Very Cool!!!

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

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.

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!

Can you imagine students that love their headmaster (principal) so much that they try to sabotage his leaving by playing practical jokes when a district(?) team is visiting the school? That's the premise of this, one of the early Carry On films.I can certainly imagine the reaction of the visiting psychiatrist played by Leslie Phillips (Venus) when he saw Miss Allcock played by Joan Sims (The Last of the Blonde Bombshells). I had the same reaction in Walmart yesterday when some young miss in short shorts and a tight Tee walked by a couple of times.Full of the usual Carry On stars and some guests, it is typical British humor at it's finest.

The third Carry On film and arguably the best of the first three, this one is amusing from start and always full of laughs. The jokes are funnier than in the two previous entries, and Leslie Phillips is in particularly good form this time. It is still very silly, and in terms of the plot it is not all that much better than 'Carry On Sergeant' and 'Carry On Nurse', with the practical jokes becoming a bit tiresome towards the end and a story that is very simplistic. Still, the film comes highly recommended from me, as everything seems to fit together rather well, including appropriately used music. It is not a perfect film, but definitely a bit of a delight to watch.