Carry On England
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...
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Gerald Thomas
Jack Causey
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CinemaSerf
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 It's way too predictable and the innocent cheekiness of the earlier films has been replaced by a rather crass degree of smuttiness that just makes this a bit crude.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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Carry On England FAQs
The directors of Carry On England are Gerald Thomas and Jack Causey.
The cast of Carry On England includes Billy J. Mitchell as Gunner Childs, Kenneth Connor as Captain S. Melly, Windsor Davies as Sergeant Major "Tiger" Bloomer, Peter Jones as Brigadier, Diane Langton as Private Alice Easy, Linda Regan as A.T.S. Private Taylor, Jeannie Collings as A.T.T. Private Edwards, Melvyn Hayes as Gunner Shorthouse, Winston Churchill as Self (archive footage) (uncredited), Joan Sims as Private Jennifer Ffoukes-Sharpe, Peter Butterworth as Major Carstairs, Jack Douglas as Bombardier Ready, and more.
The duration of Carry On England is 1h 29 mins.
Carry On England was released on 01 Oct 1976.
Carry On England is listed under Comedy on Fanbiz.
Carry On England has 1 review on Fanziz, with an average rating of 5.0/10. One reviewer wrote: "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...."
