TV Cream
Films: C is for…
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166Cage Aux Folles, La
Once taboo-breaking, now just shrill French “don’t tell the mother-in-law you’re gay, dad” farce whose reputation rocketed a few years back when...
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Cagney and Lacey
Eh? No colons? Why, it’s the original TVM! With Hotlips Swit instead of Gless. But no Detective LaGuardia, sadly, and we don’t...
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114
Calamity Jane
Doris Day is a-comin’ on over the hill once again as the eponymous title character in this tale of her running her...
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Caligula
Miraculously shoddy Penthouse production scripted by a highly embarrassed Gore Vidal and directed by pretentious schlockmeister and top polishing product Tinto Brass....
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120
Calling Bulldog Drummond
Cyril McNiele’s WWI captain turned two-fisted gumshoe has enjoyed more celluloid incarnations than most, from silent outings under the short-lived Astra-National banner,...
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141
Campbell’s Kingdom
Worth watching just to see Sid James play a Canadian. We shall now line up the other reasons to watch this film:...
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106
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
Urk!
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Can You Keep It Up For a Week?
This rotten sub-Confession is the unlikely product of an unholy alliance between Hazel ‘Crossroads’ Adair and Kent “grapple fans” Walton, in which...
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117
Candidate, The
Robert Redford partakes of some fear and loathing on the ’72 campaign trail in this great pseudo-doc satire, with backup from Peter...
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151
Candy
Oh dear, Richard Burton. And Marlon Brando, and Walter Matthau, and Charles Aznavour, and James Coburn… Most all the big names involved...
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149
Canterbury Tale, A
Magisterial wartime Archers semi-propagandist retelling of Chaucer – watch out for *that* falcon/spitfire shot that Kubrick purloined, and a young Charles Hawtrey,...
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Caprice
Top flight ’60s hairspray-based spying mish-mash, with Doris Day (in a variety of ‘swinging’ outfits and outsize round sunglasses – check) involved...
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Captain Horatio Hornblower
Gregory Peck here as Forrester’s schoolboy-amusingly-named naval hero coping manfully with the twin encumbrances of Napoleon’s fleet on his back and Richard...
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Captain Nemo and the Underwater City
Robert Ryan and Bill Fraser, together at last! There’s a distinct Saturday night serial flavour about this we reckon, if only because...
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Captain Scarlett
No, it’s not *that* Captain Scarlet. It’s a bit ordinary this. Richard ‘Ian Symes’ Greene plays a French nobleman who comes back...
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122
Caravan to Vaccares
The balance of world power hinges on the life of a single, mysterious refugee (it says here). It’s up to Charlotte Rampling...
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114
Card, The
One of the more extraordinary things about this Alec Guinless feature, whereby his ineffectual and gormless character (Ho! Ho!) plans a five...
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Carey Treatment, The
Grisly Michael Crichton novel iffily adapted by Blake Edwards, with James Coburn meandering through the title role as a murder-solving doctor. As...
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135
Carlton-Browne of the FO
Peter Sellers and Terry-Thomas star in the same film and still it’s not very good! At least this lesser Boulting comedy of...
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149
Carnival of Souls
Nicked off an old Twilight Zone episode which in turn was nicked off old twisty chestnut An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge...
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113
Carrington VC
Tip-top Nivenfest with our David as a war hero landed in court for falling behind with his expenses and turning to crime....
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133
Carry On – Don’t Lose Your Head
Phase one of the doomed attempt by Rank to market the Carry Ons abroad, hence the detachable “Carry On” in the title....
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Carry On Abroad
HOT ZOOPS!
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Carry On Admiral
Sounds like a bona fide Carry On film, but this is a George ‘Our Girl Friday’ Minter production, under the aegis of...
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Carry On Again, Doctor
That telltale third word shows scenario inspiration was flagging, and sure enough there’s not much to distinguish this last of the hospital...
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Carry On at Your Convenience
Bad things in this: well, yes, the whole populist union-bashing rigmarole. (Historians argue this stymied the film at the box office, which...
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Carry On Behind
Talbot Rothwell packs it in to make way for Benny Hill writer Dave Freeman, who admittedly makes a pig’s ear of reheating...
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Carry On Cabby
Let's not pussyfoot about: the best of the Carry Ons.
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139
Carry On Camping
We hardly need to say anything about this one, really, do we? All that fishing line/green paint anecdotal business is part of...
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Carry On Cleo
“Evening, cock!” No surprise to see this touted as The Best of the Bunch, usually by the same people who bestowed that...
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119
Carry On Constable
A lesser ‘On, we feel, unless the prospect of Leslie Phillips’ bare arse excites you. The supporting cast are OK though, including...
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126
Carry On Cowboy
This western-set mid-period may have Kenneth Williams’ favourite of the series, but it’s a pretty tame affair, with only Charles Hawtrey as...
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132
Carry On Cruising
The always likeable (and first ever in colour) nautical romp with Sid James captaining his last cruise with no Aberdeen Angus and...
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Carry On Dick
A lesser-shown ‘On, with extra-curricular turns from Patsy Rowlands, Bill Maynard, Sam Kelly and Nosher Powell. Fans will be pleased to know...
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133
Carry On Doctor
‘Too much Jim Dale’ is the most searing criticism we can make of this first-of-the-medical-ones-in-colour but in mitigation it does have bags...
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140
Carry On Emmanuelle
Utter crap, lacking both the charm (we use the term relatively) of the Confessions films it was intended to rival, and the...
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Carry On England
Nearly the last, and almost certainly the least of the ‘Ons (…Columbus, needless to say, doesn’t count at all). Kenneth Connor (Captain...
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Carry On Girls
It’s the one with the beauty show as Sid James cajoles the Frinton-on-Sea council into staging their own event to boost tourism in...
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Carry On Henry
Is it just us, or is Sid ‘n’ Babs’ flirting one of the more tiresome aspects of the mid-period ‘Ons? And this...
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Carry On Jack
More and more, we find ourselves preferring the earlier ‘Ons, before the Team As We Know Them became consolidated, and this entry...
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Carry On London
The working title of the hopefully long-aborted Carry On revival film with Brian Conley of course, but this exists as a short...
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128
Carry On Loving
Straight off the bat one is inclined to recall this as being not amongst the best in show as Carry On’s go...
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Carry On Matron
Another hospitalised ‘On, another chance to see the Jacques/Williams/Hawtrey medical triumvirate. To distinguish from the …Doctors and …Nurse, this is the one...
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Carry On Nurse
“It’s matron’s round!” “Mine’s a pint!” Following on from ‘Sergeant, this first of the hospitalised ‘Ons is top stuff, with Hattie’s first...
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Carry On Pickpocket
For some reason, loads of light-hearted oriental action comedy fare seems to get marketed over here with the C-O prefix – Carry...
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Carry On Regardless
The terrific Stanley ‘Catherine of Arabold’ Unwin plays a landlord in this odd, bitty ‘On prompting us to start wishing for a...
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139
Carry On Screaming!
“Frying tonight!” Often cited as the best of the lot, but while it’s certainly up there, there’s the odd early entry we...
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128
Carry On Sergeant
The first ever instalment, of course, which means that a) it’s all in black and white, b) it’s all about doing national...
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Carry On Sergeant
Oh, yes indeed. Directed and written by Surname of the Century competition winner Bruce Bairnsfather, who fought in both World Wars (witnessing...
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Carry On Spying
The Carry On Federation, or whatever they call themselves this week, rate this as one of the better of the black-and-whiters, though...