Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23140 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-09-01
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 342 minutes

Synopsis
This volume of classic CARRY ON films includes; CARRY ON GIRLS, CARRY ON DICK, CARRY ON ENGLAND, and CARRY ON BEHIND.

Customer Reviews

Wanted in six counties? With a name like that, they'll be wondering what for...
Four largely disappointing Carry On films from the series' dying days. The best of the bunch is the ribald period piece Carry On Dick (Turpin, that is), which was Sidney James' final movie in the series, and casts him to type one last time, as a scheming, randy old goat; the film is as under-budgeted as usual, and recycles too many jokes from earlier films in the series, but as the last film to feature a large number of the classic Carry On line-up, it's reasonably watchable. Whilst the saving grace is Kenneth Williams' typically nostril-flaring villain `Dandy' Desmond Fancey, the Bow Street Runner on Turpin's tail, the rest of the cast look bored and annoyed at going through the motions, and they are mostly too old for the characters they play (Barbara Windsor and Joan Sims in particular). The other films are less worthwhile; Carry On Girls is based around a seaside beauty contest overseen by another of James' lecherous old chancers, and is a vaguely seedy, trouser-dropping piece of nonsense; Carry On Behind sees Williams' accident-prone archaeologist causing havoc at a campsite (fittingly enough); and Carry On England is a truly worthless barrack-room sex farce that features very few of the regular Carry On team, and probably ranks as the worst film in the series.
A far cry from the cheaply made and lowbrow, but endearingly witty and lively Carry On films of the series' 1963 to 1968 golden age, these four movies (which date from 1973 to 1976), don't really have much to recommend them, and are full of weak, unsophisticated dross that would make most modern viewers question why they are even watching. Three of these four films feature the hideous late addition to the team Jack Douglas, doing his usual `comedy' shtick, playing a wailing, arm-waving simpleton; the scripts are tired and not a little sexist; and the overall impression given is of a production line in terminal decline (which, of course, it was). Apart from the opportunity to see the always entertaining Williams giving it his all (though he's only in two of the four films included here), there's no real reason to subject yourself to this bumper pack of dated dreck.