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1959 Certificate PG
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Sidney James (in his first Carry On role) heads up the cast in this wacky take on law and order. This sorry lot of boys in blue can't seem to get anything right. CARRY ON CONSTABLE also features Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, and Shirley Eaton. Read more

Starring Sid James, Eric Barker, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey
Director Gerald Thomas
Genres Comedy

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Carry On Constable

Sidney James (in his first Carry On role) heads up the cast in this wacky take on law and order. This sorry lot of boys in blue can't seem to get anything right. CARRY ON CONSTABLE also features Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, and Shirley Eaton.

Starring Sid James, Eric Barker, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques, hattie Jacques, Leslie Phillips
Director Gerald Thomas
Studio WARNER HOME VIDEO
Run time DVD: 1 hr 23 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Genres Comedy
Language DVD: English
Subtitles DVD: None
Released DVD: 27 Aug 2001
Production year: 1959
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (2) of Carry On Constable

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    The fourth in the Carry On series is the first to feature the excellent Sid James, who stars here as the sergeant detailed to wet nurse rookies Kenneth Williams, Leslie Phillips, Charles Hawtrey and Kenneth Connor. Having studied the policeman's lot at Slough, screenwriter Norman Hudis confessed he could find nothing funny about pounding the beat, but he still turned in a chucklesome script. The bungling bobbies have their moments, notably when Williams and Hawtrey don skirts to trap some shoplifters, but their thunder is stolen by seasoned supports Joan Hickson, Irene Handl and Esma Cannon, inevitably playing their usual eccentrics.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006
  • 1 stars out of 4

    In part a parody of the popular TV series Dixon of Dock Green and moderately amusing despite the absence of a plot.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

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  • 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Saw it years ago - enjoyable today.

    This set the scene for the 'Carry Ons' of later years. As one reviewer mentions - the B&W filming makes it all the more relevant to the time - a more simple one - that it was portraying. Good fun, plenty of laughs - at things that are genuinely funny, not what so often passes as funny these days - and one to be watched at regular interludes: a tonic on DVD.

      • les reed from east London UK
      • Posted 01 May 2007 14:10

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  • Rated - 3 stars

    Carry On Constable

    This black & white film is good family fun.

      • A customer from England
      • Posted 30 Dec 2005 12:11

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      Sidney James (in his first Carry On role) heads up the cast in this wacky take on law and order. This sorry lot of boys in blue can't seem to get anything right. CARRY ON CONSTABLE also features Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, and Shirley Eaton....