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The ''Carry On'' franchise primarily consists of a sequence of 31 low-budget British comedy motion pictures (1958–92), four Christmas specials, a television series of thirteen episodes, and three West End and provincial stage plays. The films' humour was in the British comic tradition of the music hall and bawdy seaside postcards. Producer Peter Rogers and director Gerald Thomas drew on a regular group of actors, the Carry On team, that included Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Peter Butterworth, Hattie Jacques, Terry Scott, Bernard Bresslaw, Barbara Windsor, Jack Douglas and Jim Dale. The ''Carry On'' series contains the largest number of films of any British series; and, next to the ''James Bond'' films, it is the second-longest continually running UK film series although with a fourteen-year break (1978–92). Anglo Amalgamated Film Distributors Ltd produced twelve films (1958–66), and the Rank Organisation made the remaining nineteen (1967–92). Producer Peter Rogers and director Gerald Thomas made all 31 films, usually on time and to a strict budget, and often employed the same crew. Between 1958 and 1992, the series employed seven writers, most often Norman Hudis (1958–62) and Talbot Rothwell (1963–74). In between the films, Rogers and Thomas produced four Christmas specials in 1969, 1970, 1972 and 1973, a thirteen episode television series in 1975 and various West End stage shows which later toured the regions. All the films were made at Pinewood Studios near Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire. Budgetary constraints meant that a large proportion of the location filming was undertaken close to the studios in and around south Buckinghamshire, including areas of Berkshire and Middlesex. However, by the late-1960s (at the height of the franchise's success) more ambitious plots occasionally necessitated locations further afield, which included Snowdonia National Park, Wales (with the foot of Mount Snowdon acting as the Khyber Pass in ''Carry On Up The Khyber''), and the beaches of the Sussex coast doubling as Saharan sand dunes in ''Carry On Follow That Camel''. It was announced in late October 2015, that there is plans for a new Carry-On film to be released in 2017. ==Background== "Carry On Sergeant" (1958) was about a group of recruits on National Service and was in keeping with its setting, the titular order commonly issued by army officers to their sergeants in the course of their routine duties. The film was sufficiently successful to inspire a similar venture, again focusing on an established and respected profession in "Carry On Teacher. When that too was successful further forays with "Carry On Nurse" and "Carry On Constable" established the series. This initial 'pattern' was broken with the fifth film in 1961,"Carry On Regardless". The remainder of the series developed with increased use of the British comic traditions of Music Hall and bawdy seaside postcards. Many titles parodied more serious films, such as their tongue-in-cheek homages to James Bond ("Carry On Spying") and Hammer Horror ("Carry On Screaming"). The most impressive of these was ''Carry On Cleo'' (1964), after the British-made Burton and Taylor epic ''Cleopatra'' (1963), where the budget-conscious Carry On team made full use of some impressive sets left over from that film. ("Carry On Emmanuelle", inspired by the infamous soft-porn "Emmanuelle", brought to an end the original straight 'run'.) The stock-in-trade of ''Carry On'' humour was innuendo and the sending-up of British institutions and customs, such as the National Health Service (''Nurse'', ''Doctor'', ''Again Doctor'', ''Matron''), the monarchy (''Henry''), the Empire (''Up the Khyber''), the armed forces (''Sergeant'') and the trade unions (''At Your Convenience'') as well as the Hammer horror film (''Screaming''), camping (''Camping''), foreigners (''Abroad''), beauty contests (''Girls''), and caravan holidays (''Behind'') among others. Although the films were very often panned by critics, they proved very popular with audiences.〔(TimesOnline: A 50th anniversary appreciation of the Carry On movie, 29 July 2008 ) 〕 A film had appeared in 1957 under the title ''Carry on Admiral''; although this was a comedy in similar vein (and even featured Joan Sims in the cast) it has no connection to the "''Carry On''" series itself. The much-earlier 1937 film ''Carry On London'' is also totally unrelated (though there is a link in that it starred future ''Carry On'' performer Eric Barker). The cast were poorly paid — around £5,000 per film for a principal performer.〔''Kenneth Williams Unseen'' by Wes Butters and Russell Davies, HarperCollins 2008〕 In his diaries, Kenneth Williams lamented this and criticised several of the movies despite his declared fondness for the series as a whole.〔''The Kenneth Williams Diaries'' edited by Russell Davies, HarperCollins 1993〕 Peter Rogers, the series' producer, acknowledged: "Kenneth was worth taking care of, because while he cost very little 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carry On (franchise)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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