Carry on Teacher (1959)

Director:

Gerald Thomas

Writer:

Norman Hudis (original screenplay)

Release Date:

October 1962 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Nothing but nothing is funnier and spicier than . . . Carry On Teacher

Plot:

Pupils run amock at Maudin Street School in an attempt to hang on to their headmaster. He has applied for a new job...

Plot Keywords:

School | Headmaster | Pupil | Teacher | Student

Cast

Kenneth Connor	...	Gregory Adams
Charles Hawtrey	...	Michael Bean
Leslie Phillips	...	Alistair Grigg
Joan Sims	...	Sarah Allcock
Kenneth Williams	...	Edwin Milton
Hattie Jacques	...	Grace Short
Rosalind Knight	...	Felicity Wheeler
Cyril Chamberlain	...	Alf Hudson
Ted Ray	...	William 'Wakie' Wakefield, the Headmaster
Richard O'Sullivan	...	Robin Stevens - Saboteur
George Howell	...	Billy Haig - Saboteur
Diana Beevers	...	Penelope 'Penny' Lee - Saboteur
Jacqueline Lewis	...	Pat Gordon - Saboteur
Roy Hines	...	Harry Bird - Saboteur
Carol White	...	Sheila Dale - Saboteur

Runtime:

86 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

UK:U (video rating) | Sweden:Btl | UK:U (cut) | Australia:G

Filming Locations:

Drayton Green Primary School, West Ealing, London, England, UK

Company:

Peter Rogers Productions

Trivia:

One of the boys is 17 year old Larry Dann. He would reappear 16 years later in the last 3 official Carry On films (Carry on Behind (1975), Carry on England (1976) & Carry on Emmannuelle (1978)) playing much bigger roles.

Quotes:

Michael Bean: My beautiful, wrecked, piano!
Edwin Milton: Does that mean you won't be able to finish composing the music for the play?
Michael Bean: Real composers don't require pianos, it is all in the mind.
Edwin Milton: Best place for it.
Michael Bean: Never wanted my music, have you?
Edwin Milton: Well, Tchaikovsky would have done me, if I'd had that music at all. Personally...
Michael Bean: Out with it, what's your objection? Come on, let's have all of it, come on let's have it!
Edwin Milton: Alright it's already my herculian task to coax anything like audability from these children, if, in addition, I have to cope with an orchestra that makes a lullaby sound the climax to 1812.
[...]

Movie Connections:

Featured in Carry on Quizzing (2006) (VG)

My brief review of the film

The third Carry On film and arguably the best of the first three, this one is amusing from start and always full of laughs. The jokes are funnier than in the two previous entries, and Leslie Phillips is in particularly good form this time. It is still very silly, and in terms of the plot it is not all that much better than 'Carry On Sergeant' and 'Carry On Nurse', with the practical jokes becoming a bit tiresome towards the end and a story that is very simplistic. Still, the film comes highly recommended from me, as everything seems to fit together rather well, including appropriately used music. It is not a perfect film, but definitely a bit of a delight to watch.