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[thisbluespirit]

I did promise this a while back - just a few.  (Sorry, the quality isn't great on some of them.  My technical skills are developing slowly!)

And I should have said in my incoherent high-on-nice-reviews-post that the reason I love seeing Hattie Jacques getting a role like this is because she is almost always the dragon of a hospital Matron.  So often that on one occasion, even the scriptwriter gives a nod to her being the same Matron ("I worked at a hospital in my previous job - there was a surgeon there who looked just like you," she says to Kenneth Williams in Carry on Camping...)

Okay:

So here she is playing the female lead, as initially shy and unassertive Peggy who teaches her husband a lesson and discovers she's better at running a taxi-firm than he is.
(I love her way of dealing with his missing their anniversary: "No, I'm the one who should apologise...  I shouldn't sit here, moping around all day and keep on expecting you to take me out once a year.." Heh heh.)

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[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Ah, those early black-and-white Carry Ons have a charm all their own... I don't think it was till Carry on Spying maybe that they got the formula down pat... Carry on Sergeant - not only does it have Hartnell (who's great in it!), but bizarrely a very young-looking Bob Monkhouse as well!! My favourite Carry On is either Up the Khyber, or Carry On Screaming, as the mood takes me...

[thisbluespirit]

I think Carry on Spying came after a couple of the colour ones - it was made deliberately in b&w. I'm sure Cleo came first. My favourites are Cabby and Cowboy, but I think either Cleo, Screaming or Carry on Up the Khyber probably are the funniest.

And I really do love the b&w ones. Watching in retrospect, no one's roles have been set in stone yet (except poor Hattie). I know, I cannot get over Bob Monkhouse. It's one of the most distracting things about any film I know!! (Lots of the early ones also turn up a young Bill Owen, who doesn't look much different to the old Bill Owen, save for the bobble hat).