Carry On, Carry On's

[Moonraker]

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Gotta say I never like Frankie Howerd much.. over acted big time.

I loved Frakie Howerd in the Carry Ons. He brought a different dimension to the film.

[Danniella]

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Camping was filmed during a rainy autumn that produced loads of mud. This can be seen frequently through the film, including people sinking & slipping. To hide the mud, green paint was used. The leaves (which had by now either dropped or turned brown) were spray-painted. Oh the glamor of cinema.

Remember we watched it at the same time, opposite sides of the world but we still chatted through out! Haha.

[staffslad]

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I can believe that about Silvers. Was he on something or sotted to the eyeballs. He spoiled that film and no mistake.

Silvers was losing his sight, so had to wear contact lenses as well as spectacles. I think the producers were trying to crack the US market, hence the inclusion of Silvers. I used to think he was in it due to Sid James's heart attack, but the dates don't match. I think Sid would have been better as the Sgt.

[Donald the Great]

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Camping was filmed during a rainy autumn that produced loads of mud. This can be seen frequently through the film, including people sinking & slipping. To hide the mud, green paint was used. The leaves (which had by now either dropped or turned brown) were spray-painted. Oh the glamor of cinema.

[Donald the Great]

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Gotta say I never like Frankie Howerd much.. over acted big time.

[Donald the Great]

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They also had problems with a camel that couldn't walk on sand, having lived in a zoo all it's life!

Kenneth Williams found Phil Silvers using idiot boards to remember his lines amateurish.

I can believe that about Silvers. Was he on something or sotted to the eyeballs. He spoiled that film and no mistake.

[Richard1978]

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Interesting trivia here.

I read about those in a book about the Carry Ons

[Danniella]

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They also had problems with a camel that couldn't walk on sand, having lived in a zoo all it's life!

Kenneth Williams found Phil Silvers using idiot boards to remember his lines amateurish.

Interesting trivia here.

[Richard1978]

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In Follow that Camel, filming was delayed several times as there was snow covering the sand.

Phil Silvers played Sgt Knocker. Is that the only instance of an American actor in a Carry On? Can't think of any others, but I stand to be corrected.

They also had problems with a camel that couldn't walk on sand, having lived in a zoo all it's life!

Kenneth Williams found Phil Silvers using idiot boards to remember his lines amateurish.

[staffslad]

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In Follow that Camel, filming was delayed several times as there was snow covering the sand.

Phil Silvers played Sgt Knocker. Is that the only instance of an American actor in a Carry On? Can't think of any others, but I stand to be corrected.

[Danniella]

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Carry On Doctor: Contains a sly reference to Carry On Nurse (1959), specifically the daffodil thermometer scene. When a nurse approaches Francis Bigger with a daffodil, he says, "Oh no you don't! I saw that film!"

Haha! I remember that scene

[Donald the Great]

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Carry On Doctor: Contains a sly reference to Carry On Nurse (1959), specifically the daffodil thermometer scene. When a nurse approaches Francis Bigger with a daffodil, he says, "Oh no you don't! I saw that film!"

[staffslad]

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That is sad news. I read that people thought it was part of Sids performance that he was ill on stage.

I believe you are right. Similar to when Tommy Cooper had a heart attack and the audience thought he was fooling about as part of his act.

[Danniella]

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Babs must have been reluctant then to go topless in that famous scene Nugs.. while the other girls were also in bikinis. Cast did it tuff under Peter Rogers. I will seek out more CO trivia and post it.

She didn't look reluctant in Carry On Dick, as she rang the church bells her top flew open, predictable but funny!

[Danniella]

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Jacques was a very talented actress, and anyone else in the role of Matron in the Carry Ons is now unimaginable.


A bit of sad trivia. In Carry on Abroad, the actress who played the brothel madam was one of the first that Sid James worked with when he arrived in England from South Africa, and was on the stage with James in 1976 when he suffered his fatal heart attack.

That is sad news. I read that people thought it was part of Sids performance that he was ill on stage.