Carry On polling!

Possibly not.

Suzanne D came in as a last minute replacement for Babs Windsor who walked out on the film complaining of the "filthy script." Sid wouldn't have been in it, having died two years earlier.

A Carry On movie that was too filthy even for Barbara Windsor?

http://shinymedia.headshift.com/images/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/19/barbarawindsorcarryon.jpg

She was fine with titillation, apparently, but not with what she considered "porn."

I haven't seen Em, the only one I haven't, I believe.

"Carry On England" is possibly the worst film ever made.

"Seargant, why are those men wearing skirts?" (K.Connor)
"That is cause they is not women, sah!" (W.Davies)
"Oh? What are they then?"
"Women, sah"

.. is the only funny line in it.

Carry on Dick is the last one that's any good.

What was Carry on Behind? I forget.

I haven't really properly watched a Carry On since I was a kid. I liked the historical ones best then.

(xpost) similar to Camping - it's at a campsite, but KW is an archaeologist.

Cleo's got the best Sid James, the best Kenneth Williams and severe Cleopatra hottness.
http://archives.festivaldufilm-dinard.com/13/images_films/CARRY_ON_CLEO.jpg

Okay not the best pic.

^^^ Barbara Windsor was going to be Cleo but fell out with the producers - would have been a different film, and probably not as good.

They're all quite good up till "Follow That Camel"

but this comes before Khyber!

"Behind" has Elke Sommer, doesn't it?

Got there.

^^^ Barbara Windsor was going to be Cleo but fell out with the producers - would have been a different film, and probably not as good.

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and then my sister would have been called Barbara, possibly.

"Spying" is very good, it has that whole "early Bond" piss take nailed down. Pity it's not shown on TV very often.

I voted for Khyber for the great scene with the unflappable brits eating dinner while their mansion gets blown up around them.

but this comes before Khyber!

I didn't say there weren't good films after, but certainly they were less consistently good.

It was between Screaming, Spying, Dick and Khyber.

"Spying" is very good, it has that whole "early Bond" piss take nailed down. Pity it's not shown on TV very often.

"Spying" has been on a lot! It's a bit silly. So's "Jack". Maybe something to do with Bernard Cribbens?

Cabby, Cleo, Cowboy, Screaming, Khyber are prob'ly my faves.

Of the early ones, I like Constable and Regardless.

Cabby was filmed at the bottom of our road when we lived in Windsor.

Not while we lived there, unfortunately. Arthur Road, road fans.

It's a bit silly.

As opposed to what??

"I prefer the earlier, more serious Carry On films"

Mark G, the other good line from Carry On England is when Windsor Davies asks Patrick Mower (something along the lines of) whether he knows anything about German planes. "No, but I know a Fokker when I see one"

"I prefer the earlier, more serious Carry On films"

But they are more serious!

You would have thought that someone starting a Carry On film poll would have at least a nodding familiarity with all the films listed.

Why do you think I started the poll in the first place??

Convenience for the win!

ah whatever

Cleo! Cleo!

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"Mark G, the other good line from Carry On England is when Windsor Davies asks Patrick Mower (something along the lines of) whether he knows anything about German planes. "No, but I know a Fokker when I see one""

That's one of its good lines? I could build a fleet of Fokkers and fly one round the world in the time between that line being telegraphed and it being delivered.

Not may of them stand a second viewing but Don't Lose Your Head and Up The Jungle were both good for a giggle in parts.

I'm voting for Jack on the grounds that Charles Hawtrey delirious at sea was the funniest thing in the world when I was 10. I don't think I've ever seen it since.

Give me Convenience or give me death. Everything about that movie is perfect. You can stick predictable winner Khyber right up yr khyber.

Kyhber? I thought Cleo was the canonical choice.

Cleo is a sight better than Khyber but neither contain

a) a budgie that can pick horses
b) lazy Trade Union zings a-go-go
c) CHARLES HAWTREY STRIP POKER
d) bogs
e) staff piss-up
f) genuinely touching unrequited Sid James/Joan Sims/Selwyn Froggitt love triangle

Screaming is fucking shit an' all.

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A poor turnout.

Honestly fuck all y'all

i missed this thread but i was going to vote for khyber anyway

Only 17 voted, very poor.

That's one of its good lines? I could build a fleet of Fokkers and fly one round the world in the time between that line being telegraphed and it being delivered.

Find me a Carry On joke that isn't telegraphed. The gags are so contrived, and that is part of the entertainment.

I find I enjoy some of the jokes in the way I enjoy an old trusted recipe. "But, but, it is I, Camembert... the Big Cheese!" is not subtle or unexpected but it is beautifully delivered and gets to me every time.

Carry On Up The Khyber starting on Film4 in 10 minutes, UKers.

Would've picked Cleo had I seen this poll.
I have fond memories of watching Carry On Girls in my younger years. Would like to see that again. They always show the same ones on TV, don't they? Dick, Khyber, Camping. They should wheel the more obscure ones out.

Cruising was on earlier this afternoon on ITV, and that doesn't seem to get shown often. I think I've only seen Sergeant on TV once.

http://www.culttv.net/images/Jack_Douglas.jpg

Pour one out

"Don't Lose Your Head" was just on. Seemed to have a much higher budget than usual, it looked pretty good, especially the parts with the guillotine and the mob. Definitely funny, though a couple of the sequences are far too long. No Kenneth Connor, no Babs Windsor and Jim Dale is wasted as Sid James' sidekick but Joan Sims is fantastic and Kenneth Williams is on good form. By the way, Kenneth Williams would have made a great Robespierre in something if someone had thought of casting him in the role (Robespierre actually is in the film but played by Peter Gilmore, who is far too rugged and imposing).

was everyone voting sarcastically in this or something?

People refusing to take Carry On films seriously >:(

I have the box set and will review them all once that seems like a good idea (perhaps never)

I was right 12 years ago and am still right