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George Frederick Joffre Hartree, known as Charles Hawtrey, was an English comedy actor and musician. Beginning at an early age as a boy soprano, he made several records before moving on to radio. His later career encompassed the theatre, the cinema, through the Carry On films, and television.
Total trailers found: 75
30 October 1949
A young couple move into a charming rural cottage. They become fixated upon the mysterious death of the earlier female occupant.
28 October 1935
A Smithfield porter becomes a butler, and later finds himself heir to a fortune.
04 July 1949
Nurse Shirley Yorke must assist her boss Dr Napier, the only person able of effecting a new treatment on the ailing wife of a British Lord.
23 December 1937
When the City stockbroker firm of Macintyre & Son records a substantial yearly profit, its senior staff are each promised a £50 bonus.
17 December 1979
Classic short British comedy, full of stars, about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.
29 June 1939
Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels.
31 January 1960
Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the hugely popular 1950s TV comedy.
01 January 1933
A woman, disappointed in love, becomes increasingly cynical and attempts to marry a wealthy man.
20 April 1940
Two convicts escape prison and get a job in a bakery. Their attempts to go straight are endangered by a third escaped convict.
01 November 1955
An atomic scientist is found floating in a river with a bullet in his back and a radioactive halo around his body.
01 July 1952
Ada Shore (Diane Hart) arrives at Skerryvore University in Scotland in search of her long-lost uncle Connell O’Grady (Joseph Tomelty), who was once a subversive Irish poet but is now working under an assumed name as a University porter.
30 January 1959
In Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital altogether. The formidable Matron's debut gives everyone a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her.
01 January 1946
Lesley and Wesley, comedians awaiting their turn at the Skewball Hippodrome, appoint themselves amateur detectives to find a stolen diamond brooch.
01 September 1935
Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.
02 November 1955
A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.
01 January 2001
June Whitfield takes a look at some of the locations used during the making of the legendary 'Carry On' films.
12 November 1934
“The reconciliation of a divorced couple following the publisher husband's marriage to his secretary.
25 June 1954
A man pays a hitman to kill him. Circumstances change and he tries to call off the hit but he has trouble getting the deal killed.
17 October 1961
A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher will take it because they all think there isn't really a monster.
04 February 1941
Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the staff.
01 March 1951
A young artist plots "the perfect murder" in order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune.
08 January 1937
Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily.
17 December 1959
The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller featuring characters obviously based on the local population.
11 November 1958
A group of misfit soldiers are desperately trying to fiddle themselves some leave. Instead they wrangle a posting to the British Middle-East protectorate of Darawa.
01 December 1969
A race of sexy, other-dimensional specimens arrive to Earth to kidnap women to repopulate their planet.
01 December 1972
A group of holidaymakers head for the Spanish resort of Elsbels for a 4-day visit. When they get there, they find the Hotel still hasn't been finished being built, and the weather is awful.
02 January 1945
The British Government's ten year plan for providing prefabricated homes.
26 October 1949
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory.
01 May 1952
A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.
01 June 1961
Colonel Proudfoot of Proudfoot Industries tries to entice a couple of newly qualified dentists to advertise "Dreem", a revolutionary type of toothpaste, but he knows that if the dentists learn that they are part of an advertising campaign, they will be struck off, and the campaign will be a disaster.
31 October 1954
Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he gets the cash.
29 May 1969
Sid and Bernie keep having their amorous intentions snubbed by their girlfriends Joan and Anthea, so when they decide to take them on a holiday to Paradise Camp, they think they're off to a nudist colony—but they couldn't be more wrong, and meet up with the weirdest bunch of campers you can imagine.
08 November 1964
Two Britons—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome.
15 May 1950
In 1904 London, neighbors begin to suspect that a very strange man calling himself Dr. Fell may indeed be the famous Jack the Ripper.
21 August 1944
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
20 July 1936
Publisher John Gillespie faces a financial crisis after his business partner skips town with all the firm's assets.
31 August 1958
Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Servicemen.
10 December 1971
At WC Boggs' Lavatory factory, Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat.
29 December 1998
Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips and out-takes are mixed with interviews with the cast.
05 May 1972
A gang of thieves plan to make their fortune by stealing a shipment of contraceptive pills from Finisham maternity hospital.
12 February 1968
Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond looks after the British outpost near the Khybar pass. Protected by the kilted Third Foot and Mouth regiment, you would think they were safe, but the Khazi of Kalabar has other ideas—he wants all the British dead.
26 November 1965
Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a 'sanitary engineer' named Marshal P.
04 April 1961
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting… and demolishing a house.
22 February 1960
With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station.
20 August 1959
When a well-loved headmaster decides to retire, his scheming pupils have other ideas. The cunning boys unleash a campaign of practical jokes, armed with gin, itching power, and bombs!
10 August 1967
Bertram Oliphant 'Bo' West wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation, so he joins the Foreign Legion—with Simpson his manservant in tow.
20 March 1970
The Carry On team send up the Tarzan tradition in great style. Lady Evelyn Bagley mounts an expedition to find her long-lost baby.
01 January 1956
Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is 'pulled', and Sir Charles is forced to sell his Irish estate.
02 March 1967
Amidst the French revolution, Citizen Robespierre is beheading the aristocracy! When word gets to England, noblemen Sir Rodney Ffing and Lord Darcy Pue take it upon themselves to aid their French counterparts.
01 June 1964
Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies.
20 May 1966
The sinister Dr. Watt has an evil scheme going—he's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores.
15 March 1955
The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine, are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist, and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them.
20 March 1956
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money.
02 December 1967
Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over matter, slips off the platform in the middle of his performance and ends up in hospital under the care of Dr Tinkle.
03 June 1971
Henry VIII has just married Marie of Normandy, and is eager to consummate their marriage. Unfortunately for Henry, she is always eating garlic, and refuses to stop.
23 February 1964
Able seaman Poop-Decker signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless. Those swabbing the decks include Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey and Donald Houston.
