Still in the Fifties, with the fifties style of situation comedy (this time a school), but it is getting a bit more bawdy, mostly by Leslie Phillips and Joan Sims. It has a good ending though. It is also the film that marked the point where they decided to do a series of films, the first was a one-off, but because of its success they made a 2nd, when that was also successful they decided on the series and this is the first from that decision, still I don't imagine they expected to do 30 when they were making this though, they just went with it! And we are glad they did.
The cast list has shrunk since the last one, some of the usual Carry-on Team come more to the fore, gone are the likes of Shirley Eaton and Terence Longden, and the cameo role actors, in comes Ted Ray and 3 young un's Richard O'Sullivan (of British TV fame), Carol White (who went to Hollywood and was big for 5 mins but died young) and Francesca Annis (if you can spot her), playing 3 of the children. Cyril Chamberlain gets a cameo as the school caretaker.
Lead actor of the carry-on's is Kenneth Connor again, in the early films he was the main one. The others are Charles Hawtrey, Leslie Philips, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques, Roaslind Knight is back again, she did 2 of the early carry-on's, before going of to do other stuff, she did a few Doctor and St Trinians movies amongst mostly British TV work, she is still going at it, aged 86. Leslie Phillips is also still going, his last role was in 2012, so maybe he has retired at last, he is 96 tomorrow (April 20, 2012). All the rest have passed away unfortunately. Still no Sid James, Bernard Bresslaw, Barbara Windsor and Jim Dale yet, and a few others, they will come later.
This is better than the first 2, it is similar in quality to the first 2 but it has more energy a little funnier and a bit of action. I am still scoring it a 7 like 'Carry On Nurse', but it is more like 7.5.
