Carry on Teacher (1959)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

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:

Sweden:Btl | UK:U | Australia:G

Filming Locations:

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

Company:

Beaconsfield 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)

Good Bye, Mr. Chips?

The third film in this Carry On series was funnier than the previous two, or I am now getting the hang of who "the core" cast members may be.

The plot seemed simple enough, then took a very different twist just toward the end.

Humor-wise, the staff getting drunk was pretty good and that class discussion with Williams did have me laughing and rewinding back ("the girl who lives just down the road from us!")

With still no idea what to expect from the rest of these Carry Ons, it seems to me after three films that there is to be two romances in each films. I suspect that will change eventually.

Best thing I have seen thus far of Carry On was when everyone was hugging at the end of "Teacher" because the headmaster wouldn't be leaving and Williams, Jacques and Hawtrey all hug, each man giving her a kiss in between them.

They all stepped away and Jacques moved to the back.

The two men then came forward again for a very passionate embrace and upon realizing Jacques wasn't with them, they separated and Hawtrey gave Williams such a slap.

Nice fun and a nice perspective on school and education in film, especially this close to "Blackboard Jungle".