1000 Carry On Film Facts (eBook)

Brian Carver (Autor)

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2024 | 1. Auflage
118 Seiten
epubli (Verlag)
978-3-8187-0032-4 (ISBN)

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The Carry On film comedy series is much loved. With its broad British humour and regular cast members, the Carry Ons were very successful. The films had a low budget, and went through slightly different styles from 1958 to 1992. Some of the films are considered to be among the greatest British films ever made, especially in the comedy genre. This book of 1000 Carry Facts has trivia on every aspect of the Carry Ons - from the cast, production crew, locations, unmade Carry Ons, anecdotes, behind the scenes stories, the production of the films and much more. Hopefully you will learn something new about this wonderful film (and television!) series.

I enjoy writing about popular culture.

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He also appeared in two episodes of the Carry On Laughing TV series.


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Kenneth Connor's son Jeremy plays his character Bernie's son in Carry On Nurse. Jeremy only said his lines when the director Gerald Thomas promised him sweets.


386

In Carry On Abroad Jimmy Logan falls into some wet cement. In reality the cement was grey coloured porridge.


387

Carry On Up the Jungle was going to be called Carry On Tarzan. "Tarzan" was owned by the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs who created the character and it did not let the Carry On producers use the character name.


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Carry On Screaming! is the longest Carry On film at 98 minutes.


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Kenneth Connor never watched his own performances; but he watched Carry On Nurse as his son Jeremy was in it.


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Frankie Howerd and Kenneth Connor had an argument in a stage show before the filming of Carry On Up The Jungle. The producers had to ensure they got on during filming of the Carry On film.


391

In Carry On Nurse, the Colonel (Wilfred Hyde White) stick an L plate on Stella's (Joan Sims) back; it disappears in the next shot.


392

Norman Hudis admitted he was struggling to write the Carry Ons, starting with Carry On Regardless. The next film, Carry On Cruising, was his last. Later his successor as scriptwriter Talbot Rothwell suffered from nervous exhaustion writing his last Carry On, Carry On Dick.


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The title Carry On Holiday was considered for Carry On Cruising.


394

Upper Dencher church in Carry On Dick has a First World War memorial outside.


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Billy Cornelius appears in eight Carry Ons: Carry On Screaming, Carry On Again Doctor, Carry On Henry, Carry On Dick, Carry On Cowboy, Carry On Girls and Carry On Don't Lose Your Head.

He also appeared in the 1970 Carry On Stuffing Christmas TV special, and three episodes on the Carry On Laughing TV series.


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Sid James was appearing in the pantomime Babes in the Wood at the London Palladium until June 1966. He was not available for Carry On Screaming! which was filmed in January and February 1966. Harry H. Corbett replaced James.


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Edward Scaife was the cinematographer for Carry On Constable. He was unavailable for the next film Carry On Regardless as he a had a job in Turkey. Producer Peter Rogers only had a few days to find a replacement. He asked Alan Hume, the director of photography, to do the role. Hume did so, and went to become the regular Carry On cinematographer for fourteen films.


398

In the BBC television sitcom, Taxi! Sid James plays London cabby Sid Stone - a similar character to the one he plays in Cabby On Cabby. Taxi! ran from 1963-64.


399

At some cinemas showing Carry On Screaming, you could but Kreepy Kwivers rubberised monster toys, for the price of 12/6; this is 12 shillings and 6 pence. About £5 in 2024 prices.


400

Harry Secombe was considered for the part of Henry VIII in Carry On Henry. Originally it was planned for Henry to sing madrigals, and Secombe was a tenor.


401

Patsy Rowlands said that when several guests visited the set of Carry On Matron, Kenneth Williams mooned at them.


402

The voice of Doctor Crow in Carry On Spying is provided by John Bluthal. Bluthal plays Corporal Clotski in Carry On Follow That Camel.


403

Lance Percival said there were technical problems with the exploding chef scene in Carry On Cruising:

"They were trying to get the cake to blow up in my face. It was done with a pressure pump underneath with the cake mixture sitting on top of an air pipe. When they pressed a button, the mixture was to shoot all over my face. However, every time I leaned over to 'smell the aroma' just before it exploded, I blinked as it actually shot up i.e. I knew it was coming! Therefore, it took nine takes to get a scene that lasts ten seconds - unheard of in a Carry On".


404

Both the BBC and ITV in the UK had their own popular television shows made up of clips from the Carry On films in the 1980s.

Thames Television produced Carry On Laughing (reusing the title of the 1970's original television series). 12 episodes were made between 1981-83.

BBC produced What A Carry On. 13 episodes were made and were first broadcast between 1984-87.

Laugh with the Carry Ons was compiled in 1993 and produced by ITV.

These clip programmes were produced by Peter Rogers, and edited by Rogers and Gerald Thomas.

Many of the surviving Carry On actors were annoyed that they did not receive repeat fee royalties from these clip shows.


405

Fenella Fielding appears in two Carry On films: Carry On Regardless and Carry On Screaming!.


406

W.C Boggs & Son's toilet factory in Carry On At Your Convenience is the timber yard in Pinewood Studios.


407

Carry On Sergeant had preview screenings for cinema owners on the 1st August 1958, and screenings in certain regions such as Birmingham before being released nationally on the 20th September.


408

Valerie Leon made her Carry On debut in Carry On Up the Khyber. She had an uncredited role as a Hospitality girl.


409

Some of Carry On Cruising titles included:

"Girls at Sea" (Denmark), "Watch Out for the Cabins" (South America), "Mediterranean Cruise" (Greece), and "The Ships Cook is Seasick" (Germany).


410

A Carry On London film was in production in the early 2000s; near the end of the abandoned project, the name of the film was changed to Carry On Bananas.


411

Carry On Sergeant was Bernard Kay's first film.


412

Eric Barker had an idea for a Carry On about a European coach tour. Producer Peter Rogers though the idea would work better with a Mediterranean cruise and asked Barker to write a 40 page treatment. The treatment became Carry On Cruising.


413

That Mitchell and Webb Look is a BBC sketch show that ran from 2006 to 2010; it stars David Mitchell and Robert Webb. One sketch spoofing the Carry Ons in the show has a Bawdy 1970s Hospital, where everyone uses double ententres; one Doctor does not understand the concept and keeps using rude phrases instead of double ententres and is reprimanded.


414

Jim Dale appears in eleven Carry On films:

Carry On Cabby, Carry On Jack, Carry On Spying, Carry On Cleo, Carry On Cowboy, Carry On Screaming, Carry On Don't Lose Your Head, Carry On Doctor, Carry On Follow That Camel, Carry On Again Doctor and Carry On Columbus.


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Carry On Cowboy was inspired by comedy western such as The Paleface (1948) starring Bob Hope and The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958) with Kenneth More. The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw depicted an Englishman in the wild west, and both these comedies had buffonish heroes who were thought to be crack shots, but in reality female characters were the crack shots.


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In Carry On Henry,...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.10.2024
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Schlagworte: british comedy sitcom • british movies • carry on films comedy • carry on series • english comedy movies • Kenneth Williams • Sid James
• ISBN-10: 3-8187-0032-X / 381870032X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-8187-0032-4 / 9783818700324