Apr 28th
Carry on Sergeant

(GB 1958)           

Anglo Amalgamated. 83m. bw

A retiring drill sergeant enters into a wager that his inept bunch of National Service recruits  will become champion platoon.
Fairly routine and slightly tired service comedy with some good incidental cameos. From this relatively mundane of beginnings sprang the Carry On series which in time took on a very different (and often vulgar) form, but with elements and now familiar comic faces who flourished as the series progressed.

Written by: Norman Hudis, John Antrobus, based on the play "The Bull Boys" by R.F. Delderfield.
Producer: Peter Rogers.
Director: Gerald Thomas.
Starring: Bob Monkhouse, William Hartnell, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton,  Dora Bryan, Etic Barker, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams, Gerald Campion, Hattie Jacques, Bill Owen.
Photography: Peter Hennessy.
Music: Bruce Montgomery.

+ subsequent entries in the series: Carry on Nurse, Carry on Teacher, Carry on Constable,  Carry on Regardless, Carry on Cruising, Carry on Cabby, Carry on Jack, Carry on Spying,  Carry on Cleo, Carry on Cowboy, Carry on Screaming, Don't Lose Your Head, Follow That Camel,  Carry on Doctor, Carry on Up the Khyber, Carry on Camping, Carry on Again Doctor, Carry on Up the Jungle, Carry on Loving, Carry on Henry, Carry on at Your Convenience, Carry on Matron, Carry on Abroad, Carry on Girls, Carry on Dick [Turpin],  Carry on Behind, Carry on England, Carry on Emmanuelle, Carry on Columbus.