Carry On England 1976
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...
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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Full Cast & Crew... Captain S. Melly
... Sergeant-Major 'Tiger' Bloomer
... Sergeant Tilly Willing
... Sergeant Len Able
... Bombardier Ready
... Private Jennifer Ffoukes-Sharpe
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See All 1 Reviews21 Jul 2023 by 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 It's way too predictable and the innocent cheekiness of the earlier films has been replaced by a rather crass degree of smuttiness that just makes this a bit crude.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.
Genres:
Release Date:
Oct 01, 1976 (United Kingdom)
Run Time:
1hr 29`
MMPA Rating:
Original Language:
English
Production Countries:
United Kingdom
Status:
Released

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Carry On England
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.
Cast & Crew of
Carry On England
Directors & Credit Writers
JC
Jack Causey... Assistant Director
... Director
Cast
... Captain S. Melly
... Sergeant-Major 'Tiger' Bloomer
... Sergeant Tilly Willing
... Sergeant Len Able
... Bombardier Ready
... Private Jennifer Ffoukes-Sharpe
... Gunner Shorthouse
... Major Carstairs
... Brigadier
... Private Alice Easy
... Major Butcher
... Captain Bull
LD
Larry Dann... Gunner Shaw
... Gunner Owen
... Melly's Driver
... Freda
... Corporal Cook
JC
John Carlin... Officer
LH
Linda Hooks... Nurse
... Officer
Produced By
RG
Roy Goddard... Production Manager
... Producer