Miscellaneous

In 1958 a British institution was born with the release of the first in a long series of comedy films. ‘Carry On Cabby’ was the seventh in the series. Regulars Sid James, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Connor and Charles Hawtrey are all present. Liz Fraser makes her third appearance and Esma Cannon makes her fourth and…

In 1958 a British institution was born with the release of the first in a long series of comedy films. ‘Carry On Cruising’ was the sixth in the series. It was the first to be filmed in colour and saw the return of many of the regular team, Sid James, Kenneth Connor and Kenneth Williams.…

In September 1958 a British institution was born with the release of the first in  a series of comedy films.  ‘Carry On Regardless’ was the fifth in the series. By now a fairly regular team was established with Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims and Kenneth Williams all having appeared in previous entries.…

‘Carry On Constable’ was the fourth in the series which was slowly building its ‘team’ of regulars, Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, and Hattie Jacques. Sid James makes his debut in the series in this one, while early regulars Eric Barker, and Shirley Eaton also turn up. Leslie Phillips makes his last…

Some younger UK readers and most of our foreign visitors are probably unfamiliar with this film magazine and as I’m using it for reference and using whole pages to illustrate posts, I feel that it’s time to take a short look at this long running periodical.   It was originally tied in with ABC Cinemas, and…

CARRY ON TEACHER: 1959 In September 1958 a new British institution was born with the release of a series of comedy films. ‘Carry On Teacher’ was the third in the series, it featured Ted Ray in his only Carry On role, there’s also a young Richard O’Sullivan appearing as a pupil. Ted Ray’s name on…

In September 1958 a new British institution was born with the release of the first of a series of comedy films. ‘Carry On Nurse’ was the second in the series, but despite it being the UKs most successful film of that year it didn’t receive a page to itself in the ABC Film Review, just…

It wasn’t their lack of persuasion from United Artists that caused the absence of a selection of this Chaplinesque characters antics in the Derann sales catalogues, no this ‘Pink Pests’ name was constantly brought into every conversation we had with our contact at UA, (head of TV sales… as they didn’t have a 16mm/8mm sales…

CARRY ON SERGEANT: 1958 In September 1958 a new British institution was born with the release of the first of a new comedy film series. ‘Carry On Sergeant’ was the UKs third most successful film of that year and the series would continue into the 1990s. There was some talk of a revival just a…