Carry On Sergeant

The Stars
	William Hartnell Bob Monkhouse Shirley Eaton Eric Barker Dora Bryan Bill Owen Charles Hawtrey Kenneth Connor Kenneth Williams Terence Longdon Hattie Jacques Terry Scott Norman Rossington Victor Maddern	Sergeant Grimshawe Charlie Sage Mary Captain Potts Nora Corporal Copping Peter Golightly Horace Strong James Bailey Miles Heywood Captain Clark Sergeant O'Brien Herbert Brown Sergeant Liddle

The Crew
Producer Director Screenplay ... ... Music Cinematographer Editors	Peter Rogers Gerald Thomas Norman Hudis (from the Bull Boys by R F Delderfield). Additional by John Antrobus Bruce Montgomery Peter Hennessy Peter Boita

Synopsis

Carry On Sergeant is a boisterous barrack-room send up of the army life. First of the series, this has several elements in embryo, that the unplanned series keeps, not least the casts bounce and brashness.

Kenneth Connor as a nail-biting hypochondriac, Kenneth Williams as the snooty egg-head, Charles Hawtrey being rather light on his feet and Hattie Jacques as imperious Medical Officer. These established their character, with little change, for the rest of the Carry Ons.

Eric Barker, Shirley Eaton, Bill Owen and Terence Longdon went on to make a few more of the earlier Carry Ons. Bob Monkhouse plays a displaced Bridegroom, sent for National Service on his honeymoon, and would have improved the series if he had stayed, but only makes the one appearance in the series.

Norman Hudis bases this romp on the Bull Boys by RF Delderfield, but changes the setting from a ballet school to a Army camp, using his experiences in youth for it's benefit.

A reasonable start to the series, and it was certainly successful, being one of the box-office pulls of the year, but for the person brought up on the later Carry Ons as I was, this is just from a tamer and older era of British comedies.

Running Time - 83m	Black and White		Certificate - A
Budget - Ł74,000		UK Release - September 1958
Shot - 24 March 1958 - 2 May 1958

Foreign Titles
Denmark - Attention Recruits	Germany - Cheer Up, Chest Out
Belgium - Lets Go, Sergeant