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      Carry On ... Up the Khyber

      1968 1h 27m Comedy List
      Reviews 78% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings Sir Sidney (Sidney James), his wife (Joan Sims) and their colonial dinner guests ignore an uprising sparked by the Khasi of Kalabar (Kenneth Williams). Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Rated the best Carry On film and the first one I've seen. I thought it was better than expected. The humour is toilet and dated but it's ok lighthearted stuff. Won't bother with any more Carry On films. I get the gist. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review William L The Carry On franchise seems to have been one of the less stalwart to survive to 21st century pop culture, despite the sheer magnitude of the series; I had no idea that this totally unexpected property even existed before trying to clear the BFI Top 100 British films of the 20th century. Perhaps the films have been forgotten in part because critics and audiences are enamored with the idea of preserving the homogeny of the exceedingly dry style of humor in the Alec Guinness/Ealing Studios comedies of the immediate postwar years, and believe that this style continued uninterrupted until Monty Python came to town. However, this doesn't seem to be the case at all! The Carry On series may lean a bit too heavily on one-note humor, but is still far more conventionally entertaining and has plenty of classic punches, even today; the dialogue (if not the physical and visual humor) seems to be a direct influence upon the ZAZ comedies that would take the world by storm a couple of decades later. A short runtime and relentless stream of jokes help keep Up the Khyber from getting stale, and make me believe that this is an entirely unappreciated little gem of period humor; distinctly English without some of the characteristic weaknesses of using dry wit exclusively. (3.5/5) Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/19/20 Full Review rory s Carry on up the Khyber was very funny. Classic comedy. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review bill t An interesting Carry On that explores the tumultuous relationship between India and Britain in the early 20th century. A bit rgating, with lots of sex jokes, but the ending is the only interesting. Very surreal and Bunuelesque, Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Goodish fun. Set in India in the 1890s, the local Indian ruler, the Khazi of Kalabar, is planning an uprising to overthrow the region's British government. Standing between him and success are the men of the kilted 3rd Foot and Mouth Regiment, a feared unit who guard the Khyber Pass. Then the Khazi gets some information which will massively undermine the regiment... Reasonably good fun. Not laugh-a-minute but there are some great jokes - scenes and one-liners - some of which are very clever. The parody of British stiff-upper-lipness and calmness under pressure works well too. Silly at times, but it never gets carried away or takes itself too seriously. Well-paced too: the movie doesn't get bogged down or overstay its welcome. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member top notch fun from the carry on team Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Sir Sidney (Sidney James), his wife (Joan Sims) and their colonial dinner guests ignore an uprising sparked by the Khasi of Kalabar (Kenneth Williams).
      Director
      Gerald Thomas
      Screenwriter
      Talbot Rothwell
      Production Co
      The Rank Organisation, Peter Rogers Productions
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      May 22, 2017
      Runtime
      1h 27m
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