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Wonderfully offbeat film!

Fresh and Exciting

brilliant actors, brilliant editing

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I cannot believe at the time of writing this review this film has an average of 6.2, this is a 9 surely. Over 50 years on this remains a hilarious James Bond spoof. Banned from using characters from the James Bond franchise, Gerald Thomas creates Agent Charlie bind, 00-0. Kenneth Williams leads a team of British spies who must take on the STENCH criminals and capture the stolen formula of Professor Stark, who was blown up by the Milk man at the start. Spying stands out from the other early Carry on films by being very camp, Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtrey are on fine form. Barbara Windsor has just finished playing Gloria in the Rag Trade, she makes a great start to her legendary Carry on career, by playing Daphne Honeybutt, although it would be 3 years before she'd return as Sandra May in Carry on Doctor. Dilys Laye is gorgeous in this film and is uncredited for singing The Magic of love, but it was actually her voice. A real feel good film, and one that will make all the family smile.

The seventh and final black and white "Carry" On film, this is an absolute laugh riot from start to finish. It's a never less than hilarious parody of the spy film genre which was already becoming hugely popular after the success of the first two Bond films, though it also owes a great deal to earlier British spy films. It's one of the sauciest and wittiest films in the series with at least one belly laugh per minute!Instead of his usual supercilious persona, Kenneth Williams adopts a nasal voice as the more obviously stupid Desmond Simkins, which proves just as funny. As with "Carry On Jack", most of the series regulars are missing but Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Bernard Cribbins and, in her first "Carry On" film, Barbara Windsor are so good together that I didn't miss their presence nearly as much as I did in this film's lacklustre predecessor. It has a very strong supporting cast, particularly Eric Barker, Richard Wattis, Dilys Laye, Jim Dale and Eric Pohlmann, who provided the voice of Blofeld in "From Russia with Love" and would do so again in "Thunderball". Since he also appeared in the pre-Bond "Carry On Regardless", however, this may just be a coincidence.

Carry On Spying is an OK movie with some funny scenes,but I didn't find it quite as entertaining as some Carry On films.I've seen many I always quite enjoyed them,especially Carry On Screaming,with was very funny,but with a great horror spoof to it as well.I enjoy Carry On films,they remind me of Monty Python,although a lot more innocent (also,not as good as Monty PAython).Although I think Carry On did a terrific job spoofing horror,I don't think they did as well in this spoofing spy movies.Agent Sompkins and his three trainees are on a mission to find a top secret formula that got stolen by a society called STENCH.

It's incredible to believe that at this early stage, CARRY ON SPYING was already the ninth in the long running series. It's the last of the black and white instalments, and it's an affectionate, often obvious spoof of the James Bond spy era.Series regulars Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Hattie Jacques and Joan Sims are all conspicuous by their absence, but Bernard Cribbins returns from CARRY ON JACK and Barbara Windsor appears in her first CARRY ON - and she's marginally less irritating than in latter entries. Kenneth Williams is the real highlight of this one, playing an extraordinarily camp character instead of the usual snobbish twit from earlier films, and he turns every line of dialogue into a highlight.It's also grand to have Charles Hawtrey in a larger role than usual, before the presence of additional regulars reduced him to little more than cameo appearances. Jokes come in the form of the requisite mistaken identities, cross dressing and other shenanigans, with Eric Barker playing the exasperated superior with aplomb and Jim Dale bagging a more prominent role. The ending, which takes place inside a lair straight out of a Bond film, is memorably silly but the preceding bit in the train is the real highlight.