Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

BA_Harrison With James Bond proving a smash at the box office, it wasn't long before the Carry On team cashed in on the spy craze by spoofing the exotic world of international espionage. Their 1964 effort, Carry On Spying, sees Kenneth Williams as inept spy Simkins, who is sent to Vienna with three trainee agents (played by Bernard Cribbins, Charles Hawtree and Barbara Windsor) to try and retrieve a top secret formula that has been stolen by criminal organisation S.T.E.N.C.H.The spy genre provides plenty of material for the gang to parody, and the gags come thick and fast (fnarr fnarr!), with the usual mix of innuendo and slapstick proving to be a lot of fun. Babs Windsor, in particular, is a revelation: in her very first role in a Carry On film, she steals the show with her infectious combination of wide-eyed innocence and unique sex appeal and gets some of the biggest laughs, her finest moment being a hilarious scene where she is unsuccessfully interrogated by Dr. Crow (Judith Furse), head of S.T.E.N.C.H.After much crazy shenanigans, including a trip to Algiers where Windsor and Cribbins don belly dancer disguises to infiltrate a harem (allowing for Babs to jiggle her bristols), the film winds things up in fine style with two fabulous set pieces, the first aboard a speeding steam train crawling with enemy agents (including Dilys Lane as sultry spy Lila), and the second taking place inside the villains' underground lair, where our quartet of brave but bumbling agents are chased by sexy gun-toting female agents in skin-tight outfits into an automation area where they narrowly escape being killed by numerous large pieces of machinery—not just once, but twice, when the system is put into reverse!Favourite gag: the British secret service's description of the enemy agent known as The Fat Man… He's male. And fat.

bkoganbing The James Bond series and the mania it started for espionage movies was perfect fodder for the Carry On troupe and their satire on such films. The fate of the world is now in the hands of Kenneth Williams and his trainee agents.They're all that's left that the United Kingdom has to face the coming of STENCH, the society for the total extermination of non-conforming humans. Chief Eric Barker has no one else but Williams to send out to find who stole a topic secret formula. Incidentally we never do find out just what this formula is and does.Williams and his backup crew consisting of Charles Hawtrey, Bernard Cribbins, Jim Dale, and Barbara Windsor. That's enough to lose hope for the free world. Between jokes about the lack of ability in Williams and comments about Windsor's ample bosom, two weapons of mass destruction that would be anyone's envy, you should get a lot of laughs.Note that zither playing when the team was in Vienna.

Ephraim Gadsby "Carry On Spying" is more than just a "Carry On." Like the previous entry in the series starring Bernard Cribbins ("Carry On Jack"), "Spying" is a good spoof of a film genre in its own right."Jack" had upped the "Carry On" ante, with non-"Carry On" actors outnumbering the usual "Carry On" team. It was also the first of the great movie spoofs in the "Carry On" tradition."Spying" -- coming on the heels of "Jack" -- is among the best spy spoofs ever.Kenneth Williams (using his "Hancock's Half Hour" snide voice throughout), Cribbins, Charles Hawtrey, and Barbara Windsor (in her first "Carry On") are inept agents sent out by "The Chief" (Eric Barker) to recover a formula.Also among the good guys are Jim Dale, as a James Bond type character (looking remarkably like a young Timothy Dalton) who is always being thwarted by his own colleagues.The sets are fantastic. There is the high-class restaurant where Williams and Cribbins are in black tie and Hawtry is in the clothes of a cycling racer. There's the "Vienna" set (actually a sound-stage at Pinewood) so reminiscent of "The Third Man" one almost expects to see Orson Welles lurking in the shadows (he isn't, worse luck). The have a cross-country train like that where so many espionage thrillers have taken place, and which gives one the feeling of constant, claustrophobic movement despite being stage-bound. They wonderfully capture the spirit of the Casbah in a scene with Eric Pohlmann, who was in several episodes of "Danger Man." And there are the space-age corridors of the underground hide-out of the bad guy, with the futuristic, slightly off-kilter oblong doors.The timing of the film could not have been better. Made after "Dr. No" and contemporaneous with "From Russia With Love" (which also had an exciting train sequence), "Spying" came out just as James Bond was prepared to explode with "Goldfinger." Because of its black-and-white photography it really seems closer in spirit to the great television show "Danger Man" -- though the Vienna scenes could have been cut out of "The Third Man." It's hard to believe Michael Caine's "Harry Palmer" movies were released after "Carry On Spying." "Carry On" movies were always at their best with spoofs of specific movie genres. "Carry On Spying" is one of the better entries in the series and can stand on its own as a remarkable spoof of espionage thrillers. Anyone who knows their espionage noir, or loves the "Carry On" spoofs, will dig this flick.

petersj-2 This is one of the funnier efforts by the team. Its obviously a send up of other movies of the genre and is shot in glorious black and white which sometimes I prefer. Black and white seems to suit the carry on movies. Life may indeed be in colour but these movies were never a depiction of life. The campery of Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtrey is as funny as ever. There are those two wonderfully reliable old British actors Eric Barker and the fabulous Richard Wattis as his assistant. It would be hard to find better actors to play the chief and his off sider. I loved the performance of Judith Furse.. hilariously butch.Bernard Cribbins is a great talent and he brings so much more to the series than the annoying Kenneth Connor did. This might have been the first with the great Barbara Windsor and what a spectacular career she had. She actually steals the film and I found myself roaring with laughter. Its a very good carry on but above all the introduction of one of Britains finest stars Magnificent Barbara Windsor. Barbara Windsor was much more than the sexy little bomb shell that added so much to these films and many others. She was a brilliant comedienne and I hope she gets the recognition she richly deserved. Her timing is brilliant.Yes its all very corny but all great comedy is corny. Its rather fun seeing their idea of modern technology,those mobile phones are fun. Wonder what they would think of what we use today. I love the cheap effects of the movie such as the car wash, rather not explain but its hilarious. Its great fun seeing one of Australias most loved exports, John Bluthall in the early stages of a great career.