Carry On - The Ultimate Collection [DVD]

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Morris Bright and Robert Ross (2000). The Lost Carry Ons: Scenes That Never Made it to the Screen. Virgin Books. ISBN 1-85227-990-7. A 50-minute television documentary, What's a Carry On?, was made in 1998 for the 40th anniversary of the first film. It included archive clips, out-takes and interviews with surviving cast members. It was included as an extra on the DVD release of Carry On Emmannuelle. The Carry On series is a long-running British sequence of comedy films, stage shows and television programmes produced between 1958 and 1992. Distributed by Anglo-Amalgamated from 1958 to 1966, and the Rank Organisation from 1967 to 1978, the films were all made at Pinewood Studios. [1] The series' humour relied largely on innuendo and double entendre. [2] There were thirty-one films, four TV Christmas specials, one television series of thirteen episodes, and three West End and provincial stage plays, [3] all made on time and to a strict budget. [4] The sexual aspect in these films, as per my previous review, is more aimed at promoting matrimonial sexual relations. Where you see nurses parading in underwear by the end of the film the male and female leads fall in love with one another, or reaffirm their passions and emotions. That verse the Benny Hill films and TV show which pushed the level of sexuality and sexually oriented jokes a few degrees higher. Webber, Richard (2005). The Complete A–Z of Everything Carry On. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-718223-6.

Worldwide first on Blu-ray! Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and Charlie Bind, aided and abetted by the comely Agent Honeybutt and Agent Crump, battle against the evil powers of international bad guys STENCH and their three cronies. Bright, Morris; Ross, Robert (2000). Mr Carry On– The Life & Work of Peter Rogers. London: BBC Books. ISBN 978-0-563-55183-6. White, Jim (17 March 2008). "A British comedy classic that could carry on". London: Telegraph.co.uk . Retrieved 12 December 2010. [ dead link] Carry On Down Under was considered when, while on holiday in Australia, Gerald Thomas scouted locations and spoke to the Australian Film Commission about a potential film. The production was abandoned when finance fell through, and a complete script written by Vince Powell is included in the book Fifty Years of Carry On. Begin your journey through the annals of Britain’s longest-running comedy film series with this 4-disc Blu-ray set featuring the first 4 films of the uproarious franchise – in high-definition for the first time worldwide. Carry On Sergeant (1958)Snelgrove, Kevin (2008). The Official Carry On Facts, Figures and Statistics. Norfolk: Apex Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-906358-09-9.

A film had appeared in 1957 under the title Carry On Admiral; although this was a comedy in similar vein (and even featured Joan Sims in the cast) it has no connection to the Carry On series itself. The much earlier 1937 film Carry On London is also unrelated (though it coincidentally starred future Carry On performer Eric Barker). Carry On Escaping (1973), scripted by Talbot Rothwell, a spoof of World War II escape films. The complete script is included in the book The Complete A–Z of Everything Carry On.Rogers and Thomas were responsible for all 31 films, usually on time and to a strict budget, and often employed the same crew — some of whom were also regulars on the James Bond series, such as Peter Lamont, Alan Hume, and Anthony Waye. Between 1958 and 1992, the series employed seven writers, most often Norman Hudis (1958–1962) and Talbot Rothwell (1963–1974). Anglo Amalgamated Film Distributors Ltd produced 12 films (1958–1966), the Rank Organisation made 18 (1966–1978), while United International Pictures produced one (1992). The films are spoofs of James Bond, Hollywood epic Cleopatra, American Westerns, and Hammer horror films, respectively. The Carry On film series has had numerous individual releases on VHS, and a number of VHSs were released in an eighteen VHS box-set on 1 September 2003. [28] Like a lot of humor or so-called "comedies" from the 50s and 60s what little humor there is in films of the time comes more from the actors' attitudes in delivering lines than any actual humor line or gag. Not true with films prior to the 50s, so which means there was an attitudinal shift that took the funny stuff out of comedies.

Hunter, I. Q.; Porter, Laraine (2012). British Comedy Cinema. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-66667-1. The 2003 DVD logo depicting some of the actors from the series: from left to right; Bernard Bresslaw, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Sid James, Hattie Jacques, Jim Dale, Barbara Windsor and Charles HawtreyCarry On Smoking (1961), revolving around a fire station and various attempts to train a bungling group of new recruits. Bright, Morris; Ross, Robert (2000). Mr Carry On – The Life & Work of Peter Rogers. London: BBC Books. ISBN 978-0-563-55183-6.