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4.0 out of 5 stars
Quality of video is very bad. Movie is great, September 5, 2001
It's a dumb movie but I love it. I have been insanely mad for these madcap British comedies since I first saw them in high school. A great repertoire of British actors round out the cast..Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, and Hattie Jacques to mention a few. The bad thing about this film is that it is a poor print and not transferred to cassette like its predecessor "Carry On Nurse." It looks like it was filmed with a camera aimed at a television screen while the movie was on. If you love the "Carry On" series it is probably worth the investment. However, the quality of film is a major disappointment
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3.0 out of 5 stars
VINTAGE CARRY ON, June 22, 2000
One of the early films in the series made at the end of the 1950's and shot in black and white. This is a simple comedy, reminiscent of the St.Trinians comedies that were around at the same time. The general plot is of a headmaster who wishes to transfer schools only when a group of school children overhear his plans they do everything they can to ensure he stays on due to his popularity with the pupils. So follows several comic misunderstandings and slapstick mayhem such as the staffs tea being laced with alcohol, superglue on chairs, doors that fall down when opened...predictable yes but good clean old fashioned stuff and is one of the better early entries in the series. This stars most of the familiar faces such as a very young looking Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Hattie Jaques, Charles Hawtrey and Kenneth Connor. A good comedy on the whole with a surprising touch of sentimentality at the end of the film. Calmer than a lot of the later entries and it does'nt 100% feel like a Carry On but then it could hardly be anything else!
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4.0 out of 5 stars
The Third Carry On Film, May 10, 2006
This review is from: Carry on Teacher [Region 2] (DVD)
Carry On Teacher was the third entry into the long-running British comedy film series and was an amusing one at that. The series was well underway having enjoyed International success with its predecessor, Carry On Nurse. This is a gentle, light-hearted comedy, distinctley reminiscent of the St. Trinians series. When a headmaster of a school decides to leave for a new post, the pupils do everything to sabotage his chances because of his firm popularity with them. Two school inspectors arrive, both with diverse ideas on discipline (Rosalind Knight and Leslie Phillips) to assess Mr. Wakefields (the headmaster - played by Ted Ray) progress with the school. And so cue all the predicatble slap stick mayhem such as the staff getting hopelessly drunk after the staffs tea is laced with alcohol, doors falling down when opened, superglue on chairs etc. Predictable yes, but good clean, old-fashioned fun that still manages to raise a smile. Amongst the cast are some of the familiar Carry On faces such as Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jaques (playing a ferocious, no-nonsense school mistress) and Kenneth Connor playing his usual bumbling, accident-prone self which became something of his trademark throughout the series. The ending has a surprising twist of sentimentality and although this entry could hardly be anything else but a Carry On film, it still is quite untypical of some of the later entries in the series.
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