Carry On Camping

I have seen this film many times over the years and it still never fails to have me in stitches, a real classic!

Carry On Camping is a truly classic film from the carry on crew and often considered the best in the series and is certainly the best known of them all. A great film with a certain innocence that you only get with a carry on film and full to the brim with double entendres which make it a film for all the family.

Ooh Matron! Camp is the word for this seventeenth of the Carry on films made in 1969. Like a saucy postcard made into a film it focuses initially on the lusty but sex starved Sid Boggle (Sid James) and his mate (Bernard Bresslaw) as they attempt to get their prudish girlfriends to try out the paradise nudist camp for their holidays. A mix up occurs and they go to the wrong camp site but having paid their fees decide to stay. Other campers soon catch their attention especially the nubile pupils from 'Chayste Place' girls school led by the blonde and busty Barbra Windsor who despite being well into her thirties when the film was made, manages to pull off the role of a schoolgirl, her high spot coming in the now iconic aerobics scene where she bursts out of her bra which flies in the face of the snooty headmaster Dr Soaper (Kenneth Williams). All sorts of the usual shinanegans ensue throughout, there is little or no actual plot and the film is peppered with double entendres, and bawdy jokes as it reaches it's climax where a band of hippies set up camp in an adjoining field and the campers attempt to move them on. Despite the lack of plot it is still a good film with plenty of chuckles to be had, the characters are more than just stereotyped they are almost caracatures with the bosomy matron (Hattie Jacques) snobbish and effeminate headmaster (Kenneth Williams) and all the usual cast including Joan Sims, Charles Hawtrey and Terry Scott. Dated now but still enjoyable nevertheless.