Spurred on by the comments by the beloved Asley in the “Look at the t!ts on this” thread, what is your favourite line or character name from a Carry On film?
Lets start with the Duc de Pommfrit and Citizen Camembert (“The Big Cheese”) from Carry On, Don’t Lose your Head and Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond from Carry On Up the Khyber.
Favourite line? Obviously “Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me” has to appear, but I rather like the dismissal of the Fakhir in “Up the Khyber”: “Fakhir – off”.
All rather harmless double entendres from a different era……….
By: Guzzineil - 22nd July 2005 at 21:41
“oooow Matron”.. 😀
I think Khyber, Cleo and Camping are my favorites! but also the early B&W ones for different reasons, especially Cabby…
Neil
By: Arm Waver - 22nd July 2005 at 14:50
From ‘Carry on abroad’ something on the lines of:
Sid James “Drink?”
June Whitfield “I tried it once and didn’t like it.”
Sid James “Smoke?”
June Whitfield “I tried it once and didn’t like it. Our daughter’s the same.”
Sid Aames “Only child?”
By: Arabella-Cox - 22nd July 2005 at 14:05
Well, it just wouldn’t be allowed nowadays would it?
🙂
Sadly not, more’s the pity. 🙁
Coincidentally, got home last night to find that we’ve been handed a dvd copy of Carry on Camping, which came from one of Julie’s mum’s weekend papers recently. Might have to stick that on tonight. 😀
By: hurricanebird - 22nd July 2005 at 13:51
Stand corrected…it’s been a while since I have seen it to be honest. But lines like that do stay with you don’t they? 😀
Another one sprang to mind in one of the doctor Carry Ons – where Peter Gilmore, (playing the lecherous ambulance driver), sees Barbara Windsor, (the pretty young nurse), walking along eating some fruit and he says ‘Oh! What a lovely pear!’ (Barbara Windsor being a tad gifted in the chest area!) 😀
Well, it just wouldn’t be allowed nowadays would it?
🙂
By: Auster Fan - 21st July 2005 at 19:54
Yeah! It’s true, it’s true!
Nah Jonesy! The best line is…
‘Infamy! Infamy! They’ve all got it in for me!’ Kenneth Williams (again) – ‘Carry on Caesar’, I believe!
Hysterical!🙂
Carry on Cleo, which used the set from “Cleopatra”, one of the most expensive film flops in history, I believe.
By: Kansan - 21st July 2005 at 17:37
Spurred on by the comments by the beloved Asley in the “Look at the t!ts on this” thread, what is your favourite line or character name from a Carry On film?
From “Carry On Screaming”
Harry H. Corbett and Fenella Fielding discuss a body part:
Det Sgt. Bung: This ear was found in Slocombe woods.
Valeria: What. This ear?
Det Sgt. Bung: Yes, that there
This one was odd because a lot of the carry-on regulars seemed to be missing.
I also liked Peter Gilmore (later of the Onedin Line) as the lecherous ambulance driver in one of the B+W medical ones, I forget which.
R/K
By: danohagan - 21st July 2005 at 17:13
Can’t beat a good Carry On film. Camping is my favourite of the series. Bernard Bresslaw and Sid James are two of my all-time heroes!
By: hurricanebird - 21st July 2005 at 17:01
Jim Dale–“It’s just behind that cart pulled by cows”
Bernard Breslau-“Bullocks Sir”
Jim Dale–“No it is, honestly”.‘Carry on up the Khyber’ I think.
Have you also noticed that the Kenneth Williams character in that was ‘The Khazi’ and the president of Afghanistan is called Khazi.
Whenever he appears on the news my wife (big Carry On fan) shouts “It’s the Khazi”
Such is life in the Jones household.
Cheers
Andy
Yeah! It’s true, it’s true!
Nah Jonesy! The best line is…
‘Infamy! Infamy! They’ve all got it in for me!’ Kenneth Williams (again) – ‘Carry on Caesar’, I believe!
Hysterical!
🙂
By: Andy in Beds - 21st July 2005 at 00:01
Jim Dale–“It’s just behind that cart pulled by cows”
Bernard Breslau-“Bullocks Sir”
Jim Dale–“No it is, honestly”.
‘Carry on up the Khyber’ I think.
Have you also noticed that the Kenneth Williams character in that was ‘The Khazi’ and the president of Afghanistan is called Khazi.
Whenever he appears on the news my wife (big Carry On fan) shouts “It’s the Khazi”
Such is life in the Jones household.
Cheers
Andy
By: Auster Fan - 20th July 2005 at 19:08
You’ve never watched a Carry On film? ~Faints~
The Carry On series ran from the late 50s to late 70s (I refuse to include 1992’s Carry On Columbus here) They were renowned for their very British sense of humour – double entrendes, seaside postcard like sauciness, familiar British cast, running gags, and visual and verbal humour without resorting to pure slapstick. The films made household names of the likes of Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques, Sid James, Barbara Windsor, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtry, Joan Sims and Kenneth Connor to name just a few, and were seriously big box office hits in their time.
By today’s standards some would deem them inmature and tame, but at the time, they set a whole new standard in comedy film making. Probably the best films to sample the Carry On series are Carry On Camping, Carry On Up The Khyber, and Carry On Doctor. Ian and Steve, any further suggestions (still thinking about Ian’s original questions here)
Never watched Columbus and don’t intend to. My personal favourites for awful puns are Carry on Cleo, Up the Khyber and Don’t Lose your Head. Personally I think the later ones are crap (eg England, At Your Convenience etc which were very tired IMHO). The early ones continued the tradition of the Ealing Comedies, of which I am a huge fan and of which I have most on video from the days when they were shown regularly on TV. Have seven of the first eight Carry On films on tape, including Cruising which was the first one in colour.
By: Ashley - 20th July 2005 at 16:07
You’ve never watched a Carry On film? ~Faints~
The Carry On series ran from the late 50s to late 70s (I refuse to include 1992’s Carry On Columbus here) They were renowned for their very British sense of humour – double entrendes, seaside postcard like sauciness, familiar British cast, running gags, and visual and verbal humour without resorting to pure slapstick. The films made household names of the likes of Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques, Sid James, Barbara Windsor, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtry, Joan Sims and Kenneth Connor to name just a few, and were seriously big box office hits in their time.
By today’s standards some would deem them inmature and tame, but at the time, they set a whole new standard in comedy film making. Probably the best films to sample the Carry On series are Carry On Camping, Carry On Up The Khyber, and Carry On Doctor. Ian and Steve, any further suggestions (still thinking about Ian’s original questions here)
By: DME - 20th July 2005 at 15:58
That’s a new Carry On film to me DME…
I’ve never watched the Carry on Films…… any good
dme
By: Ashley - 20th July 2005 at 13:52
That’s a new Carry On film to me DME…
By: DME - 20th July 2005 at 13:30
We can’t stop here. This is bat country! Johnny Depp playing Hunter s Thompson is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
dme
By: Arabella-Cox - 20th July 2005 at 12:13
None of the lines spring to mind at the moment, but all of the late Sid James’s characters used to have me in stitches. Still do. It’s that dirty-old-man laugh that does it for me… 🙂
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