So, I was due last autumn to do a tour of the Western Front battlefields and memorials with my wife and a well-known historian in tow, me driving, he giving us a guided tour. He and I were int he same year at school and I caught up with him last summer and he agreed to do it. The deal was I drove, paid for his accommodation and he and his wife would dine with us at various restaurants etc but there would be no fee beyond that. It sort of worked out. Anyway, sadly he some health issues and we had to postpone from the time of Remembrance day to later in the winter (Jan/Feb) then had to cancel the trip when he turned out to be being treated for cancer. He is ok but not up to doing this now.
My wife and I had a rethink. I said "I don't want to drive, run the itinerary, do anything that is not restful and I don't want to do it in the gloomy winter" so we rebooked a long weekend starting tomorrow. And we have signed up to a tour where they pick you up, drive you to Folkestone, get on a ferry not the Eurotunnel, then coach you round for 3 days with a guide and a dozen others. Total retro experience. Quite enjoying the prospect, but I cannot get the opening minutes of Carry on Abroad off my mind and will be giggling on the coach trying to work out who is who as they get on.
6m55s here Carry On Abroad (1972) Full Film | ITV Retro - YouTube
Costa Plonka
Iirc
Technical advisor Sun Tan Lo Tion
I think they were off to Ells Bells
Indeed.
I refer you to your eulogy on Cruising the other day.
This sounds like cruising. but with one toilet.
Sid James as Vic Flange...
Just got sidetracked by that for way too long. The country's most beautiful young women constantly throwing themselves at slightly out of shape middle aged men.
Just occurred to me that Bernard Bresslaw's character in these films is quite Neil-from-Inbetweeners.
Anyway, may your coach be full of frustrated stunning 20 somethings.
There were max 4 young women on the coach. Plus 30 guys.
Not great odds
In fact Wang it is a few short journeys. Taxi to meet a minibus at a services near the M25. Minibus to a ferry, minibus into Belgium. So no cruise-style ebola risk really.
Bernard Bresslaw's son was a partner at Simmons and Simmons. Fact.
I’m sure many of us grew up scarred in so many invisible ways from watching these films.
Said some sort of woke shrink.
Personally I couldn’t get enough of them.
Well fact me sideways.
Just stay away from the buffet on the ferry as it will have done more Channel crossings than I have.
I may play this 1970s style and bring a packed lunch, a thermos of coffee etc
Cor, you don't get many of those to the pound.
I think I am going to have to watch this on the way there. I was going to listen to grown up podcasts about WW1.
"In fact Wang it is a few short journeys. Taxi to meet a minibus at a services near the M25. Minibus to a ferry, minibus into Belgium. So no cruise-style ebola risk really. "
It's not the ebola risk my friend, it's the being trapped with "other people" thing
same business on a train or plane really
I shall spend a while taking in the bracing breeze on board HMS Vom.
Not really, no forced convo on a train unless you want to know precisely which porn your cabinmate is watching
By the end of the trip you'll be obliged to swap contact details and promise to go and visit Brenda and Bill even though they live in Inverness.
I shall make sure they do not invite us. I have ways.
Charles Hawtrey strongly reminds me of someone at the bar whom I shouldn't name
Really. That's quite an allegation.
I have ways.
As mentioned to Wango recently mutters, you could borrow from Ralph Fiennes' character in the scene deleted from the cinematic release of In Bruges when a random bloke on the train tries to engage him in conversation and say
If I wanted to talk to a cvnt I'd have sat in the part of the minibus marked 'For talking to cvnts'
Sometimes the Carry on films can be unnervingly accurate. Mrs Eeyore loves camping...
I do hope her laugh is better than that bandsaw
Buzz - I will save that one for deployment at the right moment.
These days it may be against some kind of law to watch the Carry on Films (which I always liked then and now - I even bought the boxed set on DVD at one point) on a bus, train or plane where someone might see your screen. No doubt the SRA's rule about what people can do in their private life in terms of posting on line etc even anonymously or some other woke left rule will apply too..... Perhaps even the dissemination of the link will bring the thought police down on us.
This might be the greatest comedy scene in any film in the entire history of cinema.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXtFQdvcp4o
that's a fabulous bit of writing and acting.
Victor Flange... Oh dear.
I used to watch these with my gran and grandad back in the 80s, but I don't remember this one. I see Babs has got her baps out from the off.
heh@I tried it once and didn't like it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q4l6o2fuDs
Marvellous, found the deleted scene from In Bruges
Eeyore - that picture is still making me smile. It's his expression. God I know that expression.
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These days it may be against some kind of law to watch the Carry on Films (which I always liked then and now - I even bought the boxed set on DVD at one point) on a bus, train or plane where someone might see your screen. No doubt the SRA's rule about what people can do in their private life in terms of posting on line etc even anonymously or some other woke left rule will apply too..... Perhaps even the dissemination of the link will bring the thought police down on us.
I don't think it's got that bad.
Gulp.
Heh, thought it would resonate. I could rewatch Terry Scott in that film over and over again. Cathartic.
He’s masterful
I can remember being taken to the cinema with my parents in the late 60s and my discomfort as one of the Barbara Windsor titillation scenes unfolded. I must have been wearing very tight trousers and I could only have been 6 or 7 but my brain was definitely telling me something I didn’t quite understand.
Charlie Muggins: Hello. What's a nice girl like you doing with an old cow?
Girl: I'm taking her to the bull.
Charlie: Oh, couldn't your father do that?
Girl: No, it has to be the bull.
pretty sure Carry on Abroad was filmed in the parking lot at Pinewood. Like a decade or so later when Duty Free got no further to the Med than ITV studios at Kirkstall, Leeds.
Thing is, alongside the Donald McGill stuff, of which poor Babs was the main victim, there was actually some cracking totty in those films.
Makes it even worse. From a teenager’s point of view.
Didn’t Mrs Torrance actually get them out in the final (proper) one?
Carry On Abroad features in the Morrissey video for “Every Day Is Like Sunday”.
OT but the YouTube unofficial mozz vids channel is a mine of treasure
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