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In his second and final appearance in the series, Frankie Howerd joins Sid James (Bill Boosey), Joan Sims (Lady Evelyn Bagley) and the rest of the Carry On gang to send up the classic Tarzan […]
In 1964, the Carry On team make one of their very best, most loved movies, hilariously spoofing Elizabeth Taylor’s film Cleopatra, using the sets they abandoned at Pinewood studios when filming moved to Cinecitta in […]
Carry On Screaming (1966) is one of everybody’s favourite Carry On films. Harry H Corbett dons a cape and deerstalker as Detective Sergeant Bung and Fenella Fielding delights as vamping vampire Valeria Watt (‘Do you […]
In the 14th Carry On film, released in 1967, Jim Dale makes quite a personable hero in the relatively straight part of English coward Bertram Oliphant ‘Bo’ West (ie parodying Beau Geste), who joins the French Foreign […]
English aristocrats Sir Rodney Ffing (Sidney James) and Lord Darcy Pue (Jim Dale) join the French Revolution, in the 1967 British Carry On comedy film Don’t Lose Your Head. ‘Carry On laughing until you have […]
Director Gerald Thomas’s and producer Peter Rogers’s landmark 1958 comedy was such a hit that it turned out to be the first of 30 Carry On movies, Britain’s longest series. The breezy romp that unexpectedly […]