Carry On (franchise)
The Carry On series consists of 31 British comedy motion pictures, four Christmas specials, a television series of thirteen episodes, and three stage plays. The films’ humour was in the British comic tradition of music hall and bawdy seaside postcards. All the films were made at Pinewood Studios near Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire.
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The Carry On series consists of 31 British comedy motion pictures, four Christmas specials, a television series of thirteen episodes, and three stage plays. The films’ humour was in the British comic tradition of music hall and bawdy seaside postcards. All the films were made at Pinewood Studios near Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire. The stock-in-trade of Carry On humour was innuendo and the sending-up of British institutions and customs, such as the National Health Service, the monarchy, the Empire, the armed forces, the police and the trade unions. In 2007, the pun \”Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me\”, spoken by Kenneth Williams in Carry on Cleo, was voted the funniest one-line joke in film history. The series contains the largest number of films of any British series, and it is the second-longest British film series, although with a fourteen-year break between the 30th and 31st entries. The much earlier 1937 film Carry On London is also unrelated. The cast were poorly paid—around £5,000 per film for a whole series, despite the principal performer’s fondness for the whole.
The cast was to consist of three astronauts who would have been constantly bungled on their mission into space. Several other films were planned before being abandoned: Carry On Spaceman, in 1961, was scripted by Norman Hudis and was likely to be released shortly after Carry On Regardless, but it was never made. The most impressive of these was Carry On Cleo, in which the budget-conscious production team made full use of some impressive sets that had been intended for the Burton-and-Taylor epic Cleopatra. Carry On Emmannuelle, inspired by the soft-porn Emmanuelle, brought to an end the original Carry On run. When that too was successful, further forays with Carry On Teacher and Carry On Constable established the series. The film was sufficiently successful to inspire a similar venture, again focusing on an established and respected profession in Carry On Nurse. The film is about a group of recruits doing National Service; its title, a command commonly issued by army officers to their sergeants in the course of their routine duties, was in keeping with its setting.
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