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TOP 10 BEST CARRY ON FILMS (and BOTTOM TEN)
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2024
- Here is my count up (and count down) of the very best and worst of the Carry On films.
This is a personal list ... what do you think?
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Contents (Spoilers!)
00:00 Intro
00:50 Don't Lose Your Head (1967)
01:16 Carry On at Your Convenience (1971)
01:50 Carry On Cabby (1963)
02:12 Carry On Nurse (1959)
02:33 Carry On Spying (1964)
03:10 Carry On Doctor (1967)
03:58 Carry On Camping (1969)
04:51 Carry On Cowboy (1965)
05:38 A quick plug for another video!
05:49 Carry On Cleo (1964)
06:33 Carry On Screaming! (1966)
07:14 The Middle Ground
07:38 Carry On Jack (1964)
08:05 Carry On Up the Jungle (1970)
08:38 Carry On Matron (1972)
09:01 Carry On Loving (1970)
09:40 Carry On Dick (1974)
10:00 Carry On Henry (1971)
10:21 Carry On Behind (1975)
10:40 Carry On England (1976)
11:00 Carry On Emmannuelle (1978)
11:16 Carry On Columbus (1992)
11:29 Outro
Shakey titles for some reason, and I've spelt Emmannuelle wrong, I think. Never mind. I'll upload it as it is!
Carry On Up The Khyber is definitely the best. That scene near the end when they are all sat around the dinner table while the building is falling apart and explosions going off all around is hilarious.
It is a great scene. If I'd done this ranking a few years ago, I think it would have been higher.
My personal favourite.
Strawberry Mousse, Strawberry Mousse!
Oh dear I seem to have got a little plastered!
@@oliverbeheganI was just going to comment that! 🧁🤣🤣
I will never in my life be able to hear the words "Do you mind if I smoke?" Without picturing Fenella Fielding disappear into a dry ice cloud, She was a vamp in more ways than one. She would have had no trouble turning me to the dark side!
I met Fenellla Fielding in 2016, she was in her late 80s and still amazing!
Somehow that doesn't surprise me.
The music to Carry on Screaming is fantastic as well
My favourite Carry On anecdote comes from Michael Caine. He went out to visit Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in the south of France, and was surprised to hear them watching a film and laughing hard. The film was Carry On Cleo!
That's fantastic. Love it!
Richard Burton and Kenneth Williams had worked together years earlier in the theatre, which probably added to Burton's enjoyment. It's well known that the Cleo sets at Pinewood had originally been intended for Cleopatra, which moved to Italy because of the bad British weather.
“I’ve used a ranking engine”
*Ooh, Matron!*
😂
I'm so happy to see "Convenience" in someone else's favourites - I've been using it for years to try to show EFL students a little of what the 1970s were like - along with Steptoe and Life on Mars.
It's a really good example. I used it in a similar way a few weeks ago.
Nothing wrong with At Your Convenience, it's my second favourite, after Abroad.
Carry On At Your Convenience is my fave Carry On Film. I always vow to not watch it again, but end up watching anyway.
Spot the continuity error looking out of the coach window.
I love the exterior shots of Convenience and Girls where they filmed in Brighton. I have to go there at least four times a year and I love reminiscing as I walk along the promenade and look at the remains of the west pier that appeared in both movies.
I'm going to have to find that error now!
Solid ranking of one of my favourite film series. Totally with you on no.1, Screaming is a superb Hammer pastiche with Harry H.Corbett brilliantly filling Sid´s shoes. I´d personally have Khyber in my top ten and I have a soft spot for Abroad as it contains my favourite Carry-On joke: ´I tried it once and didn´t like it´. Priceless.....
I love that line! Superbly delivered :)
“Your only child, I presume?”
@@ndameteffer4335 Plus Sid´s laugh. Just sublime.
Just discovered your channel and subscribed.
I watched these films as a boy in the 70s as my parents and grandparents loved them.
As I’ve gotten older they have appealed to me more as they always bring back memories of family laughing at Sid, Barbara and the gang on a Sunday afternoon.
I’m sure you have read them but if not I do recommend Kenneth Williams diaries a v interesting read 👍
Thank you for subscribing. I've been after a copy of Kenneth Williams diaries for a while. I think it's out of print,.
You crammed such a lot into a very small space. I love it! 😂
😁
Ooh matron!
A nice summary of the varying quality of these classics. Enjoyed it.
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers!
Whoever cast Kenneth Williams and Elke Sommer together as a somewhat unlikely but wonderful double act has my eternal gratitude!!
they are a highlight of the film!
@@Doctor_Random they are THE highlight of the film
Carry on up the khyber really should be in the top 5
So many votes in the comments of Khyber, which I can understand to be honest... it's just at this moment it's not up there for me
Can't believe COUTK is 17th!
My favourite is "Carry on Sergeant", the very first. Because it was the first, they weren't sure what to do so they included more drama and better storylines, rather than just 90 minutes of comedy. I always watch it when it comes back on the TV.
It is a good one.
Guilty pleasure for me is Carry On Girls about 11pm around Christmas and New Year, with a pickled egg, a tub of Quality Street and a bottle of sherry! 🤣
Fantastic. I think a nice pickled egg at Christmas.
Yes pleased to see it at number 11 comfortably above the other similar films of the 70s. It exudes warmth. A good list overall except that Khyber is far too low.
No turkey sandwich?
Great list. Must say, I love the adventure driven Carry Ons of the mid to late 60s. As well as being tremendously funny they even have genuinely exciting stories too. Plus I think the earlier, more gentle late 50s/early 60s films deserve a lot more attention. They're clearly heavily inspired by the Ealing films, but they hold up very well and you can see all the elements that later made the series so special starting to develop.
Agreed. The early films are also quite gentle.
I would put Carry on up the Khyber much higher. That dinner party set piece is perfect.
I can see that, I think I've fallen out with Up The Khyber for some reason. I was surprised it sat so low after ranking, however.
Yeah, plus I love Fakir, off! Almost as good as My Brother, the count! in don’t loose your head. Lord and Lady ruff diamond, Bung dit din, brother belcher, Private Widdle, the devils in skirts! Characters that are so much better than in cowboy and screaming combined.
Number 1 or 2 for me 🤔
Carry on loving is so underrated and not mentioned much it's easily the top 10 with jungle.
It does really work for me. Although Sid and Hattie are great in it.
I also think it`s underrated. `Loving`, `Camping` and `Convenience` contain for me some of the very best incidental music in the entire series.
you're right, loving has great music
It's my favourite, though I must admit only because of Imogen Hassell and Jacki Piper. Women have never been better than in the late 60s and early 70s; long hair and short skirts.
Loving to me was just a rehash of Regardless without the solid humour. It's by no means awful, but I wouldn't make it top ten. Never really rates Jungle either, I can name 20 carry on movies I'd watch before I watched it.
Great video. Ranking engine is a good idea, one v one. I tried looking at the entire list and the scope is just too big to make a meaningful list.
Are the black and white ones in a higher resolution or is that just what black and white does? The black and white ones seem so incredibly crisp compared to colour, I suppose colour film was a new technology at that time and I've heard that black and white was often shot under intense light.
Cheers! Using a ranking engine often gives surprising results and I like that.
Yep, the black and white are in higher definition :)
Carry on Screaming, just brilliant. Do you mind if I smoke? Frying tonight! Great lines.
An excellent film!
I've owned the boxset of all the Carry on's for a few years now. My top 5 are Carry on Screaming, Carry on camping, Carry on Henry, Carry on don't lose your head and Carry on Up the Khyber.
Good list!
For me ? Top 3
1. Behind
2. Dick
3. Screaming
I always think the best time to watch any of these precious gems is that time between Xmas and the New year, round about 10 pm..😊
It is indeed. I seem to remember the BBC put some of these on at 6pm weekdays BBC2
Your top ten certainly has some carry on classics. Totally agree with your bottom ten. I would have put Carry On Abroad a bit higher up. Peter Butterworth was great in that. Yes Carry On Columbus was diabolical! Thanks for posting 😂👍
cheers ! lot's of votes for Abroad
Hey buddy, a great choice as your top 10, I also love C O At Your Convenience, from the hilarious scene in the canteen during the Union Meeting and then obviously their Brighton seaside shenanigans and I really thought the talking budgie who can predict the racing results was a brilliant touch too, and I still love watching it. C O Screaming is my all time favourite right there at the No 1 spot, it's so brilliant and even the sets ( particularly in the early colour movies ) were so epic, the casting is top notch and even though we don't have Sid James we have the brilliant Harry H. Corbett who unfortunately didn't do any more but no matter how stressful my day at work has been, I put that movie on and I'm instantly transported to a much happier place and that movie works on so many levels, Peter Butterworth is a brilliant & hilarious sidekick to Harry H. Corbett I really can't fault it..well perhaps it could have been a bit longer ( no pun intended ), but everyone has their own choices, there is no wrong or right. I did try to watch C O Emmanuelle some years ago after I'd bought the boxset but after about 15 mins I couldn't watch anymore, it was so sad to see how a once brilliant film series had rapidly disintegrated to tragic film, and as not to tarnish my memories and thoughts of the films that I still love to watch, I thought it was wise to not watch anymore, and the least said about C O Columbus ......the better. Despite the later movies not matching up to the classics, there are plenty of the Carry On's to enjoy and what a fantastic playlist to choose from!! I would recommend buying the complete boxset of the series so you can watch the films from start to finish without annoying commercial breaks or those stupid cuts in the films that a certain tv channel keep editing out ( yes ITV 3 I've called you out ) as they seem to feel that certain shots showing small glimpses of naked flesh inappropriate, but what the idiots don't realise is by cutting out those funny parts they're actually killing the punchline in the gags. To a novice who is just discovering these films they won't know what they've missed but to the fans of the series we know exactly what lines come next and where the funny gags and visuals are. P C gone mad, if some find these movies "inappropriate " then there really is no hope for them. It's just innocent humour, yes it is outdated and at times sexist but it is humour very much of it's time. Quite frankly anyone who finds the Carry Ons offensive and their "sensitivities hurt" are the sort of people who get offended at anything & everything.
thank you for the awesome comment ... I think carry on films and the actors need much more credit than they get these days.
Great comment. Totally agree with you as regards ITV3. They do that with the On The Buses movies, too. I don't bother watching them on that platform now as it just irritates me.
Here in Germany there was only a small selection of the Carry On movies on TV, but this selection comes close to your top 10. Except "Carry On Screaming", which wasn't on TV here, as far as I remember. Most Carry On films I saw much later when we were able to receive ITV, which was about 2005 or so.
I've often wondered where else Carry On was exported. Just a selection, interesting...
@@Doctor_RandomIn Germany the titles started with "Ist ja irre...", which translates to "It's crazy..."
That's fantastic ... I'm going to take a look at the titles in other languages now !
Great video, i agree with you on all of them
Thank you :)
Screaming is certainly the best, for me carry on was at its strongest when it parodied cinema genres, Cowboy, Spying and Cleo being other great examples of this
I can't argue with that. Those parodies were great
Placing Carry On Up The Khyber at number 17 is totally mystifying and rather undermines your entire listing.
I've kind of fallen out of love with that film. Years ago I loved it, but when I've been revisiting the films I found I started to see merits in the others. Where it stood in the final ranking did surprise me. I suppose it comes through the process of racking one film against the other multiple times. On a different day I do wonder if it would have changed. I'll probably do the ranking in a years time and see what comes out.
I’ve got sore misgivings. You wanna to put some talcum powder on em…bwahahahah. 😂
ruclips.net/user/shortsEbucatUeN6M great scene!
Many of the “carry on” movies were quite corny but still watchable for their silliness. Carry on camping is a prime example.
absolutely, on both counts :)
Completely agree with your bottom three.
Lol, carry on up the jungle is my personal favourite 😆 though i haven't seen all of them yet
I totally agree with your bottom ten. The top ten I would reorder slightly. To be honest, I don't really have a top favourite, but my top four are:
Again, Doctor (the one with the slimming potion) It's a great story that is one of the most character-driven of all the Carry Ons. Spying, - again, it's a great story that was driven by the characters rather than the joke.
Cabby (again, it's because they put the story before jokes)
Carry On Screaming (same reason as before)
Cleo, Crusing, Kyber, Camel and Don't lose your head are just outside my top four.
After that, the really old ones: Teacher, Constable, Nurse, Sergeant, Regardless
By the 1970s, the films started to be more about competing with the Confession of films and so had almost no story. Carry On Girls and Abroad were probably the best of these. Camping is also in there. By the mid 70s, it was in freefall towards Emmanuel and England. Carry On Columbus isn't even a Carry On film, in my opinion.
I pretty much absolutely agree with everything you say :). I was surprised Again Doctor sat in the middle ground in my ranking.
Really enjoyed your video
I guess i was more of a later Carry On fan. Abroad has always been my favourite followed closely by At Your Convenience. I thought Behind was brilliant because it proved that without Sid, it could still work
Glad you enjoyed it! Lots of votes for those films in the comments!
Great exercise. Nicely presented. Like lots of others surprised at the ranking on Khyber. I would have thought if you asked 50 random people with a knowledge of Carry On this would have been top 3 if not outright winner. Maybe as an aficionado you are too close (?) - familiarity breeds contempt and all that (although I’m sure Sid James would have said familiarity breeds attempt 😂)
Cheers. Yep Khyber was the big surprise for me. I didn't expect it to drop down so far.
Interesting list, and if I don't exactly agree with all your rankings, I think I would be pretty close. Apart from one I fundamentally disagree with! And yes, as others have suggested, it is Carry On Up The Khyber. Maybe not top for everyone, but certainly in the top three - to have it as no 17 is surely a mistake? Do watch it again, there is so much to love about this film.
yep, Khyber must be wrong .. I am rewatching for the upcoming 'peoples' choice video' :)
So happy to see Convenience up there where it belongs. There are some genius moments in that one and it came out the year I was born!
I love Khyber too and that would be in my top 10.
I don't like Spying and think it's really hammy. Kenneth Williams is actually bad in this. I would replace Spying with Khyber. Your number 1 is a great film.
I also think the list of bad ones is really good too. The smutty and cheap efforts from 1973 onwards are pretty poor.
I'm now a subscriber and liked this video very much.
It's interesting in the early films like spying that actors are still trying to find their feet
Are there not 31(including Carry On Columbus)? I brought them on dvd, and there were 30. Except Columbus(which I had too buy on its own) Have you missed one?
:)
I have to admit I didn't realise how many were made ! After watching your video, I am glad I didn't ❤ apart that i loved ❤
:)
Shocked that they never did a carry on casino. So many innuendos for us at work 😅
So many ...
Ha yes! Might not have been quite as strong as Casino innuendo wise but I think `Bus driver/Conductor` would have worked well as a Carry On film.
My top ten...
1. Again Doctor
2. Cleo
3. Camping
4. Girls
5. Convenience
6. Don't lose your head
7. Screaming
8. Abroad
9. Cabby
10. Loving
A great top ten :)
Thank you👍
Carry on Matron is saved for me by the gorgeous Ania Harris in a nurses uniform!!! OOH Matron!!!
love Anita Harris!
She wasn't in Carry On Matron. She was in Carry on Doctor and Carry On Follow That Camel.
I think you mean Carry on Doctor. You are right about Anita Harris though. She's one reason I'd have Follow that Camel in my top 10.
Generally fine. but if you do more 2 suggestions. Fix your voice over volume as i can either hear you and the sound from the films deafen me or the sound from the films is fine and i cant hear a word you are saying. and the second suggestion is if you say you dont want to give any spoilers DONT say what happens and then start to show it too that is giving spoilers
Ok cheers
I was very happy to see Convenience represented in a positive as it's my favourite of all the films and I actually LOVE columbus, sorry just always liked it, i remember Maureen Lipman wanted the film to go into room 101, but I think it's wonderful, I remember I saw a snippet of the movie the part where Rik Mayall says NEXT and I rented it and was so disappointed he's only at the beginning. it was nice to see Martin Clunes and I thought Sarah Crowe was tremendous, I can appreciate it's not the traditional cast only a few stragglers , you have Jim Dale..as for Convenience always loved it. GREAT VIDEO.
I really struggle with Columbus
@@Doctor_Random to be fair, ANY film or TV episode with the legendary Rik Mayall in it can't be all bad 🙂
Carry on Screaming ❤my personal favourite as well .
it's so good!
The top 10 is down to personal choice. Personally I love the very early ones like Sergeant, Constable, Teacher and Cabby. I'm a retired London cabbie so that is definitely a favourite of mine. I've no argument about the bottom ten at all. At least Emmanuelle and Columbus are never repeated on TV they were absolutely embarrassingly awful. They really only qualify as Carry On's because of the producers Rogers and Thomas. I've always found it ironic that actors like Sayle, Richardson, Mayall etc, being at the time "alternative" comedians played their part in killing off people like Benny Hill, Jim Davidson, Dick Emery and Bernard Manning claiming they were sexist, racist, homophobic misogynistic and dated yet look how many of those so called "right on" actors couldn't wait to sign up for a Carry On movie. Hypocrisy anyone?
The comedians look a little embarrassed to be in Columbus ... well that's my reading anyway. I really love the black and white Hudis films, it was interesting that the ranking engine placed them where it did. I wonder if it would be a different result on a different day.
Jim Dale must of been on the breadline to accept the role in Columbus. Fantastic actor. I agree with you on screaming, definately frying tonight!
the whole Columbus thing is a mess - I wonder if they realised that as they were making it.
Jim Dale did it because the blonde female lead in the film was his son's fiancee.
I'm sure he knew it was terrible as he was making it.
The only redeeming thing to do with the film was it showed the hypocrisy of some of the "alternative comedy" lot that targeted the films, Benny Hill etc for being sexist. But they did the film. At least Ben Elton admitted the chance to be in something that is a British film institution isn't something you get a chance to do very often.
I agree with Carry on Screaming, it’s a shame we didn’t see more of Harry H Corbett in the carry on films, he did an amazing job.
he was great ... but Sid James in the role is my 'what if?'
I'd have put Emanuelle last, then Columbus. The first for me is Cleo.
I have a family connection to Carry on Camping. My mum in law, Iseult Richardson, is in the opening sequence, the lady with the tray. Sadly she passed away a few months ago.
What a great connection to something so precious. A link to our much better past.
A lovely connection :)
I watched Carry On Columbus last year and found out it was as bad as its reputation. It looked like it had been made by people who hadn't seen a Carry On film but had had one described to them ... by people who hadn't seen a Carry On film but had had one described to them
So true!
I love Convenience and Carry on Behind, Elke Sommer is great in it. I also love Carry on Loving , and Carry on Dick too.
Elke Sommer is great, but I think Behind struggles compared to others. Convenience is very good. I love the works outing sequence.
I think I'm gonna have to buy that DVD box set of the Carry Ons. I've waited for years for them to release a Blu-ray box set, but only a few of the films have had hi-def transfers. The elements must be in shocking shape, but the franchise doesn't have the international appeal to justify expenditure of a full restoration. Watched "Columbus" the other day for the first time in years and it was even worse than I remembered. "Emmanuelle" is pretty grim, too. I remember liking Carry On England, but I don't know how I would feel about it now...
Sod it! I've just ordered that DVD box set. 😁
Excellent,! :)
Great work. Screaming is a worthy number one. I always liked Spying very much. Surprised that Khyber is not in the top ten.
I was surprised when the rankings came out.
Good for you. Some unexpected choices in both charts. But Screaming is definitely in the right place 😊
Cheers!
I'd definitely have Khyber at the top, ngtheir are parts of it that belong in a historical register of British comedy. Screaming and Spying definitely deserve more love than they often get, so glad to see them up there. I agreed whole heartedly with your bottom 10, though I'd have probably had Henry as the least worst of your bottom 10 just for the sequence with Charles Hawtrey and his constant excitement at the different tortures. Loving was just a rehash of Regardless without the soul.
Good list.....apart from Up the Khyber, no way is that middle ground!
You're not alone in thinking that :)
Surprised to see Carry On Up The Khber so far down your ranking. Once appeared a top 100 best films of all time list (granted it was number 100!). In your top and bottom 10, Carry On Jack would be in my top 10 and Carry On Spying would be in my bottom 10. Have never been able to pinpoint why, but I’ve never liked Carry On Spying or Carry On Regardless. In both these films I completely lose interest by the halfway point. Thoroughly enjoyed this video btw.
Thank you, I think (from the comments) people either love or hate Spying. Also, (again from the comments) you're not alone in thinking Khyber should be in the top ten :)
One thing I’ve learned here is that there are enough of these films to warrant a top ten AND bottom ten and not count all of them. I never knew…
So many 😂
There should be at least fifteen in the top ten.
Good choices. My top 5 are
1 at your covenience
2 abroad
3 behind
4 cowboy
5 up the Khyber
If I possessed the skills, I'd love to make a "top ten" of Carry-On cameo performances as I do think these can make all the difference to how we perceive the movie. for instance, Cowboy is a mid-table entry for me but is elevated 2 or 3 places simply because Jon Pertwee's brief cameo as the Sheriff is so hilarious (and I firmly believe Mel Brooks used Cowboy as the basis for Blazing Saddles). Screaming is at #2 in my all-time list rather than #3 simply because of Odd Bod Junior and his wee chat with Dr.Watt! Cleo doesn't really feature a notable cameo, so it sits at #3. Anyway, just a random thought!
Ohh ... there's an idea .. Carry On Cameos
Your bottom 3 I agree with 100%!!
It has to be!
Behind was saved by Elke, she made me laugh. It is time for knocking it off ...
30. Jack
29. Follow that Camel
28. Regardless
27. England
26. Don't Lose Your Head
25. Constable
24. Up the Jungle
23. Cruising
22. Spying
21. Cowboy
20. Matron
19. Sergeant
18. Emmannuelle
17. Screaming!
16. Columbus
15. Loving
14. Dick
13. Teacher
12. Nurse
11. Again Doctor
10. Cabby
9. Doctor
8. Henry
7. Camping
6. At Your Convenience
5. Girls
4. Cleo
🥉 Up the Khyber
🥈 Behind
🥇 Abroad
Interesting list. The lowest I've ever seen Jack, and the highest I've ever seen Columbus :)
Carry On At Your Convenience was titled Carry On Round the Bend in some markets. Canada and the USA used that title.
I once saw a poster with that title on ...I wonder how well it did in the US and Canada
@@Doctor_Random Did not do well in Canada. Probably because of the title.
Whatever happened to Carry on Composing? It's not listed anywhere.
:)
I agree with all you said I much prefer the earlier softer if you like Carry on films.
Absolutely love Convenience! Agree with Screaming at Number 1 for sure. And totally agree with the bottom two - dreadful films
Convenience is great, I was surprised it ended up so low
A good list. Lots of agreements. The 2 worst rankings for me are Up The Khyber and Abroad, that are top 10 at least.
Yep, lots of agreement in the comments for those :) :/
I am a huge carry on fan as when I was younger they were my favourite films and living in Windsor I am close to a lot of the filming locations. Would tend to disagree with your choice but it’s a personal thing. When I was younger the hysterical histories were my favourite along with the original black-and-white but as I have got older my favourite films have changed. won’t bother with giving you a top 10 but my top three in no particular order are carry on loving, carry on behind and carry on camping. I think it’s because there are some iconic scenes in them and they were all filmed in and around Windsor especially carry on loving where a couple of the shots are only a matter of 100 yards from where I live. Also carry on behind has one of my favourite jokes in it where Kenneth Williams and Elke Sommers were discussing the brothel they had discovered. Williams said would they build it that far away from the camp? Elke replies, it’s not so far to walk to which William says yes but it’s a long way to walk back. Sadly there is talk that the Windsor and Maidenhead council offices which were the hospital in carry on doctor and nurse films and also appeared in Carry on behind may be re developed.
Nice top three!
It'll be a shame if the redevelop that classic location
Great video
For me, Convenience and Screaming are the best. As for Columbus, I think trying to reboot it they didn’t make as obvious innuendo but wow, looking back such a fantastic cast, shame the script wasn’t the best.
Cheers! It was indeed a fantastic cast for Columbus. Such as waste.
Columbus is not good but still better than Emmanuelle in my opinion
Oh Hello!
I'm very surprised that Carry on up the Kyber didn't make the top 10. To me it's one of the best. I first saw it aged 7 in 1974 in the village hall where a cinematographic enthusiast from the village showed a film every Friday night to the locals. Where he got the reels from I don't know. I recall watching The Sound of Music, Goldfinger, The Italian Job, Oliver and other classics around the same time at that venue. Years and years later my own son said to me ''Dad I saw a film last night called Carry on up the Kyber. It was hilarious.''
So many votes for Khyber :)
Hard to disagree with most of that. I think I’d put Up The Khyber higher than 17th, but that’s about it.
Actually I might put Convenience higher than ninth. It’s a rather patchy film, but the best bits are truly brilliant. You rightly highlight the Brighton sequence, but the pathos of James and Sims on their adjacent garden paths is really moving and Hattie and the budgie is worthy of Harold Pinter 😊. Patsy Rowlands is ace as well.
all very true ... on a different day perhaps the ranks would have changed
I always liked Carry On Abroad but i have to agree the early ones were a lot better, they tried to drag the format on for too long without the original team and trying to revive it was never going to work, as you said it became too reliant on smut, there was always innuendo but it really worked in the original films as it was all part of the story, i was never fond of most of the historical ones, i much prefer the everyday life ones with usually working class characters you could relate to, Screaming was always a good one and i still say the famous catchphrase, "Frying Tonight!"
All true :)
Carry On Up The Khyber is my #1 and I have have a fondness for Carry On Sergeant otherwise I like your top 10.
Khyber certainly seems to be the people's favourite!
I agree with your bottom three. The early Hudis films are of a more gentle and sentimental humour but I do like them and would place them higher. I also have a soft spot for Abroad but didn't like it when I first watched the film and Peter Butterworth is great in it. Camping gets my vote above Screaming and like you, for some reason Khyber isn't in my top ten. The demise of the quality of Carry on's is matched by the Hammer films which also tried to lure punters in by becoming more 'sexy'. All this did in my opinion was made them lose their charm.
I think Peter Butterworth needs more recognition, he's great!
"Cabbie" is my favourite. "Camping", "Cruising", "Sergeant" & "Constable" are up near the top too. I agree about "England", "Behind" and "Columbus" being "a load of old pony" as Harry H Corbett's most famous character might say.
The black and white Hudis films are very good.
Hard to rank because i've loved thse films since i was about 5 in the mid 80s. I know my top few and bottom few, but my personal ranking at this today (it could be a bit different on another day):
30 Columbus
29 Emmanuelle
28 Jack
27 Henry
26 Up The Khyber
25 Up The Jungle
24 Follow That Camel
23 Constable
22 Cleo
21 Nurse
20 Teacher
19 Spying
18 Cowboy
17 Regardless
16 Screaming
15 Cabby
14 Matron
13 Don't Lose Your Head
12 Doctor
11 Again Doctor
10 Sergeant
9 Camping
8 Cruising
7 Dick
6 England
5 Loving
4 Girls
3 Behind
2 At Your Convenience
1 Abroad
Interesting! Lots of differences there. I suspect if I'd used the ranking engine on a different day, I might have got a different result.
I'd much rather watch Carry On Columbus again, if only for the 'buried treasure' scene, than ever get round to watching the second two thirds of Carry On England.
Good point
I often question myself with this a lot, I like Screaming and Spying but not a lot of the regulars are in it yet the writing and sets etc are so good but when I watch Constable where more regulars are featured, it's on my bottom 10. If there was one unmade film I'd wish they made would be Carry On Robin.
For me I think if I ran the comparison a different day, I'd have a bit of a different result
My top 3 (At Your Convenience, Cleo and Screaming) never really changes. At Your Convenience I'd have at #1 just because it is, as you say, great fun. It never lets up and there's so many story threads entwined to hold it together. And that scene with Sid and Joan where they realise "it could never be" is really quite touching. I'm surprised you have Henry so low as Sid is terrific in this one and so is Kenneth. I suppose the ending is a bit tame. One I was always less keen on was Camping and I could never put my finger on quite why. Likewise Spying which seems to be lacking any character. We certainly agree on the poorest three but so does just about everyone else! My claim to fame is assisting Joan Sims out of Harrods with all her shopping one day long, long ago. I could see she was struggling and I offered to help. I said to her "are you...?" and before I could get her name out, she gave me a wink and said "yes, luv!". Tickled me pink, did that!
A great top 3, and a lovely Joan Sims memory :)
Interesting choices.
There are definitely differences between the black and white films and the colour films.
The latter ones really laid into the double entendre which was the prevalent humour of the 70s with things like Benny Hill, Are you being served etc. on TV.
The black and white films were closer to the other comedies of the time. Norman Wisdom and the Ealing comedies.
I would swap Up the Jungle with either Carry on Girls or Carry on Cruising.
I think you got the bottom three right.
The series was on it's way out. Tastes had changed and they were stuck in a timewarp.
They were trying to do innuendo whilst films like the Robin Askwith confession films and similar had nudity and more obvious se*ual jokes.
Carry on Columbus should never have been made.
1992 was post The Young Ones, The Comic Strip, French and Saunders etc.
The only people who may have gone to see that film in the cinema were people in their 40s or older.
Cheers. I can't disagree with any of that. :)
No way... they're exactly my top 3 as well!!
Excellent!
Camping is maybe an obvious choice, and perhaps too predictable for some. But there’s a good reason for it. It’s just such an enjoyable film. I know I’m in a minority on this, but I’m not a great lover of Cleo. For me it’s greatest boon is the visual impact of the borrowed sets an costumes, but other than that it doesn’t get me excited. It’s not a bad film, but not in my top 10.
Funnily enough I quite enjoy Henry, Dick and Convenience.
But I definitely agree on Loving, England and Emmanuel being in the bottom 3. I’ve watched every other Carry On at least a dozen times - Camping at least once a year for the last 30 years. But I watched England once when it was on telly in the 80s, and once when I brought the DVD box set and forced myself to. Loving is one that I’ve only seen once because I hated it so much. And Emmanuel - well, I know how much Kenneth Williams hated doing it and Incan see why Barbara’s Windsor walked out quite early on. I watched the first twenty minutes and felt so embarrassed on the casts behalf that I couldn’t take it any more. It’s the only Carry On that I’ve never seen all the way through.
There’s a reason why Emmanuel doesn’t feel like a Carry On. It’s because it isn’t. It was a new writer, Lance Parkin. He had written a sex-comedy novel and couldn’t get a publisher interested in it, so he approached Rogers and Thomas with a proposal to use his story for a Carry On, to which they agreed. With the Carry-On association he was able to get a book deal so that it was published in tandem with the film coming out. But it wasn’t originally intended to be a Carry On when he first wrote it. Incidentally, the book is even worse than the film. It’s more sexually explicit. Total pulp.
In its own way Columbus is ok-ish. Not a great film, and not really a Carry On. If it didn’t have the Carry On title it may not be so widely loathed - although it still wouldn’t be particularly fondly remembered! I saw an interview with Jack Douglas who really hates Columbus. He said he doesn’t even regard it as a Carry On - and he was in it! I think the problem was that it was miscast. Using the alternative comedians of the day, whose style was so far removed from the spirit of Carry On, was a mistake. The film was probably better off not being made.
I didn't know that much about the background Emmanuel ... it all starts to make sense.
Only one i really dissagre with here is jungle, its one i always watch woth my dad, frankie howards character is so well played and his line delivery is ace
Carry on screaming not only the best carry on movie ever made actually could be one of the best movies ever it’s that good.
So true!
Your bottom 10 is crazy !!! Henry, Dick Matron & Jungle??? And Khyber 17 & Abroad 18 What !!!!!!!!! Just Wow
The ranking engine made me do it ;)
In Carry On Matron I always wondered what was to be gained by stealing contraceptive pills.
it's an odd idea isn't it.
Can't believe you put 'jack' in the bottom set, it's brilliant, look at the cast, production values, they used the set of HMS Defiant, it's a good story, would it help if you removed 'carry on' from the title?
as I would regard is a-typical, my fav s ; film buff head on 'Cleo', but just for John Clive and David Kernan 'Abroad', it's also the last time we see the original team all together.
I like Jack, it just didn't get up there. :)
Seven of my favourites are in your lower ten.
oooh, which ones?
@@Doctor_Random All of them bar Carry On Jack, Carry On England and Carry On Emmanuelle
I loved the carry on films… my number one has to be cruising, followed by Cleo, Abroad…. As a teenager I would sit and watched Carry on Cruising over and over again, I even went through the film second by second writing out the lines, I wanted a script! I could recite most of the lines! carry on Cleo Markus et specious…😂
I did the same with Carry On Cowboy!
Carry On Up The Kyber is my personal favourite. The last film in the series I saw was Carry On Henry and by then the charm had been lost. And the original crew were being replaced.
You can really feel it when the original crew start dropping off ...
@@Doctor_Random Yes. the heart and soul of the series just was not there in the last 6 or 7 films.
Best: 1.Khyber, 2. Doctor, 3. Screaming, 4.Doctor Again, 5. Camping, 6. Jungle, 7. Cleo, 8. Cowboy, 9. Cabby, 10. Behind. Worst: 1. England, 2. Emmannuelle, 3: Columbus. They are the only ones I really dislike. The first five hadn't really developed the carry on formula and the mid seventies ones were trying to copy the confessions films too much and had lost the winning formula. The peak was in the second half of the sixties. Jack was funny with Captain Fearless and Behind with Professor Crump and miss Booshka. So basically Kenneth Williams saving the show. Jungle had Mr Boozy and Hawtrey as the King. So I sort of disagree on those ones. The best also seemed to mostly feature Jim Dale. Although having a guest star made a good carry on too. Obviously losing Talbot Rothwell also hastened the franchises decline as well.
great list!
Strange the way his problem with Loving was not enough of the main cast, it had Sid, Kenneth, Charlie,
Hattie, Bernie, peter and Joan with the exception of Jim, Kenny Connor and Babs I thought that WAS the whole team...He didnt see that problem with Carry on Jack which had only Kenneth and Charlie in (and an odd cameo from Jim who's part clearly should've been the Bernard Cribbins role) it's like all the parts were re cast with none Carry on stars it's so blatantly obvious who was supposed to play who, Juliet mills is clearly playing Babs part.
How many Carry on films were there? In total…?
I say 30 because I don't count That's Carry On. 31 if you do.
@@Doctor_Random For a foreign European this is uncharted territory 🤪
:)
Top 3 for me are Don't Lose Your Head, Screaming and the (IMO) vastly underrates Abroad
Agree with most of the bottom end - Columbus would be there abouts too
Good top three, I'm beginning to think Abroad is underrated
I accurately guessed your worst three in the right order. Columbus had the most amazing cast and yet was the biggest dud.
Agreed .. I often wonder when they realised that they had a dud on their hands ...
The very first one I watched was Khyber. So it holds a special place for me. I would put that at No.2 for me. I agree with your number 1 and your last ten. Emmanuelle and Columbus were awful except I quite enjoyed Carry On Dick.
Carry On Screaming is a definite number 1 for me too.
it's a classic!
It's very subjective because the films appeal to humour individually. For myself, my top three would be Screaming, Don't Lose Your Head and Khyber - made at the very peak of production, when the success of the earlier films brought in a big budget. The sets are lavish, the casts are large with lot sof extras, great costumes and clever, engaging story lines. At the end of it;s time the series in in obvious decline, with titles like Convenience or England; some of the key stars are missing, the plots are thin and rely much more on toilet humour and farce than the more subtle inuendo. I also rate Cleo and Abroad highly. Cleo because Kenneth Williams is still at the top of his game "Infamy, infamy...they've all got in in for me!" and Abroad where Butterworth does a great job playng multiple roles, and June Whitfield gets a great line "I tried it once, I didn't like it"
So true. It's interesting what comes out when you rank the films by comparing would you rather watch x or y. I reckon in a year's time, I'll do it again and see what comes out.
Why didn't you mention Up the Khyber?
When I compared the films side by side, Khyber ended up in the middle ground. It seems though, according to the comments, Khyber might be the most popular. :/
Pretty decent lists. For me though CO Behind would be in my top 5. Very underrated in my own opinion. It was my favourite along with CO screaming. The bottom 3 are just awful, with CO England being the only one I could ‘comfortably’ watch if given a choice from them.
Looking through the comments I think I need to rewatch Carry On Behind.
@@Doctor_Random the beauty is, there are so many Carry Ons for us to enjoy 😊
@@Doctor_RandomBehind is my favourite of them all, even without Sid! The opening “Swampy regions” lecture is utter genius, and Prof Vooska and her “Weenus” doesn’t get any better. Behind for me is the tops.