Tuesday 24 May 2011

BFI SCREENING - LOST CARRY ON FILMS


From June 15th - 22nd the BFI will be screening a series of Carry On Films previously thought to be lost or destroyed.

CARRY ON RATIONING (1958)
Black marketeer Sid Knockers (Sid James) becomes embroiled in a scheme to forge green shield stamps.

CARRY ON VET (1962)
Animal doctors Sid Crumpet (Sid James) and Norbert Riddle (Kenneth Connor) accidentally breed a dog that can predict the future.

CARRY ON SPACE RACE (1968)
British astronaut Albert Peeing (Charles Hawtrey) attempts to reach the moon, beating American Tex Dallas (Sid James) and Russian Ivan Normous (Bernard Bresslaw).

CARRY ON, MAN (1969)
Hippie dropout Cedric Featherstone (Robin Asquith) puts LSD in the water supply of a suburban street, transforming the lives of Sid Banger (Sid James), wife Nora (Patsy Rowlands) and uptight neighbour George (Terry Scott) and resulting in a jaw-dropping orgy.

CARRY ON NOTHING (1978)
Glue-sniffing Sid Vicious (Sid James) attempts to destroy society.

CARRY ON YUPPIE (1985)
Besuited filofax-worshipper Gus Gecko (Peter Howitt) tries to develop a run-down estate, but residents Sid Grabber (Sid James), Trudy Truelove (Barbara Windsor), and Bert Silage (Peter Butterworth) have other ideas, as they swap his cocaine for laxative and frame him for insider trading.

CARRY ON INTERNET (2001) 
Dot com millionaire Sid Screwer (Sid James) invents a robotic woman (Jo Guest) but then goes bust and blows his brains out.

CARRY ON JIHAD (2010)
A terrorist cell lead by Sid Khan (Sid James) tries to blow up the houses of parliament. Directed by Chris Morris.

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