CARRY ON, SERGEANT
(Anglo-Amalgamated ) G Cert. HERE is, you may have noticed, a curious progression in the currency of a gag or joke. Brand-new it earns its legitimate reward of laughter, repeated a few more times it becomes boring-re-peated ad libitum it enters a new phase and gleans a fresh harvest of guffaws simply because it has become a cliché. If you are one of those who snort compulsively every time the line "He’s fallen in the water" creaks from your radio, then you’ll probably respond in like fashion to the pastiche of old army jokes that is presented here. Carry On, Sergeant was a_ box-office success in Britain and has done good business locally, so probably most people suffer from the same conditioned reflexes. I couldn’t suppress an occasional strangled chuckle myself, but I still think it was a waste of good celluloid.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1049, 2 October 1959, Page 18
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144CARRY ON, SERGEANT New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1049, 2 October 1959, Page 18
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