Carry On Cowboy came out November 1965 and the gang moves to the American west in the 1880's to make fun of Cowboys and Indians. You can just imagine. You'll have to since I couldn't find a copy for you to watch.
Carry On Screaming! came out in August 1966 and they're making fun of monster movies. I made the guys watch it at Friday Night Movie and they all fell asleep. Now that's a recommendation, I must say.
Don't Loose Your Head is the December 1966 Carry On film and it's set during the French Revolution. I don't know much about French history. I learned most of what I know from watching Start The Revolution Without Me and that makes me think it was a pretty hilarious period. I seem to remember reading that lots of people were laughing their heads off or something. The French Aristos are losing theirs to the guillotine and Brits Sid James and Jim Dale decide to come lend them a hand. Thus the Black Fingernail is born. SP like he travels around the countryside fighting the revolution and helping some lord or another.
Follow That Camel came out September 1967 and it sends up the French Foreign Legion. Jim Dale is playing cricket when he's falsely accused of tripping a man. Humiliated he leaves to join the FFL. The man who accused him, feeling guilty, shoots himself after he hungs himself. Just before he dies he confesses that he lied. Jim's girl goes off to find him. Jim has appeared in several of the Carry On movies and in the last few years he's been the voice of the Harry Potter audio books in the USA.
Carry On Doctor came out December 1967 and it puts the gang into a hospital. Jim Dale is doctor and he's a bit of a goof. Hattie Jacques is the Matron and Kenneth Williams is the Head Doctor. They have it in for Jim and the naughty nurse played by Barbara Windsor. Frankie Howard is one of the patients. He was only in two Carry On movies.
Carry On Up The Kyber was released September 1968. There's an anti-English rebellion going on in the Indian province near the Kyber Pass. There are plenty of jokes about tiffin and what the Highland soldiers wear under their kilts. Thankfully we don't see it.
Carry On Camping came out February 1969 and it's got Sid James and the gang camping in a field.
Carry On Again Doctor came out in August 1969 and the Carry On gang is in hospital again. Jim Dale is Doctor Nookie and he's a bumbling boobie who's a bit of an ass. You can tell I've been watching too many of these movies, huh. The Head Surgeon is Kenneth Williams and Joan Sims is his rich patient. Barbara Windsor plays Jim's love interest and she has quite the costume on when they first meet. Hattie Jacques is Matron again. Jim gets in so much trouble that they use that to send him off to the south seas to be a missionary doctor. Sid James is the local guy who runs the tiny clinic. He's got a weight reducing juice that Jim takes back to England to open a clinic around. Sid follows to get a cut of the action.
Carry On Up The Jungle is a March 1970 movie and Frankie Howerd is a jungle adventurer. I can't believe it either but he's giving a lecture with lantern slides which turns into a flashback of his trip. Sidney James and Joan Sims are a couple of the people on the safari. Bernard Bresslaw is the head barrier and Terry Scott is the Jungle Boy. Charles Hawtry is Joan's husband. He'd been lost in the jungle and thought dead. She finds him living with a tribe of women who don't have any male children. The males of the expedition become studs to the tribe and soon have to much of a good thing. Frankie Howerd has been in several movies but only 2 of the Carry On series. He's been popular on Brit tv and had shows in the 1960's and 1970's. I used to see him on the CBC when I was a kid. You can see him in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum and Up Pompeii.
Carry On Loving was a September 1970 release and in this one we find Sid James and Hattie Jacques running a dating agency. They have a fake computer that hides Hattie picking names at random. Richard O'Callahan is new to the series. He takes over for Jim Dale who left the series. He plays the young man who comes to the agency and Hattie hooks him up with Joan Sims. Sid's got a thing going with Joan but she isn't interested in him anymore. Kenneth Williams plays a married councilor who isn't married.
Carry On Henry came out in February 1971 and it's put the flame of humour under the bum of Henry the 8th and cranked it up to 11. I'm lying, the movie isn't that good. At least you can see it for free.
On average I don't think they are as good as the first third of the series. There are still plenty of laughs but they are broader and familiar. That didn't keep me from plowing through the lot of them. You could see a lot worse. You might want to space them out a bit. I'll link up the rest next year. Give you a chance to recover a bit.
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