Surviving an assassination attempt, the Prince Regent (Hugh Laurie) concludes that he'd be more popular if learned to give...
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1987
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1986
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The Carry On series is living on fumes in this late entry. An unofficial burlesque of the Emmanuelle series (albeit with a...
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Leyland, the chauffeur
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1978
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The long-running series of British "Carry On" comedies was nearing the end of the line when this 28th film in the cycle was...
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Capt. S. Melly
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1976
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The British comedy group chalks up another few laughs as some folks attempt to camp out on the location of an archaeological...
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Major Leep
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1975
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This threadbare "Carry On" comedy is set in the 18th century and concerns a fellow with a dual identity: by day, he's the...
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Constable
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1974
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This film brings more ribald nonsense from the British "Carry On" gang. This time the setting is the Spanish resort town of...
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Stanley Blunt
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1974
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The last of four "medical" entries in the Carry On series is also the lewdest; whether it's the funniest is a matter of taste...
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1973
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The "Carry On" gang returns with Sidney Fiddler (Sid James) conning the local council into running a beauty pageant to...
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Frederick Bumble
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1973
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This feature is basically a silent comedy as the only word spoken is "rhubarb." A Vicar (Harry Secombe) plays golf with the...
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1970
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This bawdy entry in the long-running series of British "Carry On" comedies is set in the court of King Henry the VIII and...
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1970
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An extremely low budget -- shot on an obvious studio set and featuring cheap and grainy stock footage -- only adds to the...
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1970
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Captain Nemo and the Underwater City thrusts several "name" actors into the specialized world of Jules Verne. Six...
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1969
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The multi-million dollar film extravaganza Cleopatra was too convenient a target for Britain's "Carry On" funsters to ignore....
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Hengist Pod
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1965
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Freddie and the Dreamers--remember them?--star in the British musical quickie Cuckoo Patrol. Apparently hoping to cash in on...
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1965
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This rock comedy features an alien who tries to distribute peace, love and understanding around Britain. ~ Rovi...
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1965
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The seventh film in the long-running "Carry On" series (24 more were to follow), this chapter features Sidney James as...
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Ted
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1963
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1963
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The original British title for No Place Like Homicide was What a Carve-Up. This level of sophistication was maintained for...
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Ernie Broughton
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1962
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A familiar cast and crew -- which will continue carrying on for several more of these comedies by director Gerald Thomas --...
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Arthur Binn
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1962
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Sam Field
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1962
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The "Carry On" gang take on employment agencies in this labored edition to the long-running comedy series. Sidney James is...
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Sam Twist
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1961
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In another standard British comedy of the absurd with the usual eccentric characters who play off each other like tennis...
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1961
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This scattered, slightly anarchic and uneven comedy stars the inimitable Terry-Thomas as Reggie Blake, a writer whose books...
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1961
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Essentially a one-joke comedy hanging on the thinnest of plots, this routine series of slapstick situations is directed by...
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AC 2 Alexander Wood
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1961
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Based on the play Something About a Sailor by Earle Couttie, this film is a screwball comedy about the British navy....
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Blissworth
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1961
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Gamboling along in a series of sketches without great regard for anything except the next joke, this is a light-minded,...
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Sammy Field
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1960
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The "Carry On" gang take on law enforcement in this rude and crude slapstick comedy. When a flu epidemic leaves a British...
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Constable Charlie Constable
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1960
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The third TV project of producer-puppeteer Gerry Anderson, the British series Four Feather Falls was also the first to employ...
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1960
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This third entry in the "Carry On" sweepstakes concerns William Wakefield (Ted Ray), the much-loved headmaster at a British...
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Gregory Adams
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1959
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A persuasive ad man cons a British TV makeup artist to slip in a promotion for Bonko Detergent during a show in this comedy....
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Anxious Husband
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1959
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The "Carry On" gang take up residence in the men's ward of a British hospital in this wildly funny and wildly crude farce....
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Bernie Bishop
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1959
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This first entry in the long-running (some would say interminable) British "Carry On" series is at base a collection of...
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1958
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Corpulent "Goon Show" regular Harry Secombe plays the title role in the British comedy Davy. Set in the rarefied world of the...
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1958
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1955
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The British The Black Rider was inevitably listed as a "mystery" or "drama" in TV Guide back in the 1950s and 1960s. Don't...
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1954
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The British Roadhouse Girl was released in the US as Marilyn, but don't go looking for Ms. Monroe around these parts....
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1953
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In this comedy, a diamond merchant's secretary gets fired by her new boss for being too efficient. She ends up kidnapped by...
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1953
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A smuggler's headquarters, an Irish castle, is inherited by Walter-Ellis who is ignorant of the smugglers' activities. ~ Rovi...
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1950
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In this psychological drama set in a small English village, the villagers become hysterical after a series of damning...
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1939
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