7/10
Classic British comedy.
15 January 2018
It's the early sixties and jobs are tough to come by, enter Helping Hands, an agency that can fulfill any post.

These earliest carry on films seem like a totally different group of films to the latter offerings. Regardless is funny, charming and truly light hearted, there was an innocence to this earlier movies that was replaced with something more adult in later years, possibly more smutty.

There isn't a tight plot, it's very loose in a way, a series of sketches hang together before a mad cap slapstick ending. Every sketch had its moments, Kenneth Connor's sniggering at the gentleman's club is hilarious, as is a drunken Joan Sims. I wouldn't say there's a particular standout, but Stanley Unwind and Esma Cannon although being supporting characters provide great laughs. Liz Fraser is great, such a sensational beauty.
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