36-435: No Parking is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Jack Raymond . The film features Charles Carson , Geraldo , Fred Groves , Gordon Harker and Leslie Perrins in the lead roles. The story was written by Carol Reed who later directed The Third Man . The film is considered lost, as no prints are known to exist. Albert is the unfortunate car park attendant who gets caught up with jewel thieves mistaking him for
72-713: A camp sensibility lay behind the successful Carry On films , while in America subversive independent film-maker John Waters made camp films for college audiences with his drag queen friends that eventually found a mainstream audience. The success of the American television show Saturday Night Live drove decades of cinema with racier content allowed on television drawing on the program's stars and characters, with bigger successes including Wayne's World , Mean Girls , Ghostbusters and Animal House . Parody and joke-based films continue to find audiences. While comedic films are among
108-418: A happy ending , with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the oldest genres in film, and it is derived from classical comedy in theatre . Some of the earliest silent films were slapstick comedies , which often relied on visual depictions, such as sight gags and pratfalls, so they could be enjoyed without requiring sound. To provide drama and excitement to silent movies, live music
144-526: A 14-year gap (1978–1992) between the 30th and 31st entries. (The James Bond film series is the longest-running, having started in 1962, four years after the first Carry On , though with fewer films.) Rogers and Thomas were responsible for all 31 films, usually on time and to a strict budget, and often employed the same crew — some of whom were also regulars on the James Bond series, such as Peter Lamont , Alan Hume , and Anthony Waye . Between 1958 and 1992,
180-497: A budget of £1.5 million, which was deemed too expensive – proved to be the end of the film and it was cancelled. The final proposed Carry On , before Peter Rogers's death in 2009, was Carry On London . Announced in 2003 by Rogers and producer James Black, it remained in pre-production well into 2008. The script was signed off by the production company in late March 2008, and "centred on a limousine company ferrying celebrities to an awards show". The film had several false starts, with
216-534: A large proportion of the location filming was undertaken close to the studios in and around south Buckinghamshire, including areas of Berkshire and Middlesex . However, by the late 1960s, at the height of the series' success, more ambitious plots occasionally necessitated locations further afield, which included Snowdonia National Park , Wales (with the foot of Snowdon standing in for the Khyber Pass in Carry On Up
252-420: A long-playing record, Oh! What a Carry On! (MFP MONO 1416), featuring songs performed by Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Kenneth Connor, Frankie Howerd, Bernard Bresslaw, Joan Sims, Barbara Windsor, and Dora Bryan . A 50-minute television documentary, What's a Carry On? , was made in 1998 for the 40th anniversary of the first film. It included archive clips, out-takes and interviews with surviving cast members. It
288-407: A number of VHSs were released in an eighteen VHS box-set on 1 September 2003. The film series was first released as a DVD box-set on 1 September 2008, by ITV Studios Home Entertainment. Five years later, on 7 October 2013, it was re-released with smaller packaging. All the movies contained in the collection are also available to buy individually. Since 2013, StudioCanal has released a number of
324-399: A principal performer. In his diaries Kenneth Williams lamented this, and criticised several of the movies despite his declared fondness for the series as a whole. Peter Rogers, the series' producer, acknowledged: "Kenneth was worth taking care of, because while he cost very little [...] he made a very great deal of money for the franchise." The Carry On series includes a broad cast across
360-674: A separate genre, but rather, provides a better understanding of the film. Carry On (franchise) Carry On is a British comedy franchise comprising 31 films, four Christmas specials, a television series and stage shows produced between 1958 and 1992. Produced by Peter Rogers , the Carry On films were directed by Gerald Thomas and starred a regular ensemble that included Sid James , Kenneth Williams , Charles Hawtrey , Joan Sims , Kenneth Connor , Peter Butterworth , Hattie Jacques , Terry Scott , Bernard Bresslaw , Barbara Windsor , Jack Douglas , and Jim Dale . The humour of Carry On
396-507: The Daily Star Sunday that "we have got two new stories and we are looking to do one of the old ones again to bring it up to modern day quality – probably Carry On Sergeant " . Baker's company Carry On Films Ltd was later dissolved. The characters and comedy style of the Carry On film series were adapted to a television series titled Carry On Laughing , and several Christmas specials . In 1971, Music for Pleasure released
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#1732869463958432-573: The Burton and Taylor epic Cleopatra (1963) but abandoned when production moved to Rome. Carry On Emmannuelle , inspired by the soft-porn Emmanuelle , brought to an end the original Carry On run. 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 ( Nurse , Doctor , Again Doctor , Matron and
468-559: The proposed Again Nurse ), the monarchy ( Henry ), the Empire ( Up the Khyber ), the armed forces ( Sergeant , England , Jack and the proposed Flying and Escaping ), the police ( Constable ) and the trade unions ( At Your Convenience ) as well as camping ( Camping ), foreign holidays ( Cruising , Abroad ), beauty contests ( Girls ), caravan holidays ( Behind ), and
504-520: The American gangster they've been waiting to join forces with. However, on the day of the heist, the real American gangster turns up, and Albert is revealed as an undercover policeman. No Parking at IMDb This article related to a British comedy film of the 1930s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Comedy film The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor . These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have
540-476: The British comic traditions of music hall and bawdy seaside postcards . Many titles parodied more serious films, such as their tongue-in-cheek homages to James Bond ( Spying ), westerns ( Cowboy ), and Hammer horror films ( Screaming! ). The most impressive of these was Carry On Cleo (1964), in which the budget-conscious production team made full use of some impressive sets that had been created in 1960 for
576-663: The Khyber ), and the beaches of the Sussex coast doubling as Saharan sand dunes in Follow That Camel . Carry On Sergeant (1958) 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. The film was sufficiently successful to inspire a similar venture, again focusing on an established and respected profession in Carry On Nurse . When that too
612-507: The acidic Kenneth Williamsesque character), Jynine James , Lenny Henry , Justin Lee Collins , Jennifer Ellison (as the saucy Barbara Windsor type), Liza Tarbuck (paralleling Hattie Jacques), Meera Syal , James Dreyfus , and Frank Skinner (filling in the Sid James role). Despite new media interest and sets being constructed at Pinewood Studios, the film was once again put on hold, and
648-403: The attempt was cancelled due to the financial loss of Carry On Emmannuelle . The final attempt to create Carry On Again Nurse came in 1988, with a script written by Norman Hudis . It was to revolve around a hospital set for closure, and set to star original actors Barbara Windsor , Jack Douglas , Kenneth Williams , Charles Hawtrey , Kenneth Connor and Joan Sims , with Sims filling in
684-508: The education system ( Teacher ) amongst others. Although the films were very often panned by critics, they mostly proved very popular with audiences. In 2007, the pun "Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me", spoken by Kenneth Williams (playing Julius Caesar ) in Carry on Cleo , was voted the funniest one-line joke in film history. However, this line had originally been written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden for Jimmy Edwards in
720-515: The film industry due to their popularity. In The Screenwriters Taxonomy (2017), Eric R. Williams contends that film genres are fundamentally based upon a film's atmosphere, character, and story, and therefore, the labels "drama" and "comedy" are too broad to be considered a genre. Instead, his taxonomy argues that comedy is a type of film that contains at least a dozen different sub-types. A number of hybrid genres have emerged, such as action comedy and romantic comedy . The first comedy film
756-428: The films and other adaptations. A regular core ensemble cast included Sid James , Kenneth Williams , Charles Hawtrey , Joan Sims , Kenneth Connor , Peter Butterworth , Hattie Jacques , Bernard Bresslaw , Barbara Windsor , and Jim Dale . Several other films were planned, scripted (or partly scripted) or entered pre-production before being abandoned: An intended sub-sequel to the successful Carry On Nurse
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#1732869463958792-743: The most popular with audiences at the box office, there is an 'historical bias against a close and serious consideration of comedy' when it comes to critical reception and conferring of awards, such as at the Academy Awards . Film writer Cailian Savage observes "Comedies have won Oscars, although they’ve usually been comedy-dramas, involved very depressing scenes, or appealed to stone-hearted drama lovers in some other way, such as Shakespeare in Love ." According to Williams' taxonomy , all film descriptions should contain their type (comedy or drama) combined with one (or more) sub-genres. This combination does not create
828-454: The named director. At the 50th anniversary party held at Pinewood Studios in March 2008, Rogers confirmed that he was planning a series of Carry On films after London , subject to the success of the first. In early 2009, Carry On London or Carry On Bananas was once again 'back on', with Charlie Higson attached as director, and a different, more modern, cast list involving Paul O'Grady (as
864-495: The producers and cast changing extensively over time. Only the little-known Welsh actress Jynine James remained a consistent name from 2003 to 2008. Danniella Westbrook , David Jason , Shaun Williamson and Burt Reynolds were also once attached to the project. It was announced in May 2006 that Vinnie Jones and Shane Richie were to star in the film, which was to be directed by Peter Richardson , though Ed Bye later replaced him as
900-528: The project was abandoned after the death of Peter Rogers in April 2009. In May 2016, producer Jonathan Sothcott of Hereford Films announced plans for a new series of Carry On films, beginning with Carry On Doctors and Carry On Campus . On 12 April 2017, Sothcott confirmed to the website The Hollywood News that he was no longer involved with the film series. As of September 2019, three Carry On films were set to be filmed back-to-back, after Brian Baker won
936-464: The radio series Take It From Here some years previously. A film had appeared in 1957 under the title Carry On Admiral ; although this was a comedy in similar vein (and even featured Joan Sims in the cast) it has no connection to the Carry On series itself. The much earlier 1937 film Carry On London is also unrelated (though it coincidentally starred future Carry On performer Eric Barker ). The cast were poorly paid—around £5,000 per film for
972-564: The rights to the movies following a legal battle with ITV earlier that year. Production of the new films had been planned to take place in spring 2020. However, filming was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and little more was heard about the project until after the death of Barbara Windsor in December 2020, when Baker announced that he would be using old footage of the actress in the film, saying "Barbara will be making an appearance." Baker told
1008-476: The role of Matron that was previously held by Hattie Jacques . The end of the film was going to be a tribute to Jacques, with Sims turning around a photograph of the actress and asking "Well, did I do alright?" (the script is included in the book The Lost Carry Ons ). Production was scheduled to begin in June 1988, but the death of Williams two months previously, followed by that of Hawtrey six months later – combined with
1044-464: The series employed seven writers, most often Norman Hudis (1958–1962) and Talbot Rothwell (1963–1974). Anglo Amalgamated Film Distributors Ltd produced 12 films (1958–1966), and the Rank Organisation made 18 (1966–1978), while United International Pictures produced one (1992). All films were made at Pinewood Studios near Iver Heath , Buckinghamshire . Budgetary constraints meant that
1080-508: The use of comedy film to make social statements by building their narratives around sensitive cultural, political or social issues. Such films include Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned to Love the Bomb , Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? and The Graduate . In America, the sexual revolution drove an appetite for comedies that celebrated and parodied changing social morals, including Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and Fanny Hill . In Britain,
1116-414: Was L'Arroseur Arrosé (1895), directed and produced by film pioneer Louis Lumière . Less than a minute long, it shows a boy playing a prank on a gardener. The most notable comedy actors of the silent film era (1895–1927) were Charlie Chaplin , Harold Lloyd , and Buster Keaton , though they were able to make the transition into “ talkies ” after the 1920s. Film-makers in the 1960s skillfully employed
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1152-431: Was in the British comic tradition of music hall and bawdy seaside postcards . The success of the films led to several spin-offs, including four Christmas television specials (1969–1973), a 1975 television series of 13 episodes, a West End stage show and two provincial summer shows. The Carry On series contains the largest number of films of any British film franchise, and is the second longest running, albeit with
1188-577: Was included as an extra on the DVD release of Carry On Emmannuelle . A two-hour radio documentary, Carry On Forever! , presented by Leslie Phillips , was broadcast in two parts on BBC Radio 2 on 19 and 20 July 2010. A three-part television retrospective with the same title, narrated by Martin Clunes , was shown on ITV3 in the UK over Easter 2015. The Carry On film series has had numerous individual releases on VHS, and
1224-417: Was played in sync with the action on the screen, on pianos, organs, and other instruments. When sound films became more prevalent during the 1920s, comedy films grew in popularity, as laughter could result from both burlesque situations but also from humorous dialogue . Comedy, compared with other film genres , places more focus on individual star actors, with many former stand-up comics transitioning to
1260-570: Was renamed and made as Carry On Doctor in 1967. Carry On Nurse was alluded to twice in Carry On Doctor , firstly with the sub-titles (one reading Nurse Carries On Again and Death of a Daffodil ), and again in a later scene with Frankie Howerd commenting on a vase of daffodils in his hospital room. A second attempt at Carry On Again Nurse came in 1979, after the series left Rank Films and moved to Hemdale. A completed script had been written by George Layton and Jonathan Lynn in 1977, but
1296-434: Was successful, further forays with Carry On Teacher and Carry On Constable established the series. This initial 'pattern' was broken with the fifth film in 1961, Carry On Regardless , but it still followed a similar plot to that of many of the early films—a small group of misfit newcomers to a job make comic mistakes, but come together to succeed in the end. The remainder of the series developed with increased use of
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