Carry On (franchise)
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| Directed by | Gerald Thomas |
| Produced by | Peter Rogers |
| Written by |
Norman Hudis (1958–62) Talbot Rothwell (1963–74) |
| Starring |
Kenneth Williams Joan Sims Charles Hawtrey Sid James Kenneth Connor Peter Butterworth Bernard Bresslaw Hattie Jacques Jim Dale Marianne Stone Barbara Windsor Patsy Rowlands Jack Douglas Terry Scott Bill Owen Leslie Phillips And The Other Cast... |
| Music by |
Bruce Montgomery (1958–62) Eric Rogers (1963–75, 1978) Max Harris (1976) Kenneth Williams (1977) |
| Distributed by |
Anglo-Amalgamated Rank Organisation |
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Release date
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1958–1978, 1992, 2017 |
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Running time
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2776 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Carry On franchise primarily consists of a sequence of 31 low-budget British comedy motion pictures (1958–92), four Christmas specials, a television series of thirteen episodes, and three West End and provincial stage plays. The films' humour was in the British comic tradition of the music hall and bawdy seaside postcards. Producer Peter Rogers and director Gerald Thomas drew on a regular group of actors, the Carry On team, 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 Carry On series contains the largest number of films of any British series; and it is the longest continually running UK film series although with a fourteen-year break (1978–92). Anglo Amalgamated Film Distributors Ltd produced twelve films (1958–66), and the Rank Organisation made the remaining nineteen (1967–92).
Producer Peter Rogers and director Gerald Thomas made all 31 films, usually on time and to a strict budget, and often employed the same crew. Between 1958 and 1992, the series employed seven writers, most often Norman Hudis (1958–62) and Talbot Rothwell (1963–74). In between the films, Rogers and Thomas produced four Christmas specials in 1969, 1970, 1972 and 1973, a thirteen episode television series in 1975 and various West End stage shows which later toured the regions.
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