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Carry On England

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4.6/10 • 39

1976-10-011h 29m

Comedy

Captain S. Melly takes over as the new Commanding Officer at an experimental mixed sex air defence base. It's 1940 and England is under heavy bombardment, but the crew seem more interested in each other than the enemy planes above. Captain Melly plans to put a stop to all this, and becomes the target of a campaign to abandon his separatist ideals...

Directors
Gerald Thomas
Editors
Richard Marden

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  1. Kenneth Connor

    Kenneth Connor

    Captain S. Melly

  2. Windsor Davies

    Windsor Davies

    Sergeant-Major 'Tiger' Bloomer

  3. Judy Geeson

    Judy Geeson

    Sergeant Tilly Willing

  4. Patrick Mower

    Patrick Mower

    Sergeant Len Able

  5. Jack Douglas

    Jack Douglas

    Bombardier Ready

  6. Joan Sims

    Joan Sims

    Private Jennifer Ffoukes-Sharpe

  7. Melvyn Hayes

    Melvyn Hayes

    Gunner Shorthouse

  8. Peter Butterworth

    Peter Butterworth

    Major Carstairs

  9. Peter Jones

    Peter Jones

    Brigadier

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CinemaSerf

Jul 21, 2023

5/10

I'm afraid that by 1976, this franchise had well and truly run it's course - and this puerile and really quite tacky attempt at a wartime comedy put a final nail in it's coffin. Funnily enough, the innuendo-ridden character names look better on paper than they do when mentioned on screen - as illustrated by Kenneth Connor's lead character "Capt. S. Melly" who, alongside his sergeant-major "Bloomer" (Windsor Davies) spend their time trying to keep the men and women from their platoon from getting into any hanky panky. Trousers are constantly up and down, knickers fly from flagpoles, there are even tunnels used in attempt to lift this from the comedy doldrums but unfortunately they just don't work. It's way too predictable and the innocent cheekiness of the earlier films has been replaced by a rather crass degree of smuttiness that just makes this a bit crude. Joan Sims tries hard to bring back some semblance of the old days, but by the end you really do realise just how much better Messrs. James/Hawtrey/Williams and Hattie Jacques actually were at delivering a light-hearted comedy with an hint of naughtiness. I'd just give this a miss, sorry.

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