'The Way Ahead', a link which I think is not generally acknowleged? I think it's a smashing old British comedy, typical B&W Sunday teatime stuff with the bonus of the lovely Shirley Eaton who seems to have inexplicably married Bob Monkhouse...! (sorry, pure jealousy speaking )

I really like this, but given my own preference for Ealing comedies, Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford et al, it's scarcely suurprising as it's a mile away from the later postcard humour which became synonymous with the genre; I think 'Khyber' was about the last watchable one, although I don't mind whatever the Bernard Cribbins naval one was called? It was more of a return to the 'silly' humour with less of the blatant innuendo which just became tiresome and replaced the genuine humour.

The Bernard Cribbins naval one was "Carry On Jack."
It also starred a young Juliet Mills.