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Carry On Camping [1968]
starring: Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams, Terry Scott
directed by: Gerald Thomas

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Parental Guidance
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5037115044631
Format: PAL, Special Edition, Widescreen
Label: ITV DVD
Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: ITV DVD
Region Code: 2
Release Date: July 07, 2003
Running Time: 136 minutes
Studio: ITV DVD
Theatrical Release Date: 1968
Sales Rank: 2679

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
There are three periods to Carry On. Early on, they were typical British light comedy capers, hardly risqué. By the 1970s, the loveable double-entendres had been replaced by an almost nasty sleaziness, culminating in 1977's Carry On Emanuelle. 1969's Carry On Camping, thankfully, belongs to the Golden Years. Pretty much everybody is present and correct, if not politically. Sid James is a likely-ish, if slightly elderly lad, persuading Joan Sims to join him at what he secretly expects to be a nudist colony. Terry Scott is a put-upon suburbian, coerced into outdoor vacations by his ghastly, horsey-laughed wife, while Charles Hawtrey is the campest of campers who befriends them. Kenneth Williams, who alone makes this worth watching, is gloriously ridiculous as head of a girl's school, Chayste Place, with Hattie Jacques as Matron and Barbara Windsor as one of the 30 year old fifth formers in their charge. Technically it's terrible stuff, with Barbara Windsor's flying bra, laboured puns galore, peeping tomfoolery, punchlines visible two miles off, "comedy" incidental music and a reactionary denouement in which they chase off a bunch of hippies. Yet if you don't chuckle at least half a dozen times during this, however many times you've seen it, there's probably something wrong with you. --David Stubbs

Amazon.co.uk Review:
Made in 1969, Carry On Camping belongs to the Golden Years before the loveable double-entendres had been replaced by an almost nasty sleaziness. Pretty much everybody is present and correct, if not politically. Sid James is a likely-ish, if slightly elderly lad, persuading Joan Sims to join him at what he secretly expects to be a nudist colony. Terry Scott is a put-upon suburban, coerced into outdoor vacations by his ghastly, horsey-laughed wife, while Charles Hawtrey is the campest of campers who befriends them. Kenneth Williams, who alone makes this worth watching, is gloriously ridiculous as head of a girl's school, Chayste Place, with Hattie Jacques as Matron and Barbara Windsor as one of the 30-year-old fifth formers in their charge. Technically it's terrible stuff, with Barbara Windsor's flying bra, laboured puns galore, peeping tomfoolery, punchlines visible two miles off, "comedy" incidental music and a reactionary denouement in which they chase off a bunch of hippies. Yet if you don't chuckle at least half a dozen times during this, however many times you've seen it, there's probably something wrong with you. --David Stubbs

DVD Description:
Sid Boggle (Sid James) and his bumbling mate, Bernie Lugg (Bernard Bresslaw) hit on the idea of a nudist camp holiday to spice things up with their girlfriends. But for Sid the fun really starts when Dr. Soaper (Kenneth Williams), Headmaster of the Chayste Place Finishing School and his Matron, Miss Haggard (Hattie Jacques), arrive with a gaggle of nubile girls. Under the crooked eye of Joshua Fiddler (Peter Butterworth) the money-grabbing site proprietor, chaos follows confusion. There are goings-on after lights out, collapsing tents, a mix-up with a mad bull, panic in the washrooms and a rude awakening from a bunch of hippies. Prepare for an onslaught of robust breezy humour when the Carry On team take to the great outdoors.

Special Features:

Audio Commentary with Dilys Laye and Sandra Caron
Photo Gallery with captions
Theatrical trailer
Carry On Laughing: Orgy and Bess
Film Trivia notes
Collector’s booklet with star profiles
Running Time: 85 mins approx.

Synopsis:
In Carry On Camping [1968], the Carry On Boys try to spice up their girlfriends by taking them on an outdoor vacation... at a nudist camp. Temptation is placed in front of them with the arrival of Dr. Soaper and the young girls from the Chayste Place Finishing School. Before long the campsite is the scene of the usual Carry On chaos.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Carry on camping
this film isn't exactly what i would call a real classic. sure, it has all the usual actors but it doen't any humourous moments, like some of the other films in the series. The ending is just plain embarissing. it made me cringe.
watch this if you a fan.
My son adores this film, i haven't discovered why yet but i've been watching him very closely and i think that some of the scenes are a little to saturating for him to handle.

Rating:

- Technically ropey, but who cares, we love it
Okay so it's not an Ealing comedy, but for what it was, another in the series of formula 'camp' comedies by a well oiled machine that was the Carry On team, it is very good, one of the best. And I would hazard a guess and say it was most people's favourite. It certainly is my favourite, not least because nearly all the regulars are here: This must be the definitive Carry On cast. It's as though they've gathered together for one final fling as they sense the whole franchise may be on its last legs. And what better way to gather than to go on holiday, the British way, camping in the cold and wet. It's a very fair send up of British conservatism and unadventurousness, really, and actually ends up celebrating it, with the campers' successful expulsion ... Read More:

Rating:

- a real classic
carry on camping,1968,and the 17th carry on,is one of the most recognisable ones,up there with carry on doctor and abroad perhaps,carry on camping is a film that has never appeared old and the jokes are still more than capable of creating a smile across your face.
The film has the infamous scene where babs windsor,playing a schoolgirl despite being a lot older,where her bra flies off during exercise class,everyone knows that scene.
The story centres around sid james and bernie bresslaw,who decide they want to take their prissy girlfriends to a nudist camp,sid james is great here as a sleazy enough man who soon lusts after babs as he did in real life,the camp that they attend in the end isnt a nudist camp at all and other guests include ... Read More:

Rating:

- One of the cheekiest and funniest
Carry on camping straddles that happy period between the inventive but rather dull early carry ons and the overly crude and suggestive later films. Here we have just the right balance and we can happily chuckle at 50 something lad Sid James trying to get the 'green light' from 30 something school girl campers Barbara and co.

Rating:

- Still mildly amusing
The "Carry On" films are now almost quaint and nostalgic with their familiar combination of double-entendres, slapstick ,pretty girls and old bags. "Carry on Camping" is typical of the series and features most of the regulars getting up to mischief and naughtiness on a camp site. Sid James is the catalyst for most of the humour, but Terry Scott steals the show as a sex-starved whisky-guzzler reluctantly camping with his slightly deranged wife when he'd much rather be by the Med. Although it was a bit risque in its day, the absence of bad language, sex and violence makes "Carry on Camping" seem tame by todays standards.

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