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I'm a dissenting voice in the crowd as I actually rather like this late entry in the Carry On series. In fact, I'd probably have it in my top 5 Carry Ons.

There were so many reasons why this entry should have been below par. The previous film in the series, Dick, saw the last appearances of Sid James, Barbara Windsor and Hatties Jacques (we'd already just lost Charles Hawtrey) and importantly this film was the first in a very long time not to have been scripted by master of the double-entendre, Talbot Rothwell. There were only three Carry Ons after this one, and they were all seriously bad. On paper, this is the film where it should have gone wrong, but instead what we have is a likable film full of Carry On humour. It feels like a natural sequel to Carry On Camping. It's a roughly 50:50 cast split between Carry On regulars (Williams, Sims, Bresslaw and Connor) and newcomers (Davies, Posta, Lavendar), and there's a guest star thrown in, Elke Sommer. I've never been a great fan of guests in Carry Ons as they inevitably don't 'fit in' with the crew (like them or loathe them, Ted Ray, Harry H Corbett, Phil Silvers and Frankie Howerd all kind of stood-out as not quite being in the Carry On mould). Elke, playing a Russian archaeologist, adds greatly to this film, and she gets quite a lot of the funny lines, mostly from her misinterpretation of English words.

Although I very much like this film it isn't without its faults. The plot is thinner than usual and the ending is poor (there isn't really a story to conclude at all). I'm not a prude, but there are blatant breasts on display; the Carry Ons always seemed better when they were more innocent. Technically the film is shoddy, with an awful lot of dialogue having been added after filming - at several points the cast speak without even having to move their lips! But there's plenty to enjoy here, cameos from Marianne Stone and David Lodge, a larger role than usual for Patsy Rowlands, music by Eric Rogers, and the English love of life in caravans and under canvas.

Heartily recommended, the last great Carry On.

Ah, c'mon..! We *know* it's not a patch on Carry on up the Khyber and Carry on Cleo but it's still fantastic in it's own rubbish way. The whole universe of cuckolded, horny husbands, shrewish wives and anaemic-looking dolly birds still makes me laugh my ass off every time.

You can see the gags coming from a thousand yards away and the plot's wafer thin but Kenneth Williams cackles like a champ, Kenneth Connor sleazes for England and Elke Sommer still looks fantastic in that cheeky suede skirt.

I grew up with the Carry On films and watching one is like opening a can of Instant Nostalgia. I studied archaeology at university and people always ask me if I was inspired by Indiana Jones. I've got a sneaky suspicion it was really Carry on Behind.

In the Carry On canon, this film is severely overlooked and considered by some to be a poor version of 'Camping', but there are many great moments which always raise a laugh with me. Mainly those concerning the antics of Kenneth Williams and Elke Sommer as his randy Russian accomplice Anna Vooshka.

After this, the Carry On's took a downward spiral, ending with Columbus but as a last great helping of saucy fun, this one works!! Kenneth Williams is on top form and despite the lack of Sid, Babs, etc this films has plenty of great cast members including Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw, Peter Butterworth, Kenneth Connor, Jack Douglas and Windsor Davies.

I don't understand why this has such a low rating, I know some consider it a poor remake of Camping, but far from it, I've always thought it to be one of the best. Such a shame they made, England, Emmanuelle and Columbus, had they ended here I think 'Behind' would have been held in much higher regard.

Some truly funny gags, fun performances, and great double acts, Windsor Davies and Jack Douglas, Kenneth Williams and Elke Sommer, Peter Butterworth and Joan Sims. These were great comedy teams. Elke especially did a great job, her first Carry on and she was just splendid, likable, funny with a great delivery and a cheeky smile.

Some truly funny moments, Petter Butterworth trying to coax Kenneth and Elke to hire his caravan, Elke's looking for scrubbers, the striptease, lots to chose from.

Even the theme music makes me laugh, it's such a cheeky and funny tune, perfect for the film. 9/10

A group of imminent archaelogists, led by the stuffy Professor Roland Crump (Kenneth Williams) and the more fun and liberated Professor Anna Vooshka (Elke Sommer), are in search of an old Roman town that is thought to be lying underneath a holiday caravan park.

Scriptwriter Dave Freeman was drafted into the fold (replacing Talbot Rothewell) having already worked with producer Peter Rogers and director Gerald Thomas on the 1972 film version of the hit ITV sitcom, Bless This House. Dave Freeman's windy, sparky and far bluer dialogue was more risqué, a trend that had started to emerge in the 1970s Carry On's. The jokes and endless gags all overflow on smutty innuendo and double entendres, even though Freeman was in fact attempting to vaguely recapture the spirit and flavour of 1969's classic (and more innocent) Carry On Camping.

Times had certainly changed since then with all sorts of ludicrous sex comedies scoring high at the Box Office, like the dreadful Confessions Of A... films and the even worse Adventures Of A... series, all of which seemed pretty lame stuff when compared to the sparkling, feel-good factor of the Carry On's. However, by 1975 the Carry On's were suddenly seeming a little out of place and somewhat dated in comparison to the more explicit sex comedies that were roaming around.

Yet, thankfully, 1975's Carry On Behind still comes out a winner, even if it did fare disappointingly at the Box Office. It's missing several of the regular stars, but an injection of new faces keep things fairly fresh, with the likes of Carol Hawkins (who had previously starred in 1972's Carry On Abroad) and Sherrie Hewson providing the eye candy for the men, while Adrienne Posta and Ian Lavender (star of the BBC sitcom, Dads Army) star as a married couple on their annual holidays.

Surprisingly, it's international film star Elke Sommer who receives top billing, pipping Carry On lifer Kenneth Williams to the post. Her wonderful performance is always impeccably timed and tossing in delightfully fractured English comments that becomes the foil of each scene she shares with Kenneth Williams. Both stars seemingly spark off one another.

Kenneth Williams is the typically snide, arrogant and campy Professor Roland Crump. If you were to delve into Kenneth Williams famous Diaries that were published shortly after he allegedly commit suicide in 1988, you would be a little startled to learn (I certainly was) that Williams had grown very unhappy with the Carry On series over the years, feeling they had hindered his acting career in finding more serious, challenging roles. You really can't detect that animosity when you view Williams performance in Carry On Behind (even though he declared this to be the worst in the series at the point of filming) as he goes through the motions with seemingly effortless energy, delivering on the whole, a fine comic turn.

Bernard Bresslaw stars as Arthur Upmore who is on his annual holiday with his wife, Linda (Patsy Rolands), and whom bares the burden of having to bring his interfering, dragon-like mother-in-law (Joan Sims) along. Bresslaw's performance seems to be on auto-pilot a little, although he does have his moments, while Patsy Rolands bubbles along nicely in the background in a fairly minor supporting turn.

Joan Sims also seems to be on auto-pilot (at least for the duration of the first half of the film), though manages a few witty lines to deliver. As the film draws on, however, her character reveals a far softer side when she is unexpectedly reunited with her long-lost husband, Henry (Peter Butterworth) whom had been working at the caravan park as an "odd job" man for the past twenty years. The scenes in which Sims and Butterworth are re-acquainting themselves in the caravan are actually quite touching, delivered beautifully by these two stalwarts of the series and containing a real, poignant edge.

Peter Butterworth as Henry Barnes practically turns in a re-creation of his stingy, scavanging character Mr. Fiddler in the more famous Carry On Camping for this film, and his performance is top notch as always. Another stalwart of the series, Kenneth Connor gets the occasional chance to shine as the sexually repressed and ever-randy caravan site owner, Major Leep.

The pairing of Windsor Davies as Fred and Jack Douglas as Ernie is a slightly pale reflection of the dynamic teaming of Sid James and Bernard Bresslaw in Carry On Camping with just a few variations. Again they are the stereotypical middle-aged married men looking for extra marital activity whilst their wives (Liz Frazer and Patrica Franklin) are blissfully ignorant of their husbands intent, believing they are going on a "fishing" trip.

The pace and energy of the Carry On films was slowing down considerably now, though Carry On Behind stays afloat with some fine performances and hilarious (even if predictable) situations that makes this one of the classics in the series and indeed the last watchable of the series (subsequent entries Carry On England (1976) and Carry On Emamanuelle (1978) are probably best forgotten).

There does seem a lack of real interaction with the cast until the ending when Jenny Cox turns up (typically through a comic misunderstanding) at the caravans club/bar on the final night of the holiday performing a raunchy strip tease. It is at this climax that the film really scores best. And the film ends firmly retaining that feel-good factor that the Carry On's were always renowned for; sadly a last hurrah for the series.

Ian Phillips

Carry On Behind is dismissed by some fans of the series as an inferior imitation of Carry On Camping, a crass caper that desperately tries to keep up with the times by offering viewers an endless tirade of even more risqué innuendo, crude toilet humour and gratuitous female nudity (bums and boobs, but no bush). I don't understand the criticism: in my opinion, that sounds like the recipe for a whole lot of fun!

Sid James and Babs Windsor might not be along for the ride this time around (they were busy working abroad), and Charles Hawtree is also notable by his absence, but even without these stalwarts of the series, I had a great time: Carry On regulars Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw, Liz Fraser, Patsy Rowlands, Kenneth Connor, Peter Butterworth and Jack Douglas ably represent the old guard, while new faces include TV talent Windsor Davies (It Ain't Half Hot Mum) and Ian Lavender (Dad's Army), sexy German actress Elke Sommer, and dolly bird Adrienne Posta (Adventures of a Taxi Driver/Adventures of a Private Eye).

Between them they deliver the goods: Williams falls in a cesspit, Sommer takes a shower and flashes her butt, desperate middle-aged married men Davies and Douglas lust after bikini babes Carol Hawkins and Sherrie Hewson (of Coronation Street fame), Bresslaw goes in search of a foul-beaked Mynah bird, Posta wears a preposterous blonde wig (surely that wasn't her real hair?), Butterworth gets romantic with Sims, and Connor accidentally books a stripper for his caravan camp cabaret act! It might no be all that sophisticated, but its good for some guffaws and a fair few 'phwoars'.

I love this film. Although I love most of the Carry-ons, this one, although 'Sid-less', has one of the best written scripts, and some of the best jokes of any of them. This is definitely one of my favourites.

Elke Sommer is fantastic in her major role, as has a fantastic scene with Bernard Bresslaw. She tells him 'I'm keeping a dirty caravan... I have birds in my caravan - you want to come see?". Bernard replies "Erm..not just now thanks". She replies "I'm going around camp looking for scrubbers." Classic stuff.

There are many little sub-plots throughout, which more than makes up for perhaps, a lack of major storyline.

Joan Sim's escaping 'swearing' Minah bird, the "dirty caravan" scene, the Joan Sims/Peter Butterworth man and wife scene, Windsor Davis/Jack Douglas chatting up the girls, and finally, the stripper scene at the end leading to everyone losing the seat of their clothes.

A really great and enjoyable film. Not taxing, or intelligent in any way, but full of laughs, a bit saucy, and a film you can watch over and over again.

CARRY ON BEHIND is the last of the great Carry Ons, I think. It really shouldn't be a good film; it's a virtual remake of CARRY ON CAMPING except in caravans rather than tents, and not as good. Half of the major cast members from the series are long gone, with Sid James, Barbara Windsor, Hattie Jacques, and Charles Hawtrey, all conspicuous by their absence.

Even so, CARRY ON BEHIND manages to recapture the old-fashioned humour and hijinks of the series at its best. It's all rather lowbrow, of course, with silly jokes and sillier characters, and yet I somehow loved it all the same. It may be that the remaining cast members seem to give it their all, realising that the shared weight of the film's success is on fewer shoulders. So Bernard Bresslaw, Peter Butterworth, Joan Sims, and Kenneth Connor in particular give it their all, and then some.

The newcomers to the series aren't so bad either. Jack Douglas and Windsor Davies have a little double act going which makes up for wit with sheer energy. The person who really feels missed is, and I say this to my surprise, Barbara Windsor, because the women they bring in to replace her just aren't very good. I did like Elke Sommer (LISA AND THE DEVIL) though; she might be an imported Euro-star, but she gives it her best with the rest of them and her character is oddly appealing; she allows Kenneth Williams to shine for sure. Ian Lavender is also good value, although it's a shame that they bring Liz Fraser in, age her with an unappealing haircut, and then keep her off-screen for a very long time.

Highlights of this film include the Mynah bird, the clever and unexpected climax which recalls the set-piece glory days of old, the water main hijinks, the shower stalls, and every scene with Peter Butterworth, who really is at his best here. Plus, the scene between him and Sims late on in the production is unexpected and probably the most moving moment ever seen in a Carry On movie.

This is my first "Carry On"-film and I really and unexpectedly enjoyed this. I mostly started watching this for completism, to have at least seen one movie from the famous franchise. And then I really enjoyed it and watched it to the end. Why? The plot is crap, basically it's a bunch of diverse characters getting together on an English campground in march, which looks about as jolly as an toxic waste site in winter, and then getting up to some horribly contrived antics.

Still, like wine, old jokes can still be good. What makes this movie so enjoyable are the many excellent actors with their impeccable delivery. And the movie always stays slightly naughty and mischievous without ever becoming sleazy.

Carry On Behind is basically a reworking of Carry On Camping, except that the action takes place at a caravan park instead of a camping site. The plot revolves around a group of archaeologists who arrive at the site to dig for Roman remains but get mixed up in some weird situations with holiday makers.

A number of the Carry On stars are missing from this film but there are enough regulars to keep the action at a lively pace. The film belongs to Kenneth Williams and international guest star Elke Sommer as the archaeologists, with Sommer's fractured English providing most of the best one-liners.

The remaining regulars, including Kenneth Connor, Joan Sims and Bernard Bresslaw are restricted to supporting roles but never fail to give first class performances, including Connor as a randy major who owns the site, Sims as the mother-in-law from hell and Bresslaw as her long-suffering son-in-law.

All in all, a final jolly holiday with the team.

This has to be one of the crudest carry on's ever, I am amazed its only got a PG rating, supposedly suitable for children! The subject matter is entirely adult from beginning to end of this film

There is very little in the way of a plot, it starts off simply by explaining how the different characters find themselves at the camp site. What follows is over an hour of undiluted toilet humour of the lowest kind. Its completely smutty and the sexual innuendo never lets up, its unrelenting

Part of the story is meant to be about an archeological dig but we never see any real work going on at the site. Its just another excuse for more smut as the Roman 'artifact' turns out to feature an erotic painting. The actress playing the Russian archeologist is obviously having a good time, her accent is not very believable and of course her poor grasp of the English language is used to create yet more filthy jokes

The two up for it lads are played exactly the same as Carry On Camping, come to think of it, this is really a sequel to Carry On Camping! But the highlight for me was seeing Kenneth Williams performance, he works his usual magic and seems to be on top form. Although we are missing a few favourite characters you soon forget and begin to enjoy yourself. The sight of a man falling into a cesspool is one highlight that really sets the tone near the beginning of the film

As well as the dirty humour there are some very funny set pieces which have to be seen to be believed. The part where Kenneth Williams hits his head in the caravan is priceless, had me laughing uncontrolably! Throughout the film the jokes are predictable, you can see the outcome ages before the inevitable happens but its all so drawn out that it becomes even funnier

The film doesn't really have an ending, the constant stream of crudeness continues, later on some strippers arrive. Its almost as if the producers were concerned there wasn't enough smut in the film so they got some stippers just to be on the safe side. They needn't have worried

Eventually there is a shot of a single caravan leaving the park, which is just an excuse for the events to draw to a close

In conclusion nothing actually happens in this film, there is no plot and no character development. The earlier Carry On's at least had some kind of love interest but this is really just an excuse for a filth fest of epic proportions

I have never seen anything like it. Its crude, offensive and sex mad to the end It actually makes me proud to be British, to think we can come up with stuff like this. We're years ahead of the rest of the world!

I loved it!

It's a retread of Carry On Camping only with caravans as the usual array of characters ripe for fun picking innuendo laden shenanigans. Plot for what it's worth has a bunch of Carry On holidaymakers caravanning next to a Roman excavation site being run by Prof Anna Vrooshka (Elke Sommer) and Prof. Roland Crump (Kenneth Williams). Chaos inevitable ensues.

The absence of Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques and Terry Scott was always going to be felt (they had all left the franchise by this time), but Williams, Bernard Bresslaw , Kenneth Connor, Joan Simms and Peter Butterworth plough on stoically with the thin formulaic screenplay. Windsor Davis supplements them but he's no Sid James.

The series would trundle out two more films in the 70s before the ill advised comeback movie in 1992 (Carry on Columbus), one of which was the dreadful Carry on England. "Behind" isn't an awful movie as it does have its moments, such as the by-play between Sommer and Williams, and Bresslaw's henpecked husband act. It's also a very good snapshot of the era with budget holidays pointing to the unsteady political climate, while the sexual aspects reek of a time well left behind – but those attitudes did exist back then.

Passable Carry On fare but carrying with it the sadness in knowing the series was long past its sell by date. 6/10

In spite of Sid James and Barbara Windsor missing, Bernie Bresslaw, Peter Butterworth, Kenneth Connor, Joan Sims and Kenny Williams powered this, the last of the best 'Carry Ons', as when 'England' came after it, the series never recovered. Aided strangely, but welcome, by the talented German actress, Elke Sommer playing a sexy Russian archaeologist. It's much like 'Camping' but with added features of Ms Sommer's character of Professor Vooshka, bawdily going through the usual motions with some standard but effective gags. Prof. Vooshka was ripe for getting her English mixed up among the campers - when stating her caravan was filthy and looking for a brush to clean it: "I am lookings for scrubbers - I am keeping how you say, a dirty caravan!" much to the chagrin of Bernie Bresslaw!

The latter unfortunately, is at odds with his battleaxe mother-in-law along with him, (Joan Sims) and his wife played by Patsy Rowlands.

Good to see Ian Lavender as another camper with his wife, dotty Adrienne Posta, doting on the beast of a pet dog 'Ollie'.

The assistant archaeologists are getting the girls (Sherrie Hewson and Carol Hawkins), instead of the usual middle-aged 'crumpet-chasers' played by Windsor Davies and Jack Douglas.

Peter Butterworth is the minging aide to Major Leap (Kenneth Connor) who owns the campsite. Butterworth actually turns out to be the long-estranged husband to Joan Sims who rekindle their love a little after Butterworth informs her he's a reformed character after being away from her for ten years. He buys her affection somewhat by telling her he's saved hard over the years - £20,000 in that time - after winning £19,950 on the football pools only a few months' ago!

Kenneth Williams plays a straight-laced assistant archaeologist to Prof. Vooshka, trying to correct her English, mostly, when it happens to be sexually imparted. "Hitting it off," says Prof. Vooshka, "is like 'HAVING it off', no?" Williams is constantly hampered, even thinking he's dying when he knocks his head and sees blood (Actually tomato sauce which poured out of a bottle on to his nut!). Right from the start of the film, he's showing a film of an archaeological dig, only oblivious whilst reading the narrative with it, that it's been substituted with a film of a stripper. "The lower reaches of the area, tend to be be swampy"!.

The campsite is the focus of course and the archaeologists are examining the site for Roman remains - all the campers find it when their caravans fall down holes caused by the Romans' mining operations!

Quite a good one from the gang and as I've said, it was definitely the last of the best and enjoyable in the true fashion of 'Carry On' films.

Not the best film of the Carry On Series, but Carry On Behind certainly isn't the embarrassing blot on the Carry On landscape that all the subsequent Carry On's would turn out to be. 'Behind' is really funny in many places but does admittedly fall flat on it's derriere in others.

Carry On Behind is set in an intimate caravan park, and just like all the other 'holiday' themed Carry On's such as Cruising, Abroad and Camping, we are given some in-depth character defining introductions to all our protagonists.

Kenneth Williams plays Archaeologist Professor Roland Crump, who goes to a campsite where Roman Mosaics have been unearthed whilst digging a new cesspit. Accompanying him is the sexy Russian Professor Anna Vooshka played by the delectable Elke Sommer, who's poor understanding of the English Language is matched only by Crump's poor understanding of the opposite sex.

Windsor Davies makes an impressive Carry On Debut as Butcher Fred Ramsden, who, along with Electrician Ernie Bragg (Jack Douglas), are going to the campsite intent on a spot of fishing, (bird watching more like, and not the kind ornithologists do either!), while their wives played by Liz Fraser and Patricia Franklin are away at a health farm. At the camp, they meet up with dolly birds Sherrie Hewson and Carol Hawkins, who uses their blatant sexuality to play on the two men's affections in order gain a free ride holiday from them.

Adrienne Posta and Ian Lavender play a young married couple off on their annual jollies. Sounds Ideal, but not when Posta has more love for a Great Dane Dog than she does for her husband.

Bernard Bresslaw & Patsy Rowlands (in their last Carry On) Play another married couple who's holiday is marred before it even begins by the ever present mother of Patsy's, and ever moaning mother-in-law of Bernie's, played by a slightly miscast Joan Sims, who also brings her potty mouthed mynah bird along for the trip.

At the caravan site, the two main characters are Kenneth Connor as camp 'commandant' Major Leep, who's air of regimental respectability can barely disguise his hidden lust for scantily clad females, and the penny pinching Barnes, played by Peter Butterworth who gives us another one of his brilliant 'Mr Fiddler' type characters that we all know and love.

One of the funniest moments for me, is when Kenneth Connor, in an inebriated effort to seduce Sims, plays 'The Galloping Major' in the absurd hope that it will get her in the mood for a bit of 'ows your father'. 'This'll get you going!' he chuckles gleefully, 'It certainly will' she nervously responds as she rushes for the door. A great scene from two great comedy actors.

As you can expect being one of the later Carry On's, the innuendo runs thick and fast as does a moderate amount of nudity. Ex Benny Hill and Arthur Askey gag writer Dave Freeman takes over from the legend that was Talbot Rothwell, and gives the movie a more than adequate screenplay, though not a patch on his predecessor, who had left the series after the release of Carry On Dick the previous year.

Eric Rogers's score is everything you expect a Carry On score to sound like and as always, he doesn't disappoint. The movies main theme music is actually quite catchy, as he seems to have adopted a jaunty ragtime piano sound that seemed to be going through a unexpected renaissance in the early-mid 1970's, courtesy of the movie The Sting.

Sadly, there are a few very poor scenes, in 'Behind' which really do accentuate the decline of quality gags after Rothwell's departure, however, these weak points are well bolstered between some extremely funny moments, Had Rothwell stuck it out for another year, and wrote the screenplay for 'Behind', I have no doubt that we would have had a movie to rival Carry On Camping, but I'm afraid that scenario will simply have to remain another one of life's great 'What If's'.

As I said at the beginning of this review, not the best Carry On out there, but certainly better than the one's that came after and to be honest, arguably better than some that came before.

A great way to exercise the old chuckle box and kill 90 lazy minutes.

Enjoy!

I don't laugh easily, haven't particularly liked British films, or lowbrow humor. But this flick had me in stitches 15 year ago. I remember a rapid succession of scabrous double entendres and sexual innuendo. It was so unrelentingly silly I felt mercilessly tickled. I wish I could say I became a fan of the Carry On series. But few other instalments amused me so much. Yet the gang is VERY talented and appealing and offers an exceedingly gentle sort of imbecility, totally unlike American low-brow, which is rather vicious. This series threatens to make an Anglophile out of me, AGAIN!

This film is a good film!. Not as good as Dick but a good film. It is a return to the modern world as the last film was set in 1750 we are now back into the 1970s..Any way the film is based around a caravan site there is a good combination of actors and characters.Bernard Bresslaw is great as Arthur Upmore , Patsy Rowlands is also very good as his wife. Windsor Davies and Jack Douglas are the Sid and Bernie characters as in carry on camping.Joan Sims is a little weak in this carry on not as good as in Dick.Elke Sommer is great as Anna Vooskha as is Kenneth Williams as professor Roland crump. Kenneth Connor is just as funny as ever. Peter Butterworth is the Mr fiddler type character as in Camping. Its a nice return for Liz Frazer who was last seen back in 1963 in Cabby? i think. Ian lavender is very good as the long suffering dog owner his wife Norma Baxter who loves her dog who keeps going into the Upmores tent. Carol and Sandra the birds who Jack and Windsor are after. A talking Mynah bird escapes and creates havoc all over the campsite. Overall a great carry on after this things took a turn for the worst and by 1976 the carry on series was dead and buried.As mentioned the plot is very similar to carry on camping with Carol and Sandra being the Babs and Fanny characters. Most of the last few where remakes of earlier films. Behind = Camping,the film has no real plot just sketches as in loving and Regardless. England is another version of carry on Seargeant , Colombus= Jack.Most of the locations in this film where used in earlier film and makes you pine for Sid and Babs. Barbara Windsor would have been good in this film.Overall 10/10

This is another in the collection of the "Holidaying" Carry On's.I would disagree its a rip off or a simile of Camping..after all we never tired of Matron after Doctor & Again Doctor! This 1975 Outing, really is a classic.New on the scene is Writer Dave Freeman.Many would criticise this man for his later poor attempt at reviving the series in 1992..but i along with many would say the contributing factor of "Time" was to play..Anyhow! Freeman lays down the King of Hearts.

The series by this time was panning out.Sid James wasn't to star in it and Windsor set into that role.What a cracking performance he played with the well remembered "Ball Scene!" (I wont spoil it!) Behind as the setting headline says is truly the last of the "great" era.

Outstanding performances also from Peter Buttorworth & Jack Douglas and a nice return for Lis Fraser and a welcome to Elke Sommers. The film truly is a must see 8.4/10

This later Carry On is missing Sid James, Hattie Jacques, Barbara Windsor and Charles Hawtrey. But with popular regulars Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw, Kenneth Connor, Patsy Rowlands, Jack Douglas and Peter Butterworth in substantial roles, casting shouldn't be a problem.

What lets the film down is Dave Freeman's script. While Carry On films do not need a complex story, here it is too thin, which makes many moments drag. The story is essentially a series of sketches about various people at the camp ground, but Freeman seems to like some of his characters much more than others so some are funny and are given many jokes to do, while others just seem to go through the motions, with not enough gags. Ian Lavender and Andrienne Posta (with horrible costume and makeup) are a young couple with a huge dog but don't seem to have been given any jokes. They have scenes together that are pretty limp and then just end with no punchline. The characters played by Bresslaw, Rowlands and Sims are camping together, but most of their scenes are like a straight soap opera about family squabbles.

The scenes involving Jack Douglas and Windsor Davies as mates on holiday to do some fishing (with Davies hoping to hook some dolly birds) work much better, and are funny. Newcomers Carol Hawkins and Sherrie Hewson acquit themselves well as the young women unfortunate enough to have them in pursuit.

Funniest of all are the scenes with Kenneth Williams and guest Elke Sommer as archaeologists collecting artefacts from the old cesspit. Their bits are classic Carry On and the funniest part of the film. Sommer fits in seamlessly and is the series' most successful guest star.

Kenneth Connor as the lascivious owner of the camp site and Peter Butterworth as the scruffy odd jobs man are hilarious too. Any scene they are in is all the funnier just from their acting.

Liz Fraser returns after many years' absence but only has a small role.

Look out for Larry Dann as the main university student in the film. Dann had appeared in Carry On Teacher (1959) as a student, and this film saw his return. He went on to roles in England (1976) and Emmannuelle (1978), then was a long running regular in police TV series The Bill.

In 1974, the 'Confessions' films ( starring Robin Askwith as randy 'Timmy Lea') arrived, and were doing much the same sort of thing as the 'Carry On' pictures, only with nudity. Peter Rogers' pictures tried to compete - with disastrous results. 'Behind' was probably the last to stay within the parameters of the series. It is set on a rundown caravan site somewhere in England. Holidaymakers from all walks of life converge; they include Bernard Bresslaw's henpecked 'Arthur', his nagging wife 'Linda' ( Patsy Rowlands ), and her domineering mother 'Daphne' ( Joan Sims ), who has brought along her annoying minah bird ( voiced by director Gerald Thomas ). There's also the Baxters ( Ian Lavender and Adrienne Posta ), and their hungry Great Dane. Jack Douglas and Windsor Davies ( the latter in a role written originally for Sid James ) are ostensibly there for the fishing, but who are really there for the f#####g! A team of archaeologists led by Kenneth Williams 'Professor Roland Crump' and Elke Sommer's 'Professor Anna Vooshka' also arrive on the scene to excavate some nearby Roman ruins. Added to this motley collection is Kenneth Connor's randy old site owner 'Major Leep' and Peter Butterworth as his manager 'Barnes' ( who is 'Joshua Fiddler' of 'Carry On Camping' in all but name ).

Dave Freeman inherited the writing duties following the retirement ( due to nervous exhaustion ) of Talbot Rothwell. He had previously written the big screen version of 'Bless This House'. 'Behind' is not vintage 'Carry On', but has its moments, and compared to the three pictures which followed - 'England', 'Emmannuelle', and 'Columbus' - looks like a masterpiece. 'Carry On Camping' appears to have been the main inspiration, but alas it lacks a strong gag to fix it in the memory, like Babs Windsor's flying bra in the earlier picture. It marked Liz Fraser's return to the series after a fourteen-year absence ( her last one was 'Carry On Regardless' ). Its not a very big role, but its nice to have her back. Sommer's 'Vooska' is delightful, with a command of the English language that rivals Inspector Clouseau's French. She greets people with 'how are your doings?' instead of 'how are you doing?', and confuses 'cramped' with 'crumpet'. Williams is suitably flustered as the lucky chappie she gets to share a caravan with. Carol Hawkins ( of 'The Fenn Street Gang' ) and future 'Loose Woman' Sherrie Hewson play a couple of sexy girls who unwisely pitch their tent next to Jack and Windsor's caravan. Sid James and Babs Windsor are missed; both were touring in plays at the time of filming. George Layton's doctor looks and sounds uncannily like 'Dr.Paul Collier', his character from L.W.T.'s 'Doctor' series.

Much of the humour is smutty and predictable, but in a 'Carry On', that's to be expected. The climax has a stripper ( Jenny Cox ) turning up at the site instead of the planned singer, and an unexpected rainstorm leads to flooding and caravans sinking into the ground.

Things To Look Out For - a brief appearance by Diana Darvey, whose curvaceous figure graced several Benny Hill shows.

Funniest moment - trying to retrieve a beach-ball from a bonfire, Fred ( Windsor Davies ) attracts the attention of Barnes ( Peter Butterworth ). "My ball's burning!", he explains. Barnes replies: "Don't stand so close to the fire!".

A few months after 'Behind' went on general release, Sid James died, an event which symbolically heralded the beginning of the end of the much-loved comedy franchise.

This is one of my favourite CARRY ON films. The departure of Sid James and Barbara Windsor, along with Hattie Jacques, from the series, led many people to switch off and stop watching any new CARRY ON films after CARRY ON DICK. Others dismissed the film as a lame remake of CARRY ON CAMPING. I disagree. It's better than CARRY ON CAMPING in my opinion (good though that film was).

The departure of Talbot Rothwell from the series after CARRY ON DICK could well have led to the next film having a terrible script. Luckily that didn't happen... because they chose Dave Freeman. Dave Freeman wrote a few farces that I like, the best being A BEDFUL OF FOREIGNERS, which Terry Scott starred in as the lead. He knew how to write comedy and has a flair for sexual innuendo, and deriving effective humour from misunderstandings. It's hard to think of a better person to have taken over to continue the series. It's a pity this was the only film he wrote the screenplay for, since it's a work of genius in my opinion.

There is even less of a plot to this film than the other entries in the series. But this doesn't stop the film being incredibly funny. A group of holidaymakers end up at a caravan site and much hilarity ensues. There are a few separate sub-plots that come together nicely. I don't want to give too much away so I won't say much on this point. One plot line involves an archaeologist (played by the late, great Kenneth Williams) and his assistant (played to perfection by Elke Sommer) excavating the site looking for Roman remains. They drive much of the film and get into many mishaps and misunderstandings. It's all a joy to watch on the screen.

While all the cast members are brilliant and deliver spirited performances, I want to give special mention to quite a few actors who star in the film.

Windsor Davies and Jack Douglas take on the roles played by Sid James and Bernard Bresslaw in CARRY ON CAMPING. Unlike Sid James, Windsor Davies isn't playing a stereotypical lecherous bloke with a "dirty" laugh. But he does have an eye for the ladies and even though he and Jack Douglas must be two of the least likely ladies' men ever to appear on film, you can't help but really like these blokes and root for them. The two actors seem to be having the time of their lives in this film.

Kenneth Connor is fantastic as the lecherous Major Leep. He thoroughly enjoys himself and leaves you with the impression that he's been wanting to play this part for years. There is a slight touch of pathos in the character too, which is very effective and doesn't drag down the comical stereotype.

Carol Hawkins is great as a camper who stays on the site. She has a screen presence in this film that wasn't there in CARRY ON ABROAD.

There is plenty of witty dialogue in this film. Here's one of my favourite exchanges:

Windsor Davies (referring to a beach ball burning on a fire): My ball's burning!

Peter Butterworth: Don't stand so close to the fire!

There are plenty more of the Donald McGill-type postcard jokes like that one. I love them!

There is more nudity in this film than in the prior entries in the series. But the film as a whole comes across as fun for the whole family, not an adults-only sex comedy like the CONFESSIONS films for example. Most of the humour is cheeky and very British, with many of the jokes likely to go over the top of the heads of children who watch it.

I could be here all day talking about the great qualities of this film but I think I've said enough. It's just a great British comedy from the golden age. Watch the film and enjoy!

Ugh... horrible. In an earlier review I remarked how the worlds of Carry On and On The Buses were poles apart. But then I hadn't seen Carry On Behind, which makes "Buses" seem the height of sophistication.

Opening with a cheesy cartoon of animated bottoms, the meaningless title ("Camping" had already been done six years earlier) is illustrated in the most literal way. The direction and timing of the jokes are so off it's untrue. In fact, I'd guessed every single joke before I'd even seen the film - that's how predictable they are. Occasional lines get a laugh, such as a scene where Windsor Davies's beach ball lands on a bonfire. "Me ball's burning!" he cries, obviously a cue for a cheap testicle-related pun. However, the uninspired "Well don't stand so close to the fire!" is made amusing by the delivery of the very funny Peter Butterworth.

Generally, though, none of the actors do well, with even the usually hilarious Kenneth Williams struggling with the feeble script. Bernard Bresslaw also flounders with a film that has a "comedy whistle" sound effect as he sits on a cactus (twice). Rarely has visual humour been so witlessly contrived. Windsor Davies (so-so) and Jack Douglas (desperately unfunny) are on a fishing holiday, leading to much lame innuendo around the words "tackle" and "flies".

Williams is an archaeological Professor, teamed with Elke Sommer as Professor Vooshka. A pidgin English-speaking "foreigner" who seems to be a prerequisite for cheap 70s comedies, the character exists only to mistakenly say such phrases as "having it off" and "making oats". The only time this dated stereotype produces a laugh is when she exclaims to Windsor Davies that an injured Ken is "bleeding terrible." "Never mind his qualifications," Davies replies, "is he hurt badly?" Yes, that's one of the better ones.

The thing about great comedy is that it arises naturally out of the situation. This is not great comedy. How two grown men and women could get embarrassed from the implications of "stuffing" being on a menu is beyond me. Davies and Douglas are middle-aged schoolboys, waiting between the pauses until someone says the word "bit" so they can fall into helpless laughter once more. It's this relentless scraping for the lowest common denominator of laughs that drags Behind down into the depths.

The female cast is even worse, and the movie sorely misses a Sid James or a Barbara Windsor. Joan Sims is wasted in an underwritten role, and its non-star heavy status gives the impression of a pared-down production. The small setting also concedes the lack of ambition present. It's entries like this that give Carry On its poor reputation in some circles. If you learn that a subplot involves a large hungry dog and a Minor bird that swears and says "show us yer knickers" then you'll see the level of the "humour". Mixed showers, falling into cesspits, lousy incidental music, it's all truly, terribly unfunny.

Where the 60s had seen the series try out constant experiments (Carry On Spying, not very funny but innovative) and expand its scope (Cowboy, Screaming, Khyber), the 70s saw it happy to rest on its laurels. While the last three movies of the 60s were a step down from Khyber, they generally held the era in good stead. Things weren't so bad to begin with, with the first entry of a new decade the fairly standard Up The Jungle. While at times messy and underdeveloped, it's possibly the rudest Carry On, with bestiality making an incongruous appearance during its lunchtime screenings. Loving was underrated, and descended into slapstick homage, while Convenience was also an amusing exploration of the coarseness of the series. However, Henry was a one-joke movie, Abroad had potential squandered and Matron (qv) was possibly the weakest of the overrated medical excursions. Girls was also overlooked, however, and Dick earned its reputation as "the last decent Carry On movie". Post-Behind, England was a laugh vacuum, though the rumours of Emmannuelle being pornographic are, of course, a myth. The other rumour - that it's abysmal - is, sadly, completely true. Though then again, the warning signs should show when it opens with a theme song by Kenny Lynch. Lance Peters's script seems to be a formula of what people think a Carry On is about, rather than a film in its own right, while the overlong scenes and flat direction justify why this one killed the series off. After this low point, it was down to woeful 90s revival Columbus to hammer the final nail in the coffin.

At date of writing a new Carry On for the 21st century is being planned - Carry On London. Will it be able to reverse the downward slope that began right here, with Carry On Behind, the first truly bad entry in the series?

Carry On Behind is certainly one of the worst entries in the long-running British comedy film series, though not the worst by some way - England, Emmanuelle and Columbus spring to mind. However, if the supposed cast of Carry On London is to be believed (Vinnie Jones, Shane Richie and Victoria Silverstedt - two of the worst actors England has ever produced and a former Playboy model) then one day this may be looked back on as a classic.

The film suffers from the loss of several Carry On regulars who had sadly passed on by this stage, or left the series such as Sid James, Barbara Windsor and Charles Hawtrey.Those remaining are mainly sidelined in favour of other people who perhaps were being lined up to eventually replace the ageing regulars and tellingly most never appeared in another Carry On.

The comedy in Behind must have been stolen from saucy postcards bought at the seaside as most of it involves cheap slapstick or painfully obvious double-entendres, probably to try and match the nudity and silliness of the Confessions films of the time but this really fails to hit the mark. There are some hilarious moments such as Windsor Davies with the beach ball "Me ball's burning!" "Don't stand so close to the fire," and some other rare scenes, but most of the humour is tired, like Jack Douglas's clumsy routine he appears to have done in every Carry On film and I still don't understand what is supposed to be funny about it. Only the excellent Peter Butterworth and Elke Sommer manage to rise above the material, with the rest of the cast struggling with the weak script, especially Kenneth Williams who seems embarrassed to be in the film at all.

Carry on Behind still manages to be very watchable, being definitely funnier and better viewing than any of the Confessions films and indeed nearly all of the British sex comedies or sitcoms-turned-films of the 1970's such as On The Buses.

CARRY ON BEHIND

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Sound format: Mono

An archaeological team encounters a variety of comic mishaps whilst excavating ancient ruins beneath a dilapidated caravan park.

In retrospect, it was a huge mistake for the "Carry On" series to, er... carry on following the retirement of regular scriptwriter Talbot Rothwell due to ill health. Few writers could have matched his genius for puns and wordplay, least of all TV journeyman Dave Freeman, who swapped the playful innuendo of his illustrious predecessor with single-entendre gags and near-the-knuckle sexual references ('erection' jokes had become permissible at PG-level in 1975). Still, CARRY ON BEHIND amounts to a fair imitation of the 'real thing', putting its game cast of veterans and newcomers through a free-form remake of CARRY ON CAMPING (1969), minus the flying bras and hilarious hippies of that earlier outing!

Shot in the dead of winter in a muddy field round the back of Pinewood studios (note the visible breath from actors dressed in summer clothing!), the movie revels in its own shortcomings. Top-billed Kenneth Williams had always been contemptuous of this material, but he must have despaired of the sudden downturn in production values, even by "Carry On" standards. Nevertheless, he acts up a storm as renowned archaeologist 'Professor Roland Crump', whose lecture to a bored-looking Town Hall audience in the opening scene is enlivened when his 'film show' turns out to contain footage of a stripper (as the girl is about to remove her bra, an oblivious Williams intones: "Miss Fosdyke is about to reveal something of ENORMOUS interest!"). But Williams - so often the star of these shows by default - is almost completely upstaged by Britt Ekland, utterly delightful as a vivacious Russian scientist whose basic grasp of English gets her into all sorts of trouble ("Professor Crump and I vill soon be having it off!" "No, no - HITTING it off!!"). Co-star Joan Sims is in full battleaxe mode, sharing much of her screen time with a rude Mynah bird (voiced, uncredited, by director Gerald Thomas), while middle-aged lotharios Windsor Davies and Jack Douglas make fools of themselves by pursuing a couple of bosomy dolly-birds (Carol Hawkins and "Coronation Street"s Sherrie Hewson). Best gag: When a crowd of holidaymakers lose the seat of their pants after sitting on newly-painted chairs, site owner Kenneth Connor promises a thorough investigation: "I'll get to the bottom of this - I feel a complete arse!"

Though cheap and cheerful in its own debased way, this was the last of the 'good' "Carry On" movies. Denied the opportunity by British censors to exploit newfound sexual freedoms enjoyed by moviegoers across the rest of the world, Adult filmmakers merely co-opted the sex-based humor of Thomas' long-running series and rendered explicit what had always been implied by Rothwell's fruity screenplays, adding softcore sex and nudity to an ultra-commercial brew (I'M NOT FEELING MYSELF TONIGHT, CAN YOU KEEP IT UP FOR A WEEK?, the "Confessions" series, etc.). Unwilling to compete with such material, and having lost both Rothwell and star Sid James (he died onstage at the Sunderland Empire theatre in 1976), the series plunged into serious decline with the following entry, CARRY ON ENGLAND (1976), a wartime farce which swapped wit and cleverness for puerile pratfalls and naked female breasts, earning the franchise its first restrictive censor rating in the UK (AA - no one under 14 allowed).

CARRY ON BEHIND is a frustrating mix of both good and bad for those who have enjoyed at least some of the movies in the series . The movie starts with Professor Crump giving a lecture without realising someone has sent him the wrong film . On paper an academic narrating pornography would seem rather flat but here it raises a smile . Unfortunately after that the plot revolves around an inferior remake of CARRY ON CAMPING with most of the mediocre attempts at humour coming from aforeigner who has a poor grasp of the English language . There is avery funny scene involving a beach ball:

" What's wrong with you ? "

"Me ball's burning "

" Well don't stand so close to the fire "

But there's not too many more laugh out loud moments . Having said that CARRY ON BEHIND is far better than the movies that followed it in the franchise

Elke Sommer and Kenneth Williams play archeologist's. They go to an archaeological site to study some artifacts. They run into a bunch of campers with crazy lives. Windsor Davies makes his first appearance in a Carry On film. He is funny as always. I love the way he talks. He was also great in Carry on England. I also enjoyed Bernard Bresselaw. He gets to play a character without wearing costume or a lot of make-up for once. I do miss Sid James. This is the first film they did after he retired from the Carry on series. This to me is not one of the funniest Carry On's. A lot of people say this is the last great Carry On. I like Carry on England slightly better. The last great Carry On for me was Carry on Matron. That really had some funny moments and it was my favorite, Jacki Piper's last appearance.