Carry On Sergeant
Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Servicemen. But a motley bunch they turn out to be, and it's up to Grimshawe to put the no-hopers through their paces.
Director(s)
Derek Martinus
Gerald Thomas
Cast & crew
James Villiers
Seventh Recruit
Shirley Eaton
Mary Sage
Bernard Kay
Injured Recruit
Kenneth Connor
Private Horace Strong
Rodney Cardiff
New Recruit (uncredited)
William Hartnell
Sergeant Grimshawe
Frank Forsyth
Second Specialist
Arnold Diamond
Fifth Specialist
Helen Goss
Mary's Mother (uncredited)
Ernest Fennemore
New Recruit (uncredited)
Ernest Blyth
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Martin Boddey
Sixth Specialist
Reg Thomason
Soldier (uncredited)
Terence Longdon
Private Miles Haywood
Jack Smethurst
First Recruit
Kenneth Williams
Private James Bailey
Patrick Durkin
Sixth Recruit
Ken Hutchins
Soldier (uncredited)
Mary Maxfield
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Martin Wyldeck
Mr. Sage (uncredited)
Hyma Beckley
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Don McCorkindale
Third Recruit
Gordon Tanner
First Specialist
Graydon Gould
Ninth Recruit
Gerald Thomas
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Charles Hawtrey
Private Peter Golightly
Hattie Jacques
Captain Clark
Terry Scott
Sergeant Paddy O'Brien
Anthony Sagar
Stores Sergeant
Victor Hagan
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Gerry Judge
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
John Ketteringham
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Bob Monkhouse
Private Charlie Sage
Bill Owen
Corporal Bill Copping
Eric Barker
Captain Potts
Cyril Chamberlain
Stores Sergeant
Dora Bryan
Norah
Norman Rossington
Private Herbert Brown
Gerald Campion
Private Andy Calloway
Ian Whittaker
Medical Corporal
Leigh Madison
Sheila
Basil Dignam
Third Specialist
John Gatrell
Fourth Specialist
Alec Bregonzi
First Storesman
Graham Stewart
Second Storesman
Alexander Harris
Third Storesman
Ed Devereaux
Sergeant Russell
Pat Feeney
Fourth Storesman
Edward Judd
Fifth Storesman
John Mathews
Sergeant Matthews
Ronald Clarke
Sixth Storesman
David Williams
Seventh Storesman
Haydn Ward
Eighth Recruit
Brian Jackson
Second Recruit
Jeremy Dempster
Tenth Recruit
Leon Eagles
Fourth Recruit
Terry Dickinson
Eleventh Recruit
Malcolm Webster
Fifth Recruit
Henry Livings
Twelfth Recruit
Tony Mendleson
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Derek Martinus
Recruit
Joe Phelps
Corporal (uncredited)
Michael Hunt
Fourteenth Recruit
John Bailey
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Arnold Schulkes
New Recruit (uncredited)
Ivor Danvers
Recruit (uncredited)
Nicholas Donnelly
Recruit (uncredited)
John Payne
Soldier on Sick Parade (uncredited)
Bernard Foreman
Lance Corporal (uncredited)
Laurence Harrington
Recruit (uncredited)
Norman Hartley
Thirteenth Recruit (uncredited)
Benny Lee
Recruit (uncredited)
Don McMurray
New Recruit (uncredited)
Jimmy Millar
Sergeant (uncredited)
Bunny Seaman
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Bob Wright
New Recruit (uncredited)
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Reviews
CinemaSerf
I suppose that this first of the "Carry On" films suffered quite definitely from being all to easily compared with the far funnier and potent wartime efforts of the likes of Will Hay and Norman Wisdom. These latter efforts had a far more immediate sense of blackened humour given that bombs were frequently dropping around them all as the films were being made. This is more of a compendium of satire and smut that struggles to build on quite a weak story, some rather puerile dialogue and a remarkably lacklustre effort from a team who seemed just a little too tentative and out-of-sorts to string the flimsy plot out. That story centres around the desire of "Sgt. Grimshawe" (William Hartnell) to retire in a blaze of glory by taking his ramshackle squadron of half-baked boys and girls and turn them into the winner of the "Star Squad" award. What ensues is slapstick-lite, with punchlines you can see from space and some really quite bland stereotypical characterisations of the nice but dim, the clever but hapless and the sexually frustrated - none of which really worked for me. It's barely eighty minutes long buy it felt longer and I was a bit bored with it by mid-way through. Better to come - well you'd hope so.
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