The Carry On Collection
A 7-Disc Box Set!
For more than four decades, it was the best-loved and most successful comedy phenomenon in British cinema history. Today, these movies remain classics of inspired farce, saucy fun and the cheeky peak of distinctly English humour. This is The Carry On Collection.
The Carry On Collection includes 12 of the series' best and most popular movies featuring such legendary "Carry On" stars as Sid James, Joan Sims, Peter Butterworth, Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor, Jim Dale, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Bernard Bresslaw, Hattie Jacques and many more. And if that wasn't enough messin' about, there's also That's Carry On! -- the unprecedented celebration of greatest bits from twenty eight different Carry On films, available only in this collection.
Member Reviews
Some Great Gems here! - Sunscream
This collection contains some of the best British Comedies of that period! Carry on Jack, Carry on Cleo, and Carry on Spying, Carry on Cabbie being some of my absolute favourites! Low on budget but high on laughs, these films offer subtle sexual humour (mostly) and many screwball scenes of mistaken identity, miscommunications, and over-top mad-cap fun! Some real gems here! Check them out!As British as fish and chips - Superdave
The Carry On formula was a straightforward one: take any familiar stuffy Brit institution with its blustering authority figures and inflexible bureaucracy and reduce it to chaos with a little strategically applied low class maliciousness. The resulting mayhem and farcical runnings about inevitably turn pompous prigs into quivering jellies, to the roaring amusement of Brit audiences who lived their lives under the heel of such petty authorities and loved to watch them taken down. The first film, Carry On Sergeant, is actually a formula service comedy and a fairly good one with few of the recognizable 'Carry On Gang' present and little in the way of anarchic assault on a ripe target, that is, the British Army. The second movie, Carry on Nurse, with its casual snipes at the Public Health, zany ward carryings on after hours by bored neglected patients fed up with their authoritarian Matron (Hattie Jacques, in her first of more than a dozen appearances as this familiar type) and fighting back in a series of anarchic stunts, shows the Carry On formula in ready-made form and is an excellent starting point for new viewers.Monty Python's Parents - Rozalynd_the_Red
I believe that the Carry On Gang was the start of the evolution of humour preparing us for Monty Python. They were able to break down the major personality types and show their weakness as ordinary people. Although the humour was mostly sexual in nature, the slap-stick jokes are liberally scattered in the dialogue.
I found the cast and the script true the British humour and will continue to rent the whole series.
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Some Great Gems here! - Sunscream
This collection contains some of the best British Comedies of that period! Carry on Jack, Carry on Cleo, and Carry on Spying, Carry on Cabbie being some of my absolute favourites! Low on budget but high on laughs, these films offer subtle sexual humour (mostly) ...As British as fish and chips - Superdave
The Carry On formula was a straightforward one: take any familiar stuffy Brit institution with its blustering authority figures and inflexible bureaucracy and reduce it to chaos with a little strategically applied low class maliciousness. The resulting mayhem ...Monty Python's Parents - Rozalynd_the_Red
I believe that the Carry On Gang was the start of the evolution of humour preparing us for Monty Python. They were able to break down the major personality types and show their weakness as ordinary people. Although the humour was mostly sexual in nature, ...