“It’s all about a Dad . . . a Draftee . . . and a Detonation heard round the camp!”
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.
Gerald Thomas
Peter Rogers
Norman Hudis
John Antrobus
Peter Hennessy
Bob Monkhouse
Private Charlie Sage
William Hartnell
Sergeant Grimshawe
Shirley Eaton
Mary Sage
Eric Barker
Captain Potts
Dora Bryan
Norah
Bill Owen
Corporal Bill Copping
Charles Hawtrey
Private Peter Golightly
Kenneth Connor
Private Horace Strong
Kenneth Williams
Private James Bailey
Terence Longdon
Private Miles Heywood
Norman Rossington
Private Herbert Brown
Gerald Campion
Private Andy Calloway
... and 63 more
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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 freq...
CARRY ON SERGEANT TRAILER
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