Carry on Dick (1974) User Reviews (31)

The title says it all

[Leofwine_draca · 5/10 · 1 September 2015]

CARRY ON DICK is one of the last in the long-running series and indeed the last proper CARRY ON film to feature the likes of Sid James, Barbara Windsor, and many others of the core team. It's also a last gasp for their historical romps (the previous of which was CARRY ON HENRY), and it's as low brow and crude as the title would suggest.

It's a shame to see that the scripts by this stage had become so puerile because the cast were clearly still game for a laugh and you get a feeling of wasted talent. James is as irresistible as ever, playing a DOCTOR SYN-style figure masquerading as a clergyman by day and acting the highwayman by night, and there are fairly substantial roles for Bernard Bresslaw and an on-form Barbara Windsor. Sad then that about halfway through you realise the script is a complete rip-off of the earlier CARRY ON DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD, only inferior in every respect.

It's been said that writer Talbot Rothwell had a breakdown while authoring the script for CARRY ON DICK, which would understandably be his last film for the franchise, and his paucity of imagination is more than evident. There are tired phallic jokes galore, along with one raunchy scene following another. Only a few moments offer genuine laughs, but it's nevertheless a treat to see the pros going through the old routines one last time.

What a good Carry On

[paul-johnson107 · 7/10 · 22 January 2006]

Well what a good Carry On Film for Sid James, Barbara Windsor and Hattie Jacques to retire from the series on.

The Carry On team produced some great historical comedies but this was the one for me personally. Sid James was made for the part of Dick Turpin/Reverend Flasher. Usual cast together for one last time, Kenneth Williams and Kenneth Connor, Bernard Bresslaw. the whole gang.

What a good idea to do a historical comedy set around Dick Turpin, one of England's most notorious highwaymen of the 16th century. The Carry on Gang have done the series proud. In his last carry on appearance Sid James still manages to steal the film as his character. LAST OF THE GREAT CARRY ONS! The series began to decline after this one, one reason NO SID James!

'I'm a silly old constable, sir'.

[BA_Harrison · 7/10 · 29 July 2013]

The Carry Ons had been getting progressively ruder as the years passed, but this line of dialogue from Carry On Dick, the last film to feature the 'classic' cast, still had me doing a double take. I couldn't remember it being quite so near the knuckle. But as undeniably coarse and unsophisticated as much of the humour is, and despite an over-reliance on Sid James trademark guffaws and saucy giggles from Babs Windsor, the gang's version of the story of Dick Turpin still succeeds in being a lot of delightfully un-PC fun.

If the idea of an ageing Sid James as dashing highwayman 'Big Dick' isn't silly enough for you, he's assisted by Peter Butterworth and Barbara Windsor, neither of whom would strike much terror into the the heart of even the most fearful of travellers. Tasked with catching the lovable masked rogues are Captain Desmond Fancey (Kenneth Williams) and Sergeant Jock Strapp, who have gained vital information about their quarry that might help them: Turpin has a distinguishing birthmark on his "insert suggestive sound effect here"...

Broad comedy, characters with daft names, innuendo, Barbara Windsor's top flying open, Joan Sims doing her French accent—it's all there, making this Historical romp predictable fare but entertaining nonetheless.

Perhaps the last funny carry on

[ilaurie · 9 February 2001]

This film is perhaps the last truly amusing one from the carry on stable. With Sid James in the title role as Dick Turpin the usual jokes are bound to surface "Have you seen dick" etc, etc.

However this Carry on is the last one to use all your favourites ie; Williams, Jaques, James etc.

A good movie for a sunday afternoon.

An Enjoyable Carry On

[crossbow0106 · 7/10 · 11 October 2008]

This is another Carry On film, with most of the actors from the best films in the series, like Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Barbara Windsor, Bernard Bresslaw etc. This story is about a group of masked highwaymen, with the leader being Richard Turpin (otherwise known as "Big Dick"-there are references to this throughout the film). The robberies have gotten to the point where Mr. Williams character goes undercover to find out who Dick really is. This film is good, not perfect, but with a great cast such as this, you can't miss. This was Sid James' last Carry On film and he is sorely missed, as he was a great comic talent. Of course, Joan Sims and Kenneth Williams also give their all, and they are always fun to watch also. Enjoy the foolishness, the sexual innuendos, the sharp one liners. If you like British comedy, you'll like this. Its not the best Carry On, but its fun, it makes you laugh, and thats as good of an endorsement as you'll ever need.

A historical account of Dick Turpin

[coltras35 · 6/10 · 17 July 2021]

Notorious highwayman Dick Turpin disguises himself as the Reverend Flasher to avoid detection and terrorises the countryside with his gang

Sid James plays Dick Turpin in his last Carry on, and he's surrounded by the usual team members, with the exception of Charles Hawtrey. It's got some good one liners and funny scenes, though some of jokes can be repetitive, and it lacks the sharpness and energy of the peak years. Still it's fun. With such a legendary cast and great direction, it would be hard to get a limp Carry on entry.

Not the cream of the cream, but still a worthy spoof!

[JohnHowardReid · 7/10 · 19 February 2013]

Although he has gained almost legendary fame, the highwayman, Dick Turpin (1706-1739), was not actually a romantic figure at all. Just a common thief, without scruples or mercy, who thoroughly deserved to be hanged – and was! However, this film has no relationship to the historical Dick Turpin at all. In fact, it is actually an amusing spoof of Walt Disney's 1963 version of Doctor Syn (starring Patrick McGoohan as the bogus vicar and George Cole as his sexton) – a fact that was not lost on the Disney Organization who managed to delay the movie's U.S.A. release for nearly six months. Sid James has a right royal time in both his characterizations (Dick and the vicar) and is enthusiastically assisted by the petite Barbara Windsor. Kenneth Williams is also in his element as the incompetent captain of the Bow Street Runners, and here he is ably assisted in idiocy by Jack Douglas who had small roles in a few earlier entries, but, given the opportunity, really rises to the occasion in this one. Joan Sims is also on hand with a company of delightful "birds"! All told, this colorful spoof is not half as amusing as Don't Lose Your Head. Too much time is wasted with James in his "serious" identity and Hattie Jacques is a bore – not her fault, it's a boring, superfluous and totally obvious role. Nevertheless, this film is still an absolutely must-see entry for Carry On fans.

Fun

[Rrrobert · 6/10 · 2 September 2018]

Fun Carry On with a good story and most of the team represented, and the last one that actually feels like a real Carry On.

Recent addition Jack Douglas, now upgraded to a main role, is great fun. His scenes with Kenneth Williams hilarious.

Some of the characters and situations are repeats from earlier films, but it is still entertaining.

Not one of the best Carry ons

[carollaw51-41-56256 · 4/10 · 8 April 2019]

This has to be one of my least favorite Carry Ons .The humor for me was lacking it really lacks the comical and charm of the previous Carry ons like Up The Khyber ,Cleo,Follow That Camel,Screaming,camping ,Cowboy etc these were all tongue in cheek comedies and were fairly innocent and they had memorable scripts and lines{ like I seem to have got a little plastered}from Khyber,and (Frying to night) Screaming. Carry on Dick to me goes all out for vulgarity and with the addition of some then known Page 3 girls it seems the writers couldnt come up with any original jokes so instead they chose to make this one into more of a sex comedy.It is however better than the last two Carry on England and Carry on Emanuel ,i didnt mind Carry on Behind as i found Elkie Sommer very good in that one which kind of saved it. But in this one i found Barbara Windsors crude laugh really over the top and irritating ,Hattie Jacques gives the impression on her face most of the time thats shes embarrassed to be in this film.Maby she was. And for me the most cringy part of the film is the scene where Joan Sims loses her bloomer support because Sid James has pulled her necklace off,so you then see her crouched in a toilet position ,This i found to be just awful and a cheap way of trying to raise some laughs.I suppose you could call it toilet humor The rest of the humor is pretty much the same all through the film. So if your like me and love the previous witty Carry ons then give this one a miss.

The last outing for the 'classic' Carry On cast

[Tweekums · 6/10 · 30 January 2012]

As time progressed the Carry On films tended to get more and more puerile with vulgarity replacing wit; this one, as its title suggests, contains more than its fair share of 'dick jokes' thankfully another generalisation about the Carry on films is that the historical ones tended to be funnier than the contemporary outings. Set in the 1750s this one tells the story of Captain Desmond Fancey's attempts to apprehend the notorious highwayman Dick Turpin. Turpin's crimes all take place near the villages of Upper and Lower Dentures so he heads there with his sergeant. Not knowing what Turpin looks like they wish to remain incognito and inform nobody but the local rector or their true identity… of course the rector is none other then Dick Turpin! In the course of their investigations they learn that Turpin has an unusual birthmark but its location, which isn't hard to guess, means the sergeant ends up following anybody heading to the pub's gents for a quick examination! Turpin is keen to be rid of the two London policemen so manages to trick them into getting arrested for his crimes by the local constable… unfortunately he writes to London to inform them of 'Turpin's' arrest so the real Turpin must come up with another plan.

I was quite surprised at some of the film's content as I didn't expect to hear so many dick jokes or to see Barbara Windsor in a see through top on Sunday afternoon television! While there were a few too many such jokes some earned a snigger and there were quite a few more wholesome laughs. It also helped that there was a decent story and the fact that nearly all the Carry On team were present and on top form. Sid James was great as Turpin/Reverend Flasher as was Kenneth Williams as Capt. Fancey. Other regulars present included the aforementioned Barbara Windsor, Hattie Jacques, Joan Sim and Kenneth Connor although the last of these had certainly slipped in the rankings; being reduced to the small role of the local constable rather than being one of the top names he was in the earlier films. The only character I wasn't amused by was Jack Douglas's Sgt. Jock Strapp although I'm not sure if that is down to the acting or just the character. If you are a fan of the Carry On series this is worth watching just don't expect the innocence of the earlier outings.

"I'm a silly old constable...."Muttered aside by Mr K.Connor.

[ianlouisiana · 8/10 · 6 December 2007]

Certainly it's vulgar,perhaps even crude,but it's a "Carry On" and vulgarity is what they do.Thirty years ago we laughed innocently at large - bosomed ladies of doubtful provenance,outrageous double entendres and sexually ambivalent blokes.Now we daren't.Only in the privacy of our own homes with a DVD virtually in a plain wrapper do we feel free to enjoy what is basically a continuation of the Music Hall tradition of unsophisticated working - class humour.Cerebral it isn't. If you're looking for cerebral jokes find yourself a funny brain surgeon. What you get with "Carry on Dick" is a brilliant late - flowering example of the canon.It is Low Humour,certainly,but it's very funny Low Humour.Mr K.Connor is outstanding as the constable,Mr S.James and Mr P. Butterworth Drag up,Mr K.Williams howls very satisfactorily and Miss B. Windsor allows us a rare glimpse of her nipples before dissolving into a fit of giggles. Before the Thought Police kick down my door because I prefer honest vulgarity to endless streams of f - dash from Russell Brand and Billy f - dashing Connolly I proclaim that "Carry on Dick" is a very funny film and it will make you laugh out loud.Don't let anybody tell you different.

A bawdy film for a bawdy age

[bkoganbing · 6/10 · 18 November 2014]

Borrowing more from the classic George Arliss film Doctor Syn than from the legendary British outlaw Dick Turpin, Carry On Dick has Sid James as Turpin who disguises his himself as the outwardly pious, but randy parson in the English countryside. His exploits in his trade and conquests of womanhood have made him a legend and the government of George III was to put a stop to him.

So who else would you send than Kenneth Williams together with his trusty aide Jack Douglas out to catch him. But James is a wily old fox of an outlaw and who could conceive of the local man of God being the head of outlaws. Naturally Williams looks for local allies and who better than the local parson James to help in his quest for the notorious outlaw.

As we well know the 16th and 17th centuries in Great Britain were one bawdy age the Carry On troupe is certainly bawdy enough to match it. Joan Sims is a riot as the head of a group of struggling French actresses stranded in that part of the world. Great Britain and France were not getting along particularly well at the time, but Sims and her girls speak a universal language to those who listen.

This was Sid James's farewell big screen appearance, the cap of a grand career that started in British music hall. The Carry On films tried to Carry On after he died, but it was definitely no go, they certainly didn't Carry on.

James is the center of this film as well it should be.

Carry On Dick

[CinemaSerf · 5/10 · 23 July 2023]

To be honest, I struggled with this a bit. It all centres on "Capt. Fancey" (Kenneth Williams) on the hunt for the legendary highwayman "Dick Turpin" - aka "Big Dick". Sadly, that's about the level of the rather crass and banal humour that pervades the rest of this pretty mediocre costume drama. The more "Carry On" films I watch, the more I do realise just how much Joan Sims contributed and here she shines as "Madame Desirée", but the rest of the cast seem content to take us down a rather childishly written path of stereotypes and slapstick and through a story that is a poor relation of "Doctor Syn" (1937). This franchise is reaching it's end now, the originality and playful humour of those made ten years ago has been replaced by an almost bawdy form of in-your-face comedy that really isn't anyone's finest work. Sorry, but I thought that this was quite poor.

Lacks the material and is pretty disappointing as a result

[bob the moo · 11 October 2005]

England is rife with lawlessness and highway robbers but the Bow Street Runners are on the case – using all manner of traps and tricks to round the criminals up. However one robber has evaded captured and succeeded in even giving Sir Roger Daley a bloody nose in front of his own men. Thus Captain Fancey is assigned to go undercover and catch the famous Dick Turpin and bring him to justice. However the cunning Dick is not going to be caught that easily and for years has moved incognito under the alias Rev Flasher.

Although the better entries in the Carry On series tend to be the costume spoofs, this is not one of them. The story is a reasonable stab at having a frame for the jokes to roughly hang within but the problem is that the material just isn't there to deliver the goods. The humour will appeal to some because it is broad and the usual double-entendre stuff but for me it was lacking in any wit or intelligence and just felt like someone had collected up all the rejected gags from other films and put them together in a script of sorts. So, yes, some of it is funny but mostly it is uninspired and far from being the series at its best.

A lot of it seems to rely on the actors being a draw in themselves and it shows because most of them force their personalities forward in place of good material. James is the most obviously guilty of this as he overdoes his trademark laugh and is larger than the character. Windsor likewise just trades on her body and giggle; Williams is so-so but cannot raise the poor material he is handed and he can't rely on Jack Douglas for any help. Bresslaw at least gets a different role from his usual ethnic face-paint stuff but Jacques, Connor and Sims all seem stuck with nothing to do in minor roles. They all appear to be trying but none of them can make the material more than it is – lacklustre.

Overall this is a broad and crude affair that might please some Carry On fans but will be far too basic to be of interest to the majority of viewers. The cast are all trying hard but really the material isn't there for them to work with and the whole thing ends up being disappointing even by the standards of Carry On movies.

Sid James last role in the Carry on Films

[RogerMooreTheBestBond · 6/10 · 30 June 2009]

Sid James plays Dick Turbin in his final appearance in the Carry On films. He plays a bandit whose robs people in England in the the year 1750. Kenneth Williams is in charge of catching him. Bernard Bresselaw plays Sir Roger Daley and he basically is Kenneth's boss and keeps the pressure on him to capture Sid. Sid James also plays Reverend Flasher. Kenneth talks with him about his plan to stake out The Old Cock Inn, where the crooks usually hang out. This movie has too many dirty references to a man's privates for my taste. I enjoy the earlier films more because they were more tame. I did not care for the portrayal of the Reverend. It's not funny to make dirty jokes in a church or anywhere else for that matter. Carry on Columbus had a real stupid scene with church members in black Klan outfits. I still enjoyed Sid James as a bandit and he was sorely missed after this.

I wouldn't fancy a poke with that.

[hitchcockthelegend · 7/10 · 15 August 2015]

The 26th film of the series, Carry on Dick marked the end of an era for a number of reasons. It would be the last appearance of Sid James, Hattie Jaques and Barbara Windsor, and the last to be scripted by Talbot Rothwell. As the title suggests, by this time the series had gone fully into innuendo mode, here they take the Dick Turpin legend and cloak it with sexual nudge nudges and wink winks. Character names are a riot, Reverend Flasher - Big Dick - Desmond Fancey (AKA: Dandy Desmond), Jock Strapp and Constable (ooh-err, it's all about the pronunciation - the rascals), thus it's all very low-brow for sure.

It's great to have Sid James in a period set dual role again (as in Don't Lose Your Head), he's nicely restrained as Reverend Flasher and on the other side he's all throaty laughs and cheek as the randy dandy highwayman, Big Dick! Playing the usual sexy foil to James is Windsor in one of her more meaty roles in the series, though Peter Butterworth and Kenneth Connor are not given nearly enough material to make a telling mark. Great to see Kenny Williams given some pompous caricature to get his teeth into, even if - unlike James' characters, this double act with Jack Douglas does feel like a lazy retread from Carry on Don't Lose Your Head.

Carry On Behind would follow this one, a decent enough film that with hindsight should have been the closure for the series. Carry on Dick tried to keep the rompy end up (ooh-err) for the series, a last hurrah grasping onto the historical/period pictures that proved so popular in the previous decade. It's not a fitting farewell for some major players, but some great gags and spirited performances ensure it doesn't disgrace itself in the eyes of the fans who liked a bit of sauce with their "Carry On" sandwich. 7/10

I agree it is not the best of the Carry Ons, but it was the last entertaining one

[TheLittleSongbird · 7/10 · 14 September 2010]

I love the Carry On movies, and while I as I've said I do agree this is not one of their best, it is the last entertaining Carry On film. The story is thin and there are a lot of innuendos and some of them are very smutty. But with the costumes and sets and such as good as they are, the film looks really good, and the music is quirky and energetic. The script is funny and well delivered on the whole, while the film is well paced. Carry on Dick is probably chiefly memorable for being Sidney James's last Carry On. He is very good as Turpin/Reverend Flasher, if occasionally overdoing it with his trademark laugh. He is well supported by Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jaques, but Barbara Windsor gives one of her best performances and even Jack Douglas is good. In conclusion, entertaining I think, and on a side note it wasn't the same when Talbot Rothwell left and James died, the writing became crass and most of the entries then were woeful I felt. 7/10 for Carry on Dick. Bethany Cox

Carry On No. 26

[michaelarmer · 6/10 · 6 May 2020]

According to some this is the last of the better Carry On's because it was the last of the main writer Talbot Rothwell and 3 of the main cast, Sid James, Hattie Jacques and Barbara Windsor, it wasn't, it was an average one, the last good one was .....Abroad' and that was down on ..... At Your Convenience'. This was a poor reflection of those.

The screenplay looked tired and lacking, most of the scenes were a bit dreary, photography was poor, I got the feeling that they did think this was going to be the last, but they went round again a few more times, a few too many, 'Carry on Abroad' should have been the last.

Sid James, Barbara Windsor and Hattie did do their last film, however not their last Carry On's, Sid & Hattie appeared in the 'Carry on Laughing' TV series in 1975, and Babs co-presented 'That's A Carry On' in 1978 (with Ken Williams), which was a 'film' where Babs and Ken were in the projection room of a cinema showing and commenting on clips from the proper films, so not a true film.

Sid did 19 Films, 4 spin-off films and 3 Christmas TV movies, 26 all together, as well as the TV series in 1975, the year before he died, he was on stage (not a carry on) when he had a heart attack in 1976, he passed away aged 62. Hattie was in the first 'Carry on Sergeant', she did 14 films, 1 spin-of film and 2 Christmas TV movies, 17 all together, her last was 'Carry on Laughing' the TV series in 1975,apart from a couple of films, she was successful in 'Sykes' the TV series with Eric Sykes 1972-1979,but sadly she also passed away from a heart attack in 1980 aged 58. Babs only did 9 proper Carry On's, 3 Xmas TV movies, The TV series and the compilation film, but she was very prominent in most. She has done lots more since, her last was in 2017, a TV movie 'Babs' about her own life in which she appeared as herself, and she is still with us, aged 82.

Another semi-regular who did her last was Margaret Nolan, she did 6, starting with 'Carry on Cowboy', she retired from acting in 1983 (although she came back for one role in 2011) and is also still with us, now aged 76. Patrick Durkin is a bit part actor, who you may not have heard of, he also did his last, he was in the first and did 6 and one of the spin -offs, he retired in 1998 and passed away in 2009 aged 73.

The other regulars to feature were Ken Williams, Bernard Bresslaw, Joan Sims, Ken Connor, Peter Butterworth, Patsy Rowlands and Bill Maynard,. Of the bit-part actors, were John Clive, Marianne Stone, Billy Cornelius, Michael Nightingale, Brian Osborne and the awful Jack Douglas. The celebrated actor David Lodge was also in it, and Jeremy Connor, the son of Ken Connor, who did a few.

Mind you, after saying what I have it was not the worst so far, there was less of the sex jinks, and more dialogue, but it all looked as if it was the Sunday morning after the Saturday night before. There was worse to come.

My least favourite of the series so far

[jimbo-53-186511 · 4/10 · 30 April 2023]

Notorious highwayman Dick Turpin also known as "Big Dick" is terrorising the residents of Upper Dencher. Captain Fancey and Segreant Strapp are tasked with bringing the infamous and feared highwayman in. They turn to the reverend Flasher for help completely unaware of who he is and what he gets up to away from the church...

Carry On Dick begins well with a series of clips showing copycat crimes from Turpin contemporaries then an amusing opening scene featuring Dick, his gang, Fancey, Strapp and Madame Desiree and "her birds." Sadly, for me, this film didn't manage to keep up the momentum that it was initially building up...

I personally thought that there was not enough of Dick Turpin and his crews escapades and too much time was spent on the clueless Fancey and Strapp trying to work out his identity; whilst this is necessary to the plot I would have liked to see more of Turpin terrorising the town as this would have undoubtedly made the film funnier and definitely would have made it more involving. A good chunk of the screen time revolves around Strapp trying to identify Turpin by the birth mark on his 'diddler' - a weak joke that was overused and stretched way too thin. Joan Sims has been great in other Carry on films, but her character was not all that funny and I didn't understand the act involving her and "oiseaux des paradis." (apologies if I've spelt that wrong). The joke involving Sir Roger Daley and his missus having their clothes stolen was funny the first time, but is repeated several times over with different people (Talbot Rothwell is usually reliable when it comes to a good screenplay so I'm surprised by his lack of imagination with this film).

It's not all bad though most of the cast are on good form; thought Bernard Bresslaw was terrific and Williams and James were both good, but this is comfortable territory for them at this stage in the franchise. I thought everyone else did fine work though I didn't feel that Jack Douglas added much to the film truth be told.

There are some laughs to be had here, but to be perfectly honest this is the first Carry on film that I've seen thus far where I found myself checking the time now and again, and it has to be said the 90 minutes here felt longer than it did in other more enjoyable films that the franchise has had to offer.

Not terrible by any means, but disappointing when compared to many of its predecessors.

HONOURABLE MENTION: Margaret Nolan's cleavage.

Richard Turpin - more commonly referred to as Big Dick, owing to the unusual size of his weapon

[Hayden-86055 · 6/10 · 17 January 2021]

The last of the historical Carry on films and one of the funniest and silliest. You can practically here the crew giggle every time someone mentions Big Dick, Kenneth Williams saying it is childish but hilarious. Apart from Carry on Behind this is the last good one in the series.

6/10: Stars a lot of the regulars and has tastefully crude jokes

Carry On Dick

[jboothmillard · 4/10 · 1 August 2009]

The Carry On films rely almost entirely on innuendo with character names and titles, and this is one is I suppose memorable for it. Set in the 19th Century, this spoofs the story of highwayman Dick Turpin and his terrorising of the countryside around Upper Dencher robbing people in their carriages of all their riches, and clothes. 'Big Dick' Turpin (Sid James, in his final film of the series, before his death), aka Reverend Flasher, along with his assistants like Harriet (Barbara Windsor), is the only highwayman unable to be captured. Sir Roger Daley (Bernard Bresslaw) assigns Captain Desmond Fancey (Kenneth Williams) and Sergeant Jock Strapp (Jack Douglas) to put an end to Turpin's escapades. Captain Fancey doesn't for one minute believe Reverand Flasher, helping them, could be Turpin, so of course he, the Sergeant and the Constable (Kenneth Connor) aren't getting anywhere. Also starring Hattie Jacques as Martha Hoggett, Joan Sims as Madame Desirée, Peter Butterworth as Tom 'Doc' Scholl, Patsy Rowlands as Mrs. Giles and Bill Maynard as Bodkin. Some of the dialogue was funny, but not much of the sight gags were that funny, but at least the cast are still pretty reliable. Okay!

This the best carry on ever!

[m_pratt · 10/10 · 18 November 2006]

This carry on is a great carry on!. The actors are great. Most of the gang are here except Charles Hawtrey who got the boot after Abroad. Patsy Rowland's is underused which is a great shame as is Bill Maynard they have both got good talent. Sid Jame's is just as good as ever in his final carry on. Barbara Windsor is great as Harriet, as is Hatttie Jacques.Jack Douglas and Kenneth William's are great this film is the last true carry on film behind wasn't the same. This was good clean fun the last 3 England Behind and Emmanuelle resort to nudity to get laughs this had the talent the actors and the script its go the lot. This one and Cleo are the best Historical ones!. After this they where never the same!..

A mess...

[markovd111 · 5/10 · 11 March 2022]

Filled to the brim with uninspired sexual innuendos and lame jokes, "Carry on Dick" is a far cry from two years prior "Carry on Abroad" which also had it's share of problems, but still managed to be hilarious because of some genius performances. Kenneth Williams and Jack Douglas are awful, uninspired and over the top in a wrong way and are really bad main characters, while almost every appearance of Sid James is unfunny and focused on sexual jokes. Kenneth Connor is present in the movie but is criminally underused. All in all, "Carry on Dick" is a bad comedy movie with very little funny moments in it and you will feel glad once it ends. 5/10! I don't really recommend it to anyone other than to the fans of the series.

The last of the true Carry Ons

[davidlloyd38 · 20 August 2003]

I re-watched Carry On Dick on DVD today. I usually agree that this film is a bit of a hit and miss, but i think now that is it very good, up there with Carry On Henry for historicals, not Cleo though.

Sid James is looking older, but he can still pull it off. Critics may say that James was too old to be lusting after someone of Barbara Windsor's age, but the situation the characters are put in, (two highway man/women), you can believe this girl would have a relationship with the elder man because of the work they do together. So i think they work well together in this film.

This is the only film i can think of in the series that starts of pretty dull then gets funnier towards the middle and end. Very good ending with Hattie Jacques on the organ, pumping for all she's worth.

Kenneth Williams and Jack Douglas have good chemistry, but it's really just the same characters Williams and Peter Butterworth played in Don't Lose Your Head. The premise of the film is very similar!

As for the rest of the cast, Peter Butterworth shines in the drag sequence as he ogles over Joan Sims' bosoms. Ms Sims doesn't get much to do, but she's always funny and my favourite of the team. Kenneth Connor is excellent as the ageing Constable, such a great character actor. And Hattie Jacques excells as Miss Hoggett, the nosey housekeeper. Very good in the sequence where she is listening at the door.

The Carry Ons never felt the same after Talbot Rothwell left. There was something no quite right about Behind, England, Emmannuelle or Columbus. I don't think anyone could recapture his style, he was born to write Carry On humour.

The team was also breaking up at this point. Obviously the style was getting tired, and in reality, Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas should have called it a day after this one. The one's that followed were good in places, but never hit the mark.

Aggressively average edition to the franchise

[comedyfan71 · 5/10 · 7 April 2024]

This film appears to be heavily influenced by Carry on Don't Lose Your Head, as it is similar in a number of aspects but with slight tweaks. To me, at least, it appears that Sid James was beginning to lose his touch here. He died two years later, this was his final role in the Carry Ons and he isn't as convincing here as he usually was in previous instalments. Kenneth Williams is fine but is given barely anything to do. Joan Sims is good in her role though. Bernard Bresslaw also gives a solid performance though he's underused. The script is pretty weak and there's a surprisingly high amount of jokes about, well, the title gives you a clue. There's some good individual gags here and there but it's mostly rather unfunny with weak dialogue. I think it could have been better than what it was but it's watchable at least.