Carry On Sergeant

Unrated

10/27/19591h 24m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ It’s all about a Dad . . . a Draftee . . . and a Detonation heard round the camp! ~

Overview:

Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Servicemen. But a motley bunch they turn out to be, and it's up to Grimshawe to put the no-hopers through their paces.

Director:

Gerald Thomas

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

military spoof
sergeant
carry on
black and white

Cast

Bob Monkhouse

~ as ~

Private Charlie Sage

William Hartnell

~ as ~

Sergeant Grimshawe

Shirley Eaton

~ as ~

Mary Sage

Eric Barker

~ as ~

Captain Potts

Dora Bryan

~ as ~

Norah

Bill Owen

~ as ~

Corporal Bill Copping

Charles Hawtrey

~ as ~

Private Peter Golightly

Kenneth Connor

~ as ~

Private Horace Strong

Kenneth Williams

~ as ~

Private James Bailey

Terence Longdon

~ as ~

Private Miles Haywood

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
5
I suppose that this first of the "Carry On" films suffered quite definitely from being all to easily compared with the far funnier and potent wartime efforts of the likes of Will Hay and Norman Wisdom. These latter efforts had a far more immediate sense of blackened humour given that bombs were frequently dropping around them all as the films were being made. This is more of a compendium of satire and smut that struggles to build on quite a weak story, some rather puerile dialogue and a remarkably lacklustre effort from a team who seemed just a little too tentative and out-of-sorts to string the flimsy plot out. That story centres around the desire of "Sgt. Grimshawe" (William Hartnell) to retire in a blaze of glory by taking his ramshackle squadron of half-baked boys and girls and turn them into the winner of the "Star Squad" award. What ensues is slapstick-lite, with punchlines you can see from space and some really quite bland stereotypical characterisations of the nice but dim, the clever but hapless and the sexually frustrated - none of which really worked for me. It's barely eighty minutes long buy it felt longer and I was a bit bored with it by mid-way through. Better to come - well you'd hope so.