Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

bkoganbing This particular entry in the Carry On series was a bit more sentimental than most. The British educational system gets a good going over in this film however.At first glance this looks like the British version of The Blackboard Jungle, but at Maudlin Street school headmaster Ted Ray is actually a beloved figure and the kids don't want to see him leave. When they find out that Leslie Phillips is over from the Ministry of Education to make an evaluation this will make sure that Ray does not get the promotion he's looking for.Out come the practical jokes played on the entire faculty. When your faculty consists of Carry On regulars like Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, Hattie Jacques, Joan Sims, and Charles Hawtrey you're guaranteed of some great reactions.Hawtrey looks truly ridiculous in that gown that went out with Mr. Chips. That itching powder at the teacher conference was classic as was a never to be forgotten version of Romeo&Juliet. Lots of laughs in this Carry On film.

Jackson Booth-Millard The makers of the first two Carry On films weren't thinking about making a long series, this was the third film to use the leading title, and obviously twenty seven more followed. Basically at Maudin Street Secondary Modern School the students overhear that Headmaster William 'Wakie' Wakefield (Ted Ray), who has been there for twenty years, is planning to leave and apply to another school as Headmaster. To stop him from going anywhere, and knowing that he wants all the staff to run everything smoothly for the visit to the school by Ministry of Education Inspector Felicity Wheeler (Rosalind Knight) and child psychiatrist Alistair Grigg (Leslie Phillips), the students start a revolution of sorts. They start by creating chaos in the classrooms that the visitors will be visiting, by making the teachers slip up, including science master Gregory Adams (Kenneth Connor), English master Edwin Milton (Kenneth Williams), music teacher Michael Bean (Charles Hawtrey), gym mistress Sarah Allcock (Joan Sims) and maths teacher Grace Short (Hattie Jacques). While the students are succeeding in ruining Wakefield's chances of leaving with his good reputation going in tatters, Griggs has other things on his mind, such as his affection for Miss Allock, and vice versa. Miss Wheeler does feel very disgusted by the youngsters behaviour towards some of the teachers, but she is distracted too by her feelings towards Mr. Adams. Knowing that his chances of going to the new school are going down the drain, Wakefield decides to get Adams to tell Miss Wheeler his true feelings towards her, he is unsuccessful for a while, but he does eventually come out with it. The students meanwhile are trying to sabotage the last day of term, they are caught in the act and taken to the Headmaster, and they explain how upset they were to hear that he might be leaving, Miss Wheeler is moved to give a good report, and Wakefield also moved said he won't leave and will see all the students next term. Also starring Cyril Chamberlain as Alf Hudson, Richard O'Sullivan as Robin Stevens and Carol White as Sheila Dale. Like the hospital set films later in the series, the school does make a good setting for the story, the cast of course are all likable, the slapstick and occasional double entendre innuendo based jokes are funny, and it is just a good fun British comedy. Carry On films were number 39 on The 100 Greatest Pop Culture Icons. Good!

paul-johnson107 I particularly like this carry On, because it looks at something ordinary and makes it funny. Every child goes to school and you get some that play jokes on the teachers and make life a nuisance. Gerald Thomas and Peter Rogers along with Norman Hudis, scriptwriter of this carry on film have picked up on this and turned it into a comedy carry on film.As usual there is the carry On established cast: Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, Hattie Jacques, Joan Sims and Chalres Hawtrey. They are joined by the marvellous Ted Ray, Rosalind Knight and Leslie Phillips. The children are played by the marvellous Richard O Sullivan who is now residing in a retirement home for actors due to illness, Larry Dann who went on to play sergeant Alec Peters in the Bill on ITV1 and Diane Langton who was uncredited.The film is set in Mauldin Street school, a child psychiatrist has been granted permission to do some research for an upcoming book, he is accompanied by the school inspector Felictiy Wheeler (Knight), they are shown the Maudlin Street hospitality NOT when Stevens (Sullivan) discovers Mr Wakesfield acting Headmaster (Ted ray) is planning to leave the school. They play lots of funny stunts in order for him to stay, find out what happens in this hilarious carry on.

richard.fuller1 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".