Nice to see Carry on Cabby get some love. The black and white films tend to get overlooked these days, but Cabby was where the series started to find its own identity away from the influence of the earlier (wonderful) Ealing comedies. Great list, btw. For what it's worth, my top ten would be: 1. Carry on Cowboy 2. Carry on Screaming 3. Carry on Cleo 4. Carry on Up the Khyber 5. Carry on Cabby 6. Carry on Constable 7. Don't Lose Your Head 8. Carry on at Your Convenience 9. Carry on Doctor 10. Carry on Abroad
Great roundup and I pretty much agree with not only your selection but the order too. I'm surprised you didn't have time to mention that when Harry H. Corbett's character Detective Sgt Sidney Bung and Slobotham going in a cart to get the mannikin from the fashion shop there's the Steptoe Theme worked into the music score at that point. What a nice nod to the role he was most famous for, and a shame he didn't do more Carry Ons
"Friends! Romans!" and is then interrupted by people who think he's forgotten the rest of the introduction with "Countrymen?", to which Julius replies angrily "I KNOW!!"
I also liked Carry on Teacher. The most incredible line that got past the censors was in Don't Lose Your Head, where Joan Simms, a countess, said, pointing to Charles Hawtrey, "And, my brother, the Count". The Count being pronounced in such an extremely posh accent suggesting a certain 'letter' in Count was missing. Unforgettable. 😂😂 I seem to be the only one who liked Carry on Teacher, Leslie Philips and Miss Allcock! DING DONG! and Constable? Ah well, we all have our favourites.
@@johnhenry7972 HE PROBABLY DID A LOT OF LINE AND NAMES APPEAR IN MORE THAN ONE FILM I REMEMBER TWO FILMS HAVE ERNEST BRAGG( BEHIND AND OF THE HOSPITAL ONES). AND PETER POTTER,( GIRLS AND CAMPING)
My favorites are the early black and white ones with Leslie Howard and the nervous version of Kenneth Connor. Sid James was the straight man, also. "Constable Constable" 🤣
'Teacher' is a favourite of mine too, and I think it's one of the most underrated Carry Ons. All the cast were brilliant, and Leslie Philips was simply hilarious (as he was in Constable).
I think one of the great Carry On lines was from Barbara Windsor in Henry. 'A great honour. The King has done me' when it was supposed to be 'A great honour the king has done me.' Apart from of course Kenneth Williams in Cleo 'Infamy infamy. They've all got it in for me.' And Kenneth Williams again in Screaming ' Frying tonight.'
My Mother used to love the "Carry on" films. As a kid, presumably in the early seventies, my parents took me to see their stage show in London. Just looked, "Carry On London"! Probably very late '73 for Christmas at the Victoria Palace theatre?
I've always loved the Carry On Films (I'm a child of the 1960's) and take every chance I get to watch them. Unfortunately this isn't as often as I'd like as I don't currently live in the UK. I have however passed on my love of them to my two daughters and would struggle to pick my top ten as I love Khyber, Screaming, Cleo, Doctor and so many of the others! Screaming
In Carry on Screaming, it's also important to note that this featured an excellent, memorable cameo from Captain Peacock himself, Frank Thornton, as the shop owner whose store is broken into.
Good timing. I picked up the dvd box set super cheap at Christmas, and I’m going through them sequentially. I’m only up to Screaming. Jack and Cabbie I don’t think were technically planned to be Carry On movies, but they got rebadged on release. I agree with your opinion about Cabbie, it’s really charming and has a genuine story. I personally would have found a place for Spying (rather than Jack)
Great list My top 10: 1) carry on abroad 2) carry on doctor 3) carry on don’t lose your head 4) carry on camping 5) carry on cabby 6) carry on up the kyber 7) carry on constable 8) carry on matron 9) follow that camel 10) carry on Henry
THE BEST LINES IN IT "WHY DO THE GIRAFFES HAVE SUCH LONG NECKS"? "BECAUSE THEIR HEAD IS SO FAR AWAY FROM ITS BODY" AND "THE NOSHERS EAT PEOPLE, VERY BACKWARD", "THERE NOT EATING ME BACKWARD".
A very good list, and no glaring omissions. My top 10 would be, 1. Khyber 2. Screaming. 3. Camping. 4. Cabby 5. Cleo. 6. Abroad. 7. Behind (easily my favourite from the mainly poor later entries) 8. Cowboy 9. Teacher. 10. Matron.
I also have Carry On Admiral in my collection. Also the Gerald Thomas/Peter Rogers comedy films that didn't have the "Carry On" title ("Don't Lose Your Head" and "Follow That Camel" had "Carry On" added to them later) - including "Raising the Wind", "Watch Your Stern", "Twice Round the Daffodils" and "Please Turn Over".
Thank you so much for this. Took me back to being a kid growing up in the Uk before coming to S.A in '76. Ive subscribed! Regards from South Africa Andrew 🇿🇦
Loved these growing up in the 1990s. They were always on at the weekend. Usually on ITV. Some of those one liners used to floor me. Charles Hawtrey probably made me laugh the most.
@dannyspelman1468 Yes, remember Charlie listening to the radio in bed in Carry on Hospital and laughing to himself. Also, people smoking in bed in hospital in the 60s!! True, of course. One scene that absolutely shocked me as a kid was when a male orderly came up to Leslie Phillips in bed to prepare him for 'down below' surgery. He had a shaving mug and a razor. Leslie said, "Oh, I done need that, I had a shave this morning." The orderly said, "I'm not here to shave your face!" I couldn't believe it.
Good top ten. I watch every year the collection, usually in order too. It does show how subjective personal opinions are as my favourite 2 Carry On's didn't even feature in your top 10. I love the historical type ones, and the 2 I loved the most are Carry On Dick, and my all time fave Carry On Don't Lose Your Head. The black fingernail/Sir Rodney Ffing double personality of Sid James cracks me up all the time, never gets old.
The guy from Mind your language is Barry Evans and he died in the 90s. There's talk about the mysterious circumstances of his death and on Fb there's an author collecting bits and pieces of information about him to write about him and his death, but it's been a long time coming and I'm wondering if there's any progress on the book. It might be a good topic for a video if you're up for it. I'd always love to watch anything related to Barry Evans
Carry on Cowboy? That is in my opinion a fantastic movie. The Rumpo Kid.... Sheriff P Knutt...Judge Birk. A sanitary inspector cleans up the town?! Brilliant.😃
That scene of Sid and Joan laughing in Abroad always cracks me up. They're clearly not just laughing for the camera. Cruising is a good one just to see Esma Cannon's dotty old lady
As well as the Carry on films, there was also a number of unofficial Carry on films or Carry on adjacent films that didn't have the Carry on title but were produced by Peter Rogers and starring the Carry on cast, such as Watch Your Stern, Raising the Wind, and Twice Round the Daffodils.
@@terrymurphy2032 that would be included among what I referred to as unofficial Carry on films or Carry on adjacent films, of which I only gave three examples of those that were produced. I know that there's more but these are just three examples of the series of films.
Good video and I hope after watching this people who have not seen the films start watching them . I love the dinner party scene in Up the Khyber , it always makes me laugh . I always think only the British upper classes would sit having a posh meal at a dining table while under attack . The film I really am not keen on at all is Carry on England
YOU HAVE 4 OF MY TOP TEN CABBY (4), CAMPING(5), CLEO (6), ABROAD (7), MY TOP THREE ARE, 1 AT YOUR CONVENIENCE, 2 UP THE JUNGLE, 3 DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD. MY OTHER THREE ARE, ENGLAND (8), CRUSING (9), BEHIND (10)
I guess because I love history, I always find myself going for the Western/Tudor/Roman/Khyber Pass films but Carry on Screaming will always be my favourite. But shout-outs for CO Cabby & CO at Your Convenience.
Eyyy Carry on Doctor 🤙 I always liked that one. Carry on Camping is probably my favourite - Mr. Muggins is just hilarious "get yer stinkin' carcass out of our bloody tent!". Rewatched Screaming a few months ago and while good, I felt went on a bit and lacked some of the laughs for me (yeah, unpopular opinion). Enjoyed your ranking 👍
The top Ten Carry on films 10. Carry on Constable. 9. Carry on Up the Khyber 8. Carry on Cleo 7. Carry on Nurse 6. Carry on Don’t Lose Your Head 5. Carry on at Your Convenience 4. Carry on Abroad 3. Carry on Cruising 2. Carry on Cabby 1. Carry On Camping
I know most of those, thank you for the recommendations for the rest. 😊 Personally I have a soft spot for Carry on Spying, nonstop nonsense. The funny thing is, I kinda grew up with those films, too. In the late 80s, for whatever reasons, on of the private broadcasters in Germany used to air these films in their morning programme. And there was enough slapstick in them to entertain me over the holidays. I remember seeing Camping and Doctor back in those days.
Carry on Sergeant starred William Hartnell (Doctor Who #1) while Carry on Screaming had Jon Pertwee (Doctor Who #3)! Frankie Howerd was in a class of his own. Carry on Camping was probably my favorite overall. Peter Butterworth appeared as "possibly" the first incarnation of the Master in an early Doctor Who story during the Hartnell years.
Personally I really think that ‘…Behind’ is an overlooked gem, Davis and Douglas really work well together. Although on screen Roy Castle is only in ‘…up the khyber’ he is on the soundtrack of ‘…Loving’, it’s his quintet in the background of the bar.
Up the khyber is my favourite too. Love the historical ones best.😂 2. Cleo. 3. Don't lose your head. 4. Henry. 5. Dick. 6. Sergeant. 7. Screaming. 8. Cowboy. 9. Spying. 10. Regardless.
My top 10 ‘Carry Ons’ would have been the following:- Cowboy, Loving, Constable, Spying, Cruising, Cleo, Cabby, Don’t Lose Your Head, At Your Convenience and Screaming, with Cowboy and Loving being numbers 1 and 2. 😂
Carry on don’t lose your head is up there as a favourite. One of the best carry on lines between Sid James and Joan Sims: “Madam you look an absolute picture… …trifle overexposed”
Now you see... As someone actually old enough to have watched a Carry On film at the cinema at it's time of release, my own #1 would be your #4. BUT.. Having said that, my #2 would be your #1. And I sort of assumed yourr #1 would be between my top 2, even from the first few minutes of watching. Excellent video. Keep up the good work! Oh.. and fwiw.. My surname is VERY similar to the name 'Howerd.' Can you guess yet why I have spent my life being referred to as Frank or Frankie? Despite my real first name being nothing like that.
Two of my favourites are Matron and Convenience, and I do also enjoy constable, of course camping and loving are both great as is Behind. Spying and regardless I also enjoy.
Cool list. Similar to you, i'm English, i've loved these films for about 40 yeard (i'm 44). My personal favourite top films are: 10 Camping 9 Sergeant 8 Again Doctor 7 Cruising 6 Dick 5 Loving 4 Girls 3 Behind 2 At Your Convenience 1 Abroad
All of the 'Carry On' films were famous for their 'double-entendres' and puns - and some of them were pretty naughty ! My favourite line was from one of the Xmas spin-offs - I think from 1972 - when the cast were singing a spoof carol to Henry V111 - played by Sid James - 'When good King Harry got his Hampton Court '. For the unenlightened - 'Hampton Wick' near to the Palace of Hampton Court is London cockney rhyming slang for 'P**ck' !
Definitely a list for you…. I’ve come across some of those movies as part of my film studies. I’m yet to make a list as I haven’t seen many and I prefer the early movies they had a certain kinda charm. I find a lot of the lines and scenes dated and cringe. From the top of my head my list would be 8 Carry on again Doctor - I like a sequel and I like Jim Dale 7 Carry on Follow that Camel - As an American it’s the first one I ever came across (3 years ago) 6 Carry on Regardless - perfectly written and an insight on the British way of living, compared to us Americans 5 Carry on screaming - I love old black n white scary movies. I think Harry H. Corbett is the movie 4 Carry on Doctor - The greatest movie to watch while sick. The back story’s behind the characters should not be taken laying down 3 Carry on Cleo - The British do these Roman classics better than any one else and that’s “big of me” to say (hint - life of Brian) 2 Carry On... Up The Khyber - The funniest dinner seen I’ve ever scene. Btw what is tiffing ? 1st Carry on Cruising - I would write a whole page on this but I won’t, for me it’s perfection. You have some good comedic scenes/farces tossed about on a ship mixed in with some delightful characters. It even has a believable romance narrative. Just a great heart warming ending to feast upon for those that like their meals unusual. It features the adorable Esma Cannon (1st movie was in 1937) what a great character actor! For me this was when the Franchise were starting to reach its peak and was yet slip down the cringe fest that would appear in the 1970’s. What makes this movie is Sid James and the fear and respect the crew has around him throughout the whole movie it’s my favorite role I’ve seen him in as he plays it almost straight and it works, it just works. And at the end the movie his scenes actually got me a little emotional. So carry on cruising just warms me up the right way and is my number 1 So that’s my list
Very much agree.. Tiffin is lunch or brunch I think, Camel was a very good Phil Silvers movie, I think he worked very well in it, and I've always felt Cruising had a very different feeling about it to the other films, kind of closer to the Doctor films, which were a similar series to the Carry On films, I guess a bit of a rival, and a very different Sid James in the early films, far more serious, great film..
@@thegoodthebadtheuglyshow Do you guys know Phil Silvers? That’s surprising that’s my Grand Pa’s era. I’m not completely up to date with British comedy it’s gonna take more than a retro minute to get thru em. I’ve seen parts of the early ones like the Sargent and The police one can’t remember the name I remember Sid was a straight man in the cop one. I intend to look into the Ealing comedy’s I hear they’re quite smart. I’m hoping they have players like Shirley Eaton and Peter Sellers in them. From what I’ve heard, don’t they do heist style comedy’s Like oceans eleven? On cruising yeah it struck me a a whole different kinda movie - it still has the charm of that post war boom of a nostalgic memory of better times. As we know movies finally starting expressing themselves with a new kinda freedom. (Rock was more exciting than going to church kinda vibes) I seem to take Sid James more serious roles more seriously. Like a Truman show kind of effect. I think it’s the difference in that movie that makes Crusing not really a carry on movie but a great example of what an amazing explosion of film had become. Kenneth Connor performing Bella Marie always makes me think of Under the Mango Tree by Diana Coupland in Dr No also made in 1962. In fact 62 was a great year for film Birdman of Alcatraz, cape fear, Lawrence of Arabia, to kill a mockingbird what a great year and then there’s this sweet little British comedy that prolly got overlooked by the world. Anyways thanks for the reply it’s gd to talk film
@jaymurray6051 Always ready to talk film... Bilko was great, watched it on TV growing up, a great character, also raised on Laurel and Hardy and The Marx Brothers... Definitely worth watching the Ealing comedys, Lavender Hill Mob is a great heist movie with Alec Guinness and I believe Sid James had a small role in that... My personal favourite is The Lady Killers, that film has a perfect charm of it's own, and Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, and Guinness again, make it perfect... Also worth checking out their horror film Dead Of Night from 1945, pretty much the only British horror from that era 👍
I remember a movie called Up Pompey. Had many of the carry on actors in it. Not sure if it was a Carry on move or not, even though it was in the Carry on style
It's actually 'Up Pompeii' starring Frankie Howerd which was released in 1971 and it was a spin-off from the television series in which he played the Roman slave Lurcio as a 'spoof' on historical Roman times. Frankie Howerd did play one of the main characters in Carry On Doctor released in 1967. Pompeii is in Italy and was abandoned as a city when the volcano Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. 'Pompey' is the nickname for Portsmouth, UK - and its football club - and also a famous Roman general who was a contemporary of Julius Caesar.
The one thing that stands out for me in the Carry On films is just what great, but underrated, actors both Peter Butterworth and Bernard Bresslaw were.
PB walking gingerly towards toilet in hospital. PB to Jim Dale:You think it's haemorrhoids,well you're wrong. PB to Peter Gilmore:You think it's a slipped disc,well you're also wrong. JD to PB:Well what then? PB:I thought I was going to break wind....I was wrong.Shuffles off towards lav.Still makes me 😃
I’m not familiar with these. I’m American but have watched a LOT of British film and TV since I was a child. 35 years and I don’t know these films! 0:58 That glass looks hilariously bad! 😂
To be honest I can't do a top 10 because there all brilliant the cast the story telling you can sit down and watch them at any time and still be brought to tears by the carry on crew
Personally, I think the earlier films tend to have stories that hold together better. I would include Sergeant, Nurse, Teacher, Cabby in my top ten. But the best in my opinion is Camping.
I love the Carry on films and will watch most of them. There are three I hate though, Carry on Girls, Carry on England and Carry on Emmanuelle. I don't count Carry on Columbus because they tried their best. My favourite is Carry on Screaming... I do think that they could try to bring them back if they used the cast of Ghosts (also the good Horrible Histories) but not to remake any classy Carry on movies, but another type of comedy. Still love most of them though.
Great Video... I love the Carry on... Movies! I have a boxed set of them on DVD. I even Enjoy the rather poor "Carry on Columbus"... The idea was good, but sadly - Whoever was behind it missed the point of some of the jokes... Such as what woudl have worked better as a Visual Gag was read out by Sandra Dickenson "Cobblers to the Pope?" I dont know what my Top 10 woudl be as I love them all so much...
I can't believe Don't lose your head is not in your top 10 the Sid James and Kenneth Williams clashing characters and wild goose chasing is comedy gold 😅😂its my No1 Carry On film ❤
Up the Khyber is also my no.1 with Cleo as no.2 ❤ Edit: my 3rd is the hospital one where Sid James's gang tries to steal a consignment of the contraceptive pill so Sid coerces his son into disguising himself as a nurse. It also contains my favourite Carry On line, describing Sid James: "his face looks like a relief map of the Himalayas" 😂
Cowboy, Don't Lose Your Head and Follow that Camel are all Top 10 films to me. The reason why sex comedies took over in the 70s was that everyone was watching TV, cinemas were closing and turning into Bingo halls. Sex was the only thing getting punters onto cinema seats in those years.
For me it’d be Behind, Screaming, Matron, Teacher, Constable, Khyber, Dick, Sergeant, Spying and Camping. On the other hand, I find England, Emanuel and Columbus to be almost unwatchable. One thing about the Carry-Ons is that there’s a variety of tunes of movie. Historical comedy ‘epic’, down-to-earth stories with ordinary folks, genre parodies like Spying or Screaming and broad sex comedies like Emanuel. The earlier ones are a very different bag - less ‘end-of-the-pier’ and more like the gentle British comedies of the 1950s. So there’s something there for most tastes. You’re right about Hawtree being fired. He’d had plenty of warnings to stay off the booze. They even tried to work around it by writing him drunken characters in the hope that nobody would realise he was genuinely plastered. Not only was Abroad his last Carry On. It was also Hattie’s last. Apparently here increasing weight issue meant that the studios insurer refused to insure her.
Greatest comedy scene ever written “he’s gone for a P” from Carry On Camping. Makes me howl every time I see it #edit - dammit I knew I should have finished watching before commenting!
Carry On Screaming is amongst my top five favourite films of all times. Fenella was an icon.
She also looked smoking hot in that film. 😛
Nice to see Carry on Cabby get some love. The black and white films tend to get overlooked these days, but Cabby was where the series started to find its own identity away from the influence of the earlier (wonderful) Ealing comedies. Great list, btw. For what it's worth, my top ten would be:
1. Carry on Cowboy
2. Carry on Screaming
3. Carry on Cleo
4. Carry on Up the Khyber
5. Carry on Cabby
6. Carry on Constable
7. Don't Lose Your Head
8. Carry on at Your Convenience
9. Carry on Doctor
10. Carry on Abroad
Excellent list 👍
Much the same as my list. Maybe not in the same order.
Great roundup and I pretty much agree with not only your selection but the order too. I'm surprised you didn't have time to mention that when Harry H. Corbett's character Detective Sgt Sidney Bung and Slobotham going in a cart to get the mannikin from the fashion shop there's the Steptoe Theme worked into the music score at that point. What a nice nod to the role he was most famous for, and a shame he didn't do more Carry Ons
Ahr yes, I should've mentioned that.... That was a great nod!
"Friends! Romans!" and is then interrupted by people who think he's forgotten the rest of the introduction with "Countrymen?", to which Julius replies angrily "I KNOW!!"
I also liked Carry on Teacher. The most incredible line that got past the censors was in Don't Lose Your Head, where Joan Simms, a countess, said, pointing to Charles Hawtrey, "And, my brother, the Count". The Count being pronounced in such an extremely posh accent suggesting a certain 'letter' in Count was missing. Unforgettable. 😂😂 I seem to be the only one who liked Carry on Teacher, Leslie Philips and Miss Allcock! DING DONG! and Constable? Ah well, we all have our favourites.
Ha ha yes, I remember as a kid watching this, thinking it was definitely pretty risky..
I thought it was Terry Scott saying this in Carry on Henry
@@johnhenry7972 HE PROBABLY DID A LOT OF LINE AND NAMES APPEAR IN MORE THAN ONE FILM I REMEMBER TWO FILMS HAVE ERNEST BRAGG( BEHIND AND OF THE HOSPITAL ONES). AND PETER POTTER,( GIRLS AND CAMPING)
My favorites are the early black and white ones with Leslie Howard and the nervous version of Kenneth Connor. Sid James was the straight man, also. "Constable Constable" 🤣
'Teacher' is a favourite of mine too, and I think it's one of the most underrated Carry Ons. All the cast were brilliant, and Leslie Philips was simply hilarious (as he was in Constable).
Brother Belcher:I've never been on a cart pulled by cows.
Capt Keen:Bullocks.
Brother Belcher:It's true,I'm telling you!😅
My granddad's favourite line from a film 😆
My favourite ever Carry On gag!
“Matron,I was once a weak man”
“Once a week is enough for any man”
I think one of the great Carry On lines was from Barbara Windsor in Henry. 'A great honour. The King has done me' when it was supposed to be 'A great honour the king has done me.' Apart from of course Kenneth Williams in Cleo 'Infamy infamy. They've all got it in for me.' And Kenneth Williams again in Screaming ' Frying tonight.'
My Mother used to love the "Carry on" films. As a kid, presumably in the early seventies, my parents took me to see their stage show in London.
Just looked, "Carry On London"! Probably very late '73 for Christmas at the Victoria Palace theatre?
I've always loved the Carry On Films (I'm a child of the 1960's) and take every chance I get to watch them. Unfortunately this isn't as often as I'd like as I don't currently live in the UK. I have however passed on my love of them to my two daughters and would struggle to pick my top ten as I love Khyber, Screaming, Cleo, Doctor and so many of the others!
Screaming
In Carry on Screaming, it's also important to note that this featured an excellent, memorable cameo from Captain Peacock himself, Frank Thornton, as the shop owner whose store is broken into.
'Carry On Up The Khyber' was the best one by far, full of great gags and the cast were brilliant! God Bless them all 😂
Good timing. I picked up the dvd box set super cheap at Christmas, and I’m going through them sequentially. I’m only up to Screaming. Jack and Cabbie I don’t think were technically planned to be Carry On movies, but they got rebadged on release. I agree with your opinion about Cabbie, it’s really charming and has a genuine story.
I personally would have found a place for Spying (rather than Jack)
Great list
My top 10:
1) carry on abroad
2) carry on doctor
3) carry on don’t lose your head
4) carry on camping
5) carry on cabby
6) carry on up the kyber
7) carry on constable
8) carry on matron
9) follow that camel
10) carry on Henry
Quite a good top ten. Although I think I’d always have to find room for Carry On Up The Jungle in my top 10. Great video though. Cheers.
THE BEST LINES IN IT "WHY DO THE GIRAFFES HAVE SUCH LONG NECKS"? "BECAUSE THEIR HEAD IS SO FAR AWAY FROM ITS BODY" AND "THE NOSHERS EAT PEOPLE, VERY BACKWARD", "THERE NOT EATING ME BACKWARD".
@michaelsullivan1631 The only really good line in Columbus - The sharks "would they eat me whole? "I think they spit that bit out"
A very good list, and no glaring omissions. My top 10 would be, 1. Khyber 2. Screaming. 3. Camping. 4. Cabby 5. Cleo. 6. Abroad. 7. Behind (easily my favourite from the mainly poor later entries) 8. Cowboy 9. Teacher. 10. Matron.
Love it. Very well put together and edited
I also have Carry On Admiral in my collection. Also the Gerald Thomas/Peter Rogers comedy films that didn't have the "Carry On" title ("Don't Lose Your Head" and "Follow That Camel" had "Carry On" added to them later) - including "Raising the Wind", "Watch Your Stern", "Twice Round the Daffodils" and "Please Turn Over".
Thank you so much for this.
Took me back to being a kid growing up in the Uk before coming to S.A in '76.
Ive subscribed!
Regards from South Africa
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Excellent! And thank you for subscribing 🙏👍
Loved these growing up in the 1990s. They were always on at the weekend. Usually on ITV. Some of those one liners used to floor me. Charles Hawtrey probably made me laugh the most.
"Ohh hello" Charles was a legend. 🙌
@@WesleyScottOfficial "Not an ounce of a bounce!" 🤣🤣🤣
@dannyspelman1468 Yes, remember Charlie listening to the radio in bed in Carry on Hospital and laughing to himself. Also, people smoking in bed in hospital in the 60s!! True, of course.
One scene that absolutely shocked me as a kid was when a male orderly came up to Leslie Phillips in bed to prepare him for 'down below' surgery. He had a shaving mug and a razor. Leslie said, "Oh, I done need that, I had a shave this morning." The orderly said, "I'm not here to shave your face!" I couldn't believe it.
Great video! I love these films too. My favourites would have to be Don't Lose your Head, Carry on Screaming and Carry on up the Khyber.
“The Duc de Pomme Frites is going to have his chips” Kenneth Williams (Don’t lose your head)
Nice video. Maybe you could do a top 10 worst Carry on Films (Guessing Columbus would be number one).
Good top ten. I watch every year the collection, usually in order too. It does show how subjective personal opinions are as my favourite 2 Carry On's didn't even feature in your top 10. I love the historical type ones, and the 2 I loved the most are Carry On Dick, and my all time fave Carry On Don't Lose Your Head. The black fingernail/Sir Rodney Ffing double personality of Sid James cracks me up all the time, never gets old.
Awsome list. Besides carry on camping, my favourite would probably be carrying on up the jungle. I get why its not the most popular, but i love it.
The guy from Mind your language is Barry Evans and he died in the 90s. There's talk about the mysterious circumstances of his death and on Fb there's an author collecting bits and pieces of information about him to write about him and his death, but it's been a long time coming and I'm wondering if there's any progress on the book. It might be a good topic for a video if you're up for it. I'd always love to watch anything related to Barry Evans
I'll definitely look into this, could make a very interesting video 🤔
Carry on Cowboy? That is in my opinion a fantastic movie.
The Rumpo Kid.... Sheriff P Knutt...Judge Birk. A sanitary inspector cleans up the town?! Brilliant.😃
Definitely in my top 20
That scene of Sid and Joan laughing in Abroad always cracks me up. They're clearly not just laughing for the camera. Cruising is a good one just to see Esma Cannon's dotty old lady
IT IS JOAN SIMS SAME AS IN CARRY ON ENGLAND, WHEN THEY ALL START LAUGHING, SOME OF THEM WERE JUST GIGGLING UNTIL, SHE STARTED THEN THEY GO ONE BY ONE.
As well as the Carry on films, there was also a number of unofficial Carry on films or Carry on adjacent films that didn't have the Carry on title but were produced by Peter Rogers and starring the Carry on cast, such as Watch Your Stern, Raising the Wind, and Twice Round the Daffodils.
awww... Twice Around the Daffodils... That is very high on my list of my favourite films of all time
@@terrymurphy2032 that would be included among what I referred to as unofficial Carry on films or Carry on adjacent films, of which I only gave three examples of those that were produced. I know that there's more but these are just three examples of the series of films.
Hi, just subscribed! Can you offer one on top 10 hammer horror films? Carry on screaming 😂🎥
That's a very good idea, might have to 👍
"Ere, nurse, I dreamed about you last night."
"Did you?"
"Nah, you wouldn't let me."
(Carry On Doctor)
Good video and I hope after watching this people who have not seen the films start watching them . I love the dinner party scene in Up the Khyber , it always makes me laugh . I always think only the British upper classes would sit having a posh meal at a dining table while under attack . The film I really am not keen on at all is Carry on England
YOU HAVE 4 OF MY TOP TEN CABBY (4), CAMPING(5), CLEO (6), ABROAD (7), MY TOP THREE ARE, 1 AT YOUR CONVENIENCE, 2 UP THE JUNGLE, 3 DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD.
MY OTHER THREE ARE, ENGLAND (8), CRUSING (9), BEHIND (10)
I grew up in Africa with English roots. My parents would show Carry On movies to me so I would understand where I came from.
I love the Carry On movies. My father loved them too. Britain at its best!!!
I guess because I love history, I always find myself going for the Western/Tudor/Roman/Khyber Pass films but Carry on Screaming will always be my favourite. But shout-outs for CO Cabby & CO at Your Convenience.
Most of the films are pretty good. Personally I've always had a soft spot for Cruising and Don't Loose Your Head. Rodney Effing, with 2 FFs
Eyyy Carry on Doctor 🤙 I always liked that one. Carry on Camping is probably my favourite - Mr. Muggins is just hilarious "get yer stinkin' carcass out of our bloody tent!". Rewatched Screaming a few months ago and while good, I felt went on a bit and lacked some of the laughs for me (yeah, unpopular opinion). Enjoyed your ranking 👍
The top Ten Carry on films
10. Carry on Constable.
9. Carry on Up the Khyber
8. Carry on Cleo
7. Carry on Nurse
6. Carry on Don’t Lose Your Head
5. Carry on at Your Convenience
4. Carry on Abroad
3. Carry on Cruising
2. Carry on Cabby
1. Carry On Camping
I know most of those, thank you for the recommendations for the rest. 😊 Personally I have a soft spot for Carry on Spying, nonstop nonsense.
The funny thing is, I kinda grew up with those films, too. In the late 80s, for whatever reasons, on of the private broadcasters in Germany used to air these films in their morning programme. And there was enough slapstick in them to entertain me over the holidays. I remember seeing Camping and Doctor back in those days.
Carry on Sergeant starred William Hartnell (Doctor Who #1) while Carry on Screaming had Jon Pertwee (Doctor Who #3)! Frankie Howerd was in a class of his own. Carry on Camping was probably my favorite overall. Peter Butterworth appeared as "possibly" the first incarnation of the Master in an early Doctor Who story during the Hartnell years.
Could make a whole video on the Dr Who connections....
And Bernard Cribbins of course.
Personally I really think that ‘…Behind’ is an overlooked gem, Davis and Douglas really work well together.
Although on screen Roy Castle is only in ‘…up the khyber’ he is on the soundtrack of ‘…Loving’, it’s his quintet in the background of the bar.
Great video, am in total agreement with your choices. Your video popped up on a suggestion by YT. New subscriber now. Good lad.
Excellent, thank you 👍
No Carry On Cowboy or Don’t Lose Your Head? I agree with you re Screaming and Kyber
Or Follow That Camel.' An underrated entry I think. Phil Silvers was brilliant in it. Sergeant Bilko adapted for this film.
@Nooziterp1 I really like Camel, but not in my top 10, I like them all to some degree.. Even the terrible ones 😁
Up the khyber is my favourite too. Love the historical ones best.😂 2. Cleo. 3. Don't lose your head. 4. Henry. 5. Dick. 6. Sergeant. 7. Screaming. 8. Cowboy. 9. Spying. 10. Regardless.
Enjoyed this. Thanks.
I would substitute Convenience for Henry. Otherwise I completely agree with your selections and the order. Really good video.
A great video, very interesting, you obviously love the Carry On films.
Thank you 🙏
My top 10 ‘Carry Ons’ would have been the following:-
Cowboy, Loving, Constable, Spying, Cruising, Cleo, Cabby, Don’t Lose Your Head, At Your Convenience and Screaming, with Cowboy and Loving being numbers 1 and 2. 😂
Carry on don’t lose your head is up there as a favourite. One of the best carry on lines between Sid James and Joan Sims:
“Madam you look an absolute picture…
…trifle overexposed”
Up the Khyber is definitely the best. Carry On Cowboy, Follow That Camel, and Don’t Lose Your Head were excellent too.
Now you see... As someone actually old enough to have watched a Carry On film at the cinema at it's time of release, my own #1 would be your #4.
BUT.. Having said that, my #2 would be your #1. And I sort of assumed yourr #1 would be between my top 2, even from the first few minutes of watching.
Excellent video. Keep up the good work!
Oh.. and fwiw.. My surname is VERY similar to the name 'Howerd.' Can you guess yet why I have spent my life being referred to as Frank or Frankie? Despite my real first name being nothing like that.
Screaming
"We've only got Gas"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Two of my favourites are Matron and Convenience, and I do also enjoy constable, of course camping and loving are both great as is Behind. Spying and regardless I also enjoy.
also in screaming with the hawtry shot there's the screen logo pic on the wall for bless this house starring sid james and hattie jaques... :)
Khyber had to be number 1. I was waiting for it. One of the greatest comedies ever.
Cool list. Similar to you, i'm English, i've loved these films for about 40 yeard (i'm 44). My personal favourite top films are:
10 Camping
9 Sergeant
8 Again Doctor
7 Cruising
6 Dick
5 Loving
4 Girls
3 Behind
2 At Your Convenience
1 Abroad
Surprisingly i love Carry On England, and forgot to include it, that should go at 7th place.
@jonbolton3376 I really liked it as a teenager, especially the extended vhs version 😆
Follow that camel is my favourite, followed by Up the Kyber and then Screaming.👍
khyber....... not kyber
@@chloedevereaux1801 oops my bad. Thanks for correcting me.🙂👍
Follow that camel is in my list of worst. But that is mainly because I don’t like Phil silvers.
YEAH, I THINK YOU'RE PRETTY MUCH RIGHT ABOUT ALL OF THAT!
All of the 'Carry On' films were famous for their 'double-entendres' and puns - and some of them were pretty naughty !
My favourite line was from one of the Xmas spin-offs - I think from 1972 - when the cast were singing a spoof carol to Henry V111 - played by Sid James - 'When good King Harry got his Hampton Court '.
For the unenlightened - 'Hampton Wick' near to the Palace of Hampton Court is London cockney rhyming slang for 'P**ck' !
Not far from there, in Sunbury, there's a block of flats called Prince Albert Court, which sounds even more painful.
Definitely a list for you…. I’ve come across some of those movies as part of my film studies. I’m yet to make a list as I haven’t seen many and I prefer the early movies they had a certain kinda charm. I find a lot of the lines and scenes dated and cringe. From the top of my head my list would be
8 Carry on again Doctor - I like a sequel and I like Jim Dale
7 Carry on Follow that Camel - As an American it’s the first one I ever came across (3 years ago)
6 Carry on Regardless - perfectly written and an insight on the British way of living, compared to us Americans
5 Carry on screaming - I love old black n white scary movies. I think Harry H. Corbett is the movie
4 Carry on Doctor - The greatest movie to watch while sick. The back story’s behind the characters should not be taken laying down
3 Carry on Cleo - The British do these Roman classics better than any one else and that’s “big of me” to say (hint - life of Brian)
2 Carry On... Up The Khyber - The funniest dinner seen I’ve ever scene. Btw what is tiffing ?
1st Carry on Cruising - I would write a whole page on this but I won’t, for me it’s perfection.
You have some good comedic scenes/farces tossed about on a ship mixed in with some delightful characters. It even has a believable romance narrative. Just a great heart warming ending to feast upon for those that like their meals unusual. It features the adorable Esma Cannon (1st movie was in 1937) what a great character actor!
For me this was when the Franchise were starting to reach its peak and was yet slip down the cringe fest that would appear in the 1970’s.
What makes this movie is Sid James and the fear and respect the crew has around him throughout the whole movie it’s my favorite role I’ve seen him in as he plays it almost straight and it works, it just works. And at the end the movie his scenes actually got me a little emotional. So carry on cruising just warms me up the right way and is my number 1
So that’s my list
Very much agree.. Tiffin is lunch or brunch I think, Camel was a very good Phil Silvers movie, I think he worked very well in it, and I've always felt Cruising had a very different feeling about it to the other films, kind of closer to the Doctor films, which were a similar series to the Carry On films, I guess a bit of a rival, and a very different Sid James in the early films, far more serious, great film..
@@thegoodthebadtheuglyshow Do you guys know Phil Silvers? That’s surprising that’s my Grand Pa’s era. I’m not completely up to date with British comedy it’s gonna take more than a retro minute to get thru em. I’ve seen parts of the early ones like the Sargent and The police one can’t remember the name I remember Sid was a straight man in the cop one. I intend to look into the Ealing comedy’s I hear they’re quite smart. I’m hoping they have players like Shirley Eaton and Peter Sellers in them. From what I’ve heard, don’t they do heist style comedy’s Like oceans eleven? On cruising yeah it struck me a a whole different kinda movie - it still has the charm of that post war boom of a nostalgic memory of better times. As we know movies finally starting expressing themselves with a new kinda freedom. (Rock was more exciting than going to church kinda vibes) I seem to take Sid James more serious roles more seriously. Like a Truman show kind of effect. I think it’s the difference in that movie that makes Crusing not really a carry on movie but a great example of what an amazing explosion of film had become. Kenneth Connor performing Bella Marie always makes me think of Under the Mango Tree by Diana Coupland in Dr No also made in 1962. In fact 62 was a great year for film Birdman of Alcatraz, cape fear, Lawrence of Arabia, to kill a mockingbird what a great year and then there’s this sweet little British comedy that prolly got overlooked by the world. Anyways thanks for the reply it’s gd to talk film
@jaymurray6051 Always ready to talk film... Bilko was great, watched it on TV growing up, a great character, also raised on Laurel and Hardy and The Marx Brothers... Definitely worth watching the Ealing comedys, Lavender Hill Mob is a great heist movie with Alec Guinness and I believe Sid James had a small role in that... My personal favourite is The Lady Killers, that film has a perfect charm of it's own, and Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, and Guinness again, make it perfect... Also worth checking out their horror film Dead Of Night from 1945, pretty much the only British horror from that era 👍
I remember a movie called Up Pompey. Had many of the carry on actors in it. Not sure if it was a Carry on move or not, even though it was in the Carry on style
That was great, it's a spin off from a tv series, also definitely worth checking out 👍
It's actually 'Up Pompeii' starring Frankie Howerd which was released in 1971 and it was a spin-off from the television series in which he played the Roman slave Lurcio as a 'spoof' on historical Roman times. Frankie Howerd did play one of the main characters in Carry On Doctor released in 1967.
Pompeii is in Italy and was abandoned as a city when the volcano Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.
'Pompey' is the nickname for Portsmouth, UK - and its football club - and also a famous Roman general who was a contemporary of Julius Caesar.
The one thing that stands out for me in the Carry On films is just what great, but underrated, actors both Peter Butterworth and Bernard Bresslaw were.
PB walking gingerly towards toilet in hospital.
PB to Jim Dale:You think it's haemorrhoids,well you're wrong.
PB to Peter Gilmore:You think it's a slipped disc,well you're also wrong.
JD to PB:Well what then?
PB:I thought I was going to break wind....I was wrong.Shuffles off towards lav.Still makes me 😃
I’m not familiar with these. I’m American but have watched a LOT of British film and TV since I was a child. 35 years and I don’t know these films! 0:58 That glass looks hilariously bad! 😂
I recommend binging them all 😁
A small fact for you, Bernard Bresslaw was in a film called hawk the slayer
If you havnt seen it ,its a great film
I have it, been meaning to watch it for a while, now I know Bernard Bresslaw is in it, I'll check it out soon 👍
@@thegoodthebadtheuglyshow your welcome,he plays a big man called gort,its epic and sad
To be honest I can't do a top 10 because there all brilliant the cast the story telling you can sit down and watch them at any time and still be brought to tears by the carry on crew
So glad you got Khyber as number one, there's no other choice really.
Favourite was camping followed by convenience then jungle. Worst was follow that camel, Emmanuel, up the Khyber and Columbus
Very entertiaing thanks, might go and watch one now.
Khyber, Screaming, Cleo, Cabby, and most of the black and white doctors and nurses.
Personally, I think the earlier films tend to have stories that hold together better. I would include Sergeant, Nurse, Teacher, Cabby in my top ten. But the best in my opinion is Camping.
Don't lose your head Carry On Dick are fun, but Kyber is Premier League to the best of the others being League 1.
Exactly, the others can Fakir off!
Most of the Carry On films were great - I still love 'Carry On - Don't Lose Your Head'
I love the Carry on films and will watch most of them. There are three I hate though, Carry on Girls, Carry on England and Carry on Emmanuelle. I don't count Carry on Columbus because they tried their best. My favourite is Carry on Screaming...
I do think that they could try to bring them back if they used the cast of Ghosts (also the good Horrible Histories) but not to remake any classy Carry on movies, but another type of comedy. Still love most of them though.
Gathering clues in carry on screaming. Peter Butterworth and Harry H Corbett come up with "foul feet smell.....something horrible! "
I only watch those WITHOUT Barbara Windsor.
Well Kenneth Williams as the Khasi is sublime, but Hattie Jacques steals the show as the matron in Carry on Camping.
A good top 10 ✔️
Love all the Carry On movies except Emmanuel and Columbus.
'Don't Lose Your Head' and 'Carry on Spying' are up there with the best!
carry on cleo,camping,spying,screaming
Love the carry on films I have a carry on Sunday every Sunday
IN UP THE JUNGLE, IT WAS YEARS BEFORE I HEARD HIM SAY ABOUT THE WINDSCREEN VIPER LINE, I SOMEHOW NEVER HEARD HIM RIGHT.
Great Video... I love the Carry on... Movies! I have a boxed set of them on DVD.
I even Enjoy the rather poor "Carry on Columbus"... The idea was good, but sadly - Whoever was behind it missed the point of some of the jokes... Such as what woudl have worked better as a Visual Gag was read out by Sandra Dickenson "Cobblers to the Pope?"
I dont know what my Top 10 woudl be as I love them all so much...
I adore your videos. Hope you make many more.
Thank you 🙏 that really means a lot x
It's there? At 10:50!
I can't believe Don't lose your head is not in your top 10 the Sid James and Kenneth Williams clashing characters and wild goose chasing is comedy gold 😅😂its my No1 Carry On film ❤
It's always a tough call, it's definitely interchangeable with Jack on certain days...
Up the Khyber is also my no.1 with Cleo as no.2 ❤
Edit: my 3rd is the hospital one where Sid James's gang tries to steal a consignment of the contraceptive pill so Sid coerces his son into disguising himself as a nurse. It also contains my favourite Carry On line, describing Sid James: "his face looks like a relief map of the Himalayas" 😂
Carry on Screaming was my favorite I could watch it again an again
1.Girls. 2. Camping. 3.Jack. then any from Henry, Screaming, Jungle, Kyber.....
Peter Butterworth was a war hero. Look him up.
I would’ve put carry on up the jungle in there somewhere and carry on don’t lose your head. But yeah, I think you pick some of the best.
I need to watch Jungle again as it's been a while.. I'd definitely put Don't lose your head at 11 or 12.
Carry on Colombus '92 was the final nail!
Cowboy, Don't Lose Your Head and Follow that Camel are all Top 10 films to me. The reason why sex comedies took over in the 70s was that everyone was watching TV, cinemas were closing and turning into Bingo halls. Sex was the only thing getting punters onto cinema seats in those years.
That makes a lot of sense 😁
did think the very rarely shown carry on Cowboy. there is always something in each one that was funny.
For me it’d be Behind, Screaming, Matron, Teacher, Constable, Khyber, Dick, Sergeant, Spying and Camping. On the other hand, I find England, Emanuel and Columbus to be almost unwatchable.
One thing about the Carry-Ons is that there’s a variety of tunes of movie. Historical comedy ‘epic’, down-to-earth stories with ordinary folks, genre parodies like Spying or Screaming and broad sex comedies like Emanuel. The earlier ones are a very different bag - less ‘end-of-the-pier’ and more like the gentle British comedies of the 1950s. So there’s something there for most tastes.
You’re right about Hawtree being fired. He’d had plenty of warnings to stay off the booze. They even tried to work around it by writing him drunken characters in the hope that nobody would realise he was genuinely plastered. Not only was Abroad his last Carry On. It was also Hattie’s last. Apparently here increasing weight issue meant that the studios insurer refused to insure her.
I thought that was right about Hawtree, but I think Dick was Hattie's last👍
@@thegoodthebadtheuglyshow Yes, you’re right. Dick did come after Abroad.
Greatest comedy scene ever written “he’s gone for a P” from Carry On Camping. Makes me howl every time I see it
#edit - dammit I knew I should have finished watching before commenting!
My top 5 is 1 don’t lose ur head 2 Cleo 3 screaming 4 jungle 5 doctor
1. Carry On Screaming
2. Carry On Doctor
3. Carry On Cleo
4. Carry On Cowboy.
Carry On Cleo will always be my favourite. 👍
Brilliant video. I hated carry on Columbus. The only funny thing about it was the wording on the actual trailer "up your end from Friday" !
The early Carry On films were probably better written than the more popular Rank ones.