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We had thread on her kev, where were you? Lol
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More Doctor in Clover delights: Andre Maranne pops up in a French film within the film, one with ridiculously limited subtitles. And Leslie Phillips goes down to Carnaby Street and returns to the hospital now all groovy-looking.
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Carry On Toho.
... or ...
The Showa must carry on!
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What's the one starring Bob Monkhouse as a dentist? I remember watching that as a kid in the 70s when he was doing The Golden Shot game show, and couldn't believe the Elvis quiff. I thought gosh he must be old to have being stuff that long, lol.
Just sat down to watch Python's Holy Grail dvd and of course, how does the film start? With Dentist on the Job of course. The gag being, way after opening credits and music finish you have some wheezing old protectionist muttering about it being the wrong reel. And then puts on the proper Python film. I dont think this was in the original cinema release, something they added for the dvd. The original film i think begins with the caption gags about moose and llamas. 
Also wik
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Were you looking to see if the blokes loading the Dreem truck were python regulars? Lol
When i bought the LP soundtrack to Grail in the record shop, the inner white sleeve said "YOU HAVE JUST WASTED OVER £2"
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Were you looking to see if the blokes loading the Dreem truck were python regulars? Lol
When i bought the LP soundtrack to Grail in the record shop, the inner white sleeve said "YOU HAVE JUST WASTED OVER £2"
Python albums are full of great pranks, whether on the sleeves or within the record play itself.
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I'm starting my Great Carry On Rewatch tonight with Carry On Sergeant and will continue chronologically through the whole series. I hope to complete this rewatch before the month is over, but I'm not sure how slow or fast my rate will be. (I did the whole series in two weeks this past autumn, but I was obsessed to see them all quickly then.)
Speaking of British comedy, any Brits here ever seen the 1970 Futtocks End? An amusing 45 minute visual + comic sound effects film; definitely a Carry On flavor to it. My favorite gag was the interesting journey a bun takes before Ronnie Barker finally eats it.
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Speaking of British comedy, any Brits here ever seen the 1970 Futtocks End? An amusing 45 minute visual + comic sound effects film; definitely a Carry On flavor to it. My favorite gag was the interesting journey a bun takes before Ronnie Barker finally eats it.
I think I have this on dvd, with a few others, not sewn it in a while, though.
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Futtocks is superb.
Saw at cinema as a "second filler" and it was better than the main movie. Seen on tv in 70s too, always loved it, music n mumbling. The breakfast hangover scene after the drunken night is wonderful, everyone opening the steel trays, not fancying anything and cymbal-crashing the lids down. One bit, a fish on a plate looks at him! Michael hordern as butler on motor bike taking girl pillion with mini skirt up her arse made me laugh too.
Python albums sleeve extras - one of them has half the people prominent around the time of the kennedy assassination all blaming each other for the album.
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Finally rewatched CARRY ON LOVING on DVD the other day: first time I'd seen it since either a TV screening or the VHS rental release. (I hadn't bought it; it's in a shoebox with a stack of other discs that came free with the newspapers several years ago.) Not a masterpiece, but I enjoyed it more than I'd expected, and nice to see that for the brief hospital sequence Eric Rogers quoted a melody from his medical Carry On scores.
While the historical ones might be said to be more timeless, the "present-day" ones are nice snapshots of the time they were made: attitudes, music, interior design etc.
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Futtocks is superb.
Saw at cinema as a "second filler" and it was better than the main movie. Seen on tv in 70s too, always loved it, music n mumbling. The breakfast hangover scene after the drunken night is wonderful, everyone opening the steel trays, not fancying anything and cymbal-crashing the lids down. One bit, a fish on a plate looks at him! Michael hordern as butler on motor bike taking girl pillion with mini skirt up her arse made me laugh too.
Python albums sleeve extras - one of them has half the people prominent around the time of the kennedy assassination all blaming each other for the album.
Futtocks is indeed good fun. And with a cacophonic soundtrack of very busy comedy music, sound f/x, and murmurs and squeals, lol. Too bad though that the beautiful Kika Markham was underused.
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In case you're looking for some music:
Eric Rogers Bruce Montgomery WHAT A CARRY ON ! Gavin Sutherland Soundtrack (Vocalion)
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/333875170308
Cool! It's a delight for me to finally hear Bruce Montgomery's music. I've long been a fan of his Edmund Crispin mystery novels.
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Finally rewatched CARRY ON LOVING on DVD the other day: first time I'd seen it since either a TV screening or the VHS rental release. (I hadn't bought it; it's in a shoebox with a stack of other discs that came free with the newspapers several years ago.) Not a masterpiece, but I enjoyed it more than I'd expected, and nice to see that for the brief hospital sequence Eric Rogers quoted a melody from his medical Carry On scores.
While the historical ones might be said to be more timeless, the "present-day" ones are nice snapshots of the time they were made: attitudes, music, interior design etc.
Loving is one of my favorites of the later films. (On an earlier page some of the guys here had to explain the "cooking fat" joke to me!)
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On the Futtocks end front, I remember a early movie in that style with Mr Barker Called A home of your own , I think it won an award.
Then there was of course The Plank , and a odd one I caught at the cinema as a double bill in the UK was a movie called Rhubarb Rhubarb, and yes that was the only words spoken. I seem to remember the BBC showed two more follow up's to Futtocks end one was The Picnic, the other I think was the seaside , not sure on the second title though.
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Yes, Home of your Own was superb. (B &W but again great music).
It was a pisstake of move day to a new estate and rushed new homes like wimpey that werent finished, workmen still there, glass missing etc.
From memory Richard briers turns on bath tap and gas comes out, and picks up shower head in bath and telephone exchange voice says "Number, please?"
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Nurse (the first and best of the medical Carry Ons) last night, Teacher this evening.
In the interim between watching all the Carry Ons last October and now, I watched several other mid-1950s to early 1960s British comedy films - e.g. the Doctor series, Raising the Wind, The March Hare, True as a Turtle, Twice Round the Daffodils, and others - and I can now see how the early Carry On movies fit into that context.
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