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Comedy Movie Posters

Brits have a funny old attitude towards sex, funny as in ha ha. Another word might be immature...British Comedy posters represent a sort of evolution of social attitudes as we go from Comedy Movies with a bit of sex to Sex Movies with a bit of comedy. Brits never really got the hang of pure blue movies, porn was imported from those countries good at it, from the arty Vaseline on the camera lens French stuff to the Vaseline everywhere but the camera lens Scandinavian true blue. Any domestic product could just never take itself seriously, Brits had to turn it into a bit of a giggle. Sex and Comedy has always gone together in the UK like Sex and Violence has in the USA, I know which I find healthier. American comedies are well represented here too, I would have liked to have more Ealing here but there you go, my pockets are as shallow as I am.

A love of Carry On movies is in my genes, but I don't really find the Poster art that great. Exceptions being my favorite, Carry On Screaming, which I have and treasure, and Carry on Cleo which I would love to own some day. There are different versions, some not that good and re-releases were common at holidays. So the Carry On's aren't as represented here as they should be; I am pacing myself since too many other people specifically collect them.

I started to buy the 70's exploitation comedies since they were relatively cheap compared to my Hammer Habit which is getting harder and harder to feed. No doubt the art meets all the salaciousness requirements and for cheap movies; the art is really very good.

Comedies are cheap films to make. Sight gags, one liners and maybe the occasional stunt or two. No special effects beyond the occasional fly away bra and familiar TV faces the public knows and loves.. They cost next to nothing and if successful rake in a fortune. It’s not the epics or the blockbusters that keep the industry alive, to this day it is the comedies.

The Carry On's and other classic British working class comedies were all things I was exposed to long before I was old enough to get even one of the risqué double entendres. Yet I still found them hilarious. There was plenty of physical comedy, obviously, but the faces and expressions of people like Kenneth Williams, Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, Frankie Howerd, etc were enough in themselves to amuse any young lad. I don't think it warped my development but then again my wife might disagree.

Sadly, a sign of my own aging is that there are less of these guys around. Stephen Fry is a great successor to Kenneth, whether he would enjoy that comparison or not. So there are still people who have the knack for both low brow toilet humor and high brow word games. There still seems to be a niche in Brit comedy for this kind of humor even though it has become more PC. More performers are finding it just as comfortable out of the closet and it doesn't seem to have effected the enjoyment of camp us Brits seem to love.

Carry on Columbus still stunk though.

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Clifton Webb * Jeanne Crain * Myrna Loy

I had no idea this was based on a true story...

Yvone DeCarlo * Peter Ustinov * David Tomlinson

The type of Saturday afternoon movie my parents were always keen to watch.

Gérard Philipe * Martine Carol * Gina Lollobrigida * Magali Vendeuil * Marylin Bufferd

Otherwise interesting picture of some forgotten icons as well as at least one well remembered one, being ruined by the "Cinema History" glued across the top. Apparently it was a Royal Performance...and then it wasn't.

Tom Ewell * Sheree North * Rita Moreno

Dated and misogynistic but you can't complain about a girl in uniform and stockings with seems.

Jayne Mansfield * Tony Randall * Betsy Drake * Joan Blondell

Mansfield trying very hard to look like Monroe.

Dirk Bogarde * Muriel Pavlow * Donald Sinden * James Robertson Justice * Shirley Eaton

Third one for the Doctor series, the early Carry On's seem to going for similar art to this, maybe the same artist, don't know for sure. Another series that can get expensive to collect.

Dan Dailey * Ginger Rogers * David Niven * Barbara Rush * Tony Randall

Man in a Mac on the poster, Hm...wonder what that's all about.

David Tomlinson * Frankie Howerd * Shirley Eaton * Thora Hird * Lionel Jeffries

A sequel but a good one and of course it's got Frankie. Art is similar to the Doctor series. This is actually a Hammer film. so I am mis-categorizing it here, but I've decided to keep the Hammer section more about the films they are generally known for. You can see the folds on this example have quite a lot of brown staining.

Michael Craig * Anne Heywood * Mylène Demongeot * James Robertson Justice * Claudia Cardinale * Sid James * Joan Hickson * Joan Sims

Some Euro glamour mixed in with the usual suspects for Brit comedy.

Marilyn Monroe * Tony Curtis * Jack Lemmon * George Raft

Well, clearly not the original release poster. Ha, ha, yeah right...Even this British Film Institute version from 2000 is starting to become harder to find and I think every poster collection should have at least one Marilyn.

Kenneth Connor * Shirley Eaton * Charles Hawtrey * Hattie Jacques * Bill Owen * Leslie Phillips * Joan Sims * Kenneth Williams * Wilfrid Hyde-White * Terence Longdon

Second of the classic series, starting to get more into the groove but before going all innuendo. It's got the famous daffodil scene and early appearance of Leslie Phillips Ding-Dong Bell so plenty to enjoy. The hospital theme would of course be irresistible to return to. For a quad this example is slightly undersized, 29x38, there doesn't seem to be any evidence of trimming. I also have some over size quads, which are a bugger to store, so I guess not all quads are created equal..

Frank Sinatra * Shirley MacLaine * Maurice Chevalier * Louis Jourdan * Juliet Prowse

I like the imitation Art Nouveau Folies Bergère image, I believe Maurice Chevalier had actually been a performer there, you wouldn't think he had the legs for it would you? I haven't seen it but it is allegedly a comedy, in that way that musicals are. Here because you just don't to get to see posters with these names on them very often any more.

Carol Heiss * Guy Rolfe * Patricia Medina * Larry Fine * Joe DeRita * Moe Howard

The Three Clowns are clearly the Three Stooges, unnecessary change of title for British audiences.

Glenn Ford * Hope Lange * Charles Boyer * Ricardo Montalban * Telly Savalas

Is he dancing or trying his anti bikini martial arts stance?

Charlie Chaplin * Laurel & Hardy * Buster Keaton * Harry Langdon * Charley Chase

Review of the silent comedy era, it's sad that my kids will probably grow up having no idea who these people were.

Arthur Mullard * Avis Bunnage * Barbara Ferris * Barbara Windsor * Bob Grant * Brian Murphy * George Sewell * Harry H. Corbett * James Booth * Queenie Watts * Roy Kinnear * Stephen Lewis * Victor Spinetti * Yootha Joyce

About as much East End street cred as you can get in one place. Even the Kray Brothers showed up for the premier. Made before Carry on Spying put her in with the crowd she is most identified with, Barbara Windsor is unmistakable in the poster. Ah, the 60's, build high for happiness...

Kenneth Williams * Bernard Cribbins * Juliet Mills * Charles Hawtrey * Donald Houston * Percy Herbert * Jim Dale

Not the standard hard core cast but Bernard Cribbins does a good job as the lead and it is one of the better ones in my opinion. The costume parodies are always less cringing than the modern day outings. Poster art isn't the best, I have seen the more interesting painted version as a postcard but not yet for sale. This may be another bank holiday re-release.

Juliet Mills * Ronald Lewis * Joan Sims * Noel Purcell * Esma Cannon Norman Rossington * Joan Hickson * Jim Dale * Deryck Guyler

Unashamedly linking to the Carry On films as part of its marketing, many of the usual faces are in it too. More daring in the art than I remember seeing in the movie itself.

Dirk Bogarde * James Robertson Justice * Samantha Eggar

Like the Carry On's, some of these posters can get expensive because the series is very collectable, even though  the art is not that great in my opinion. This is the Fourth in the Doctor series, another Sunday afternoon staple of Brit TV. Poster does have a good pic of Robertson Justice though, one of those great old comedy ogres.

Albert Finney * Susannah York * Hugh Griffith * Edith Evans * Joan Greenwood * Diane Cilento

Quirky film with the food sex scene a classic.

Letícia Román * Miriam Hopkins * Ulli Lommel *Chris Howland

May not look like a Russ Meyer film from this poster, but it is...

Tony Randall * Burl Ives * Barbara Eden * Kamala Devi

Well, Barbara Eden in a Genie movie? Who'd have thunk it...but not as Jeanie, not yet.

Kim Novak * Claire Ufland * Richard Johnson * Angela Lansbury * Leo McKern * Peter Butterworth

It worked for the Albert Finney above so...

James Garner * Dick Van Dyke * Elke Sommer * Angie Dickinson * Ethel Merman * Carl Reiner

Shirley MacLaine * Peter Ustinov * Richard Crenna

Brigitte Bardot * Jeanne Moreau

A couple of 60's glamour icons and a big gun. Works for me.

Shirley Jones * Stella Stevens * Honor Blackman * James Booth * Lionel Jeffries

Black comedy, allegedly.

Stuart Whitman * Sarah Miles * James Fox * Robert Morley * Gert Fröbe * Eric Sykes * Red Skelton * Terry-Thomas * Benny Hill * John Le Mesurier * Jeremy Lloyd * Millicent Martin

I remember my parents taking me to the cinema to see this, I think it was on with The Great Race. It even has Benny Hill in it...catchy theme tune too. Been looking for this poster for a long time...

Peter Sellers * Peter O'toole* Romy Schneider * Capucine * Paula Prentiss * Woody Allen * Ursula Andress

So happy to get this one, a classic sixties sex comedy farce, Sellers on top lecherous form, Woody before pretensions set in and Tom Jones belting out the theme tune. I have no idea how old I was the first time I saw it, but I know was too young to fully appreciate it all. That never stopped me watching it again and again every time it showed up late night on TV over the years, it was even more fun when I finally did get it all. Love it.

Peter Sellers * Victor Mature * Britt Ekland * Martin Balsam

Frank Frazetta brought in to make it look as much like Pussyact as possible with the tag lines adding no subtlety. This poster sets you a challenge to find the fox hidden it it...

Eric Morecambe * Ernie Wise * William Franklyn * April Olrich * Gloria Paul

First big screen attempt and not bad but not great. Less color in the artwork than other versions I've seen, cheaper print run I suppose.

Tony Curtis * Virna Lisi * George C. Scott * Carroll O'Connor

Always prefer my art without the Cinema banner but you just have to take what you can find.

Monica Vitti * Enrico Maria Salerno * Franco Balducci * Renzo Giovampietro * Gastone Moschin * Jole Fierro * Corrado Olmi * Raquel Welch * Jean Sorel * Capucine * Olga Villi * Anthony Steel * Gigi Ballista * Ester Carloni * Nino Marchetti * Claudia Cardinale * Pia Lindström

Sixties Euro starlets (plus Raquel) in an anthology sex comedy.

Leslie Phillips * James Robertson Justice * Shirley Anne Field * John Fraser * Joan Sims * Arthur Haynes * Fenella Fielding

One of the later ones in the series, sixth I think. Dirk Bogarde was not in it. Poster art is better than some of the earlier ones though in my opinion.

Harry H Corbett * Kenneth Williams * Jim Dale * Charles Hawtrey * Fenella Fielding * Joan Sims * Angela Douglas

Favorite Carry On film, favorite poster, favorite voice (Fenella Fielding), favorite wonderbra (also Fenella Fielding), Favorite Frying Tonight Quote!

Mocking Hammer and just all round bloody brilliant.

Sidney James * Kenneth Williams * Jim Dale * Charles Hawtrey * Joan Sims * Dany Robin

Almost, but not quite, losing that Carry On prefix. This poster is not as colorful as some of the other versions I have seen, faces are just black and white. I will have to watch for a better one but they are getting expensive. Mismatching the heads and bodies shows up in another Carry On poster artwork,  one of the Carry on Cowboy versions with the saloon door.

Sidney James * Kenneth Williams * Jim Dale * Charles Hawtrey * Joan Sims * Dany Robin

...and here is a more colorful version. Normally I try not to upgrade posters I already have but this was a bargain. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it...

Eric Morecambe * Ernie Wise * Suzanne Lloyd * Paul Stassino

Morecambe and Wise eh? Of the handful of films they made, this was the best, film really wasn't their thing. Fond memories of seeing this over Christmas as a kid, several times.

Jane Fonda * Jason Robards * Dean Jones

OK...it's not Barbarella but Jane Fonda ought to be in here somewhere.

Frankie Howerd * Dora Bryan * George Cole * Reg Varney * Raymond Huntley * Richard Wattis * Terry Scott

Modernizing these classics wasn't a great idea even in the 60's, but it is much, much better than Wildcats. Great to see George Cole with his trademark on screen theme tune and plenty of great Brit Comedy characters, though sadly not Alistair Sim. Enough time had passed since the real Biggs train robbery of '63 that it had become part of British folklore, appropriately or not, and so parody worthy.

Jerry Lewis * Connie Stevens * Robert Morley * Dennis Weaver * Howard Morris * Brian Keith * Dick Shawn * Anita Ekberg

Don't think I ever saw this, I was old enough to find Lewis annoying by now.

Michael Bentine * Dora Bryan * Harry H. Corbett * Bernard Cribbins * Diana Dors

Walter Chiari * Clare Dunne * Chips Rafferty * Alida Chelli * Ed Devereaux

Stuffed full of well known faces of the day, from veteran comedians to contemporary character actors, all going through little sketches connected by the wandering and always underestimated IMHO, Michael Bentine. At some point this poster had a stamp stuck on it and was posted to someone, no envelope! You can guess the great condition this has left it in...I gained a stamp though.

Eric Morecambe * Ernie Wise * Cecil Parker * Isobel Black

Eric and Ernie just didn't translate well to big screen...That Riviera Touch was better.

Sophia Loren * Omar Sharif

Very UN-PC tagline, talk of "taming" wouldn't be stood for these days.

Rex Harrison * Samantha Eggar * Anthony Newley * Richard Attenborough

Another one I remember my parents taking me to see, my Cousin Paul attempted songs from this on his guitar (it had no strings so not as bad as it sounds) so I guess it made an impression on him. Filmed in a village not that far from where I lived so we even did a family outing over to Castle Combe.

Michael Crawford * Oliver Reed * Harry Andrews * James Donald * Daniel Massey * Michael Hordern * Gabriella Licudi

Quirky and definitely 60's, I find Crawford annoying in this one but Ollie brilliant as ever.

Peter Cook * Dudley Moore * Eleanor Bron * Raquel Welch

I have great memories and associations with this movie, didn't see it at the cinema but it reappeared on late night TV a lot so I was generally post-pub when I saw it. Very 60's and very Pete and Dud, though I never could work out what Dud saw in the boney-chested Bron. Glad to see they shoe-horned Welch into the poster art in spite of her very limited time on screen.

Burl Ives * Troy Donahue * Gert Fröbe * Terry-Thomas * Hermione Gingold * Daliah Lavi * Lionel Jeffries * Dennis Price * Stratford Johns

Rex Harrison * Rosemary Harris * Louis Jordan * Rachel Roberts

Must have missed this one.

James Garner * Debbie Reynolds * Maurice Ronet * Terry-Thomas * Paul Lynde

Got to be the 60's with that art...though with these faces could be the 50's...

Gina Lollobrigida * Shelley Winters * Phil Silvers * Peter Lawford * Telly Savalas

Not country of origin but nice picture of La Lollo anyway.

Tony Curtis * Monica Vitti * Hugh Griffith * John Richardson * Nino Castelnuovo * Ivo Garrani

Deborah Kerr * David Niven * Robert Coote * Irina Demick * Joyce Redman * Judy Geeson * Keith Michell * Edith Evans

The swinging 60's, the Pill, those were the days. I was of course too young to really appreciate what it was all about.

Sid James * Kenneth Williams * Charles Hawtrey * Roy Castle * Joan Sims * Bernard Bresslaw * Peter Butterworth * Terry Scott * Angela Douglas

Now this is one of my favorites "I'm feeling a little plastered", "Any time is tiffin time..." Oh god yes, a classic. One of their best. Overloaded camel art similar to that for Dick.

Sid James * Kenneth Williams * Charles Hawtrey * Joan Sims * Terry Scott * Hattie Jacques * Barbara Windsor * Bernard Bresslaw * Peter Butterworth

Another poster not in great condition and probably a re-release but it's so collectable I have had to settle for what I could afford. It has the notorious Babs shot on it, what more could you want? White patch behind goat is a mystery, not a stain, seems to be where some round object was protecting it from fading. Maybe stacked with another poster that had a big round sticker on it....who knows.

Sid James * Kenneth Williams * Charles Hawtrey * Jim Dale * Joan Sims * Barbara Windsor * Hattie Jacques * Patsy Rowlands * Peter Butterworth

They just can't stay away from the old hospital farces can they? And why not...hasn't quite got the warmth but some good physical comedy by Jim Dale, doing his own stunts even.

Lynn Redgrave * Hywel Bennett * Nigel Davenport * Nigel Patrick

Always happy to see a poster with an Enfield in it...national Service was good and gone by the time I grew up, just as well.

Warren Mitchell * Dandy Nichols * Una Stubbs * Anthony Booth

Another TV classic getting its moment on the big screen to try to keep the industry alive.

David Hemmings * Joanna Pettet * George Sanders * Dany Robin * Warren Mitchell * John Bird * William Rushton * Bill Fraser

Suzanne Pleshette * Ian McShane * Hilarie Thompson * Miss Belgium

Americans touring Europe is always a good excuse to dust off some dodgy cultural stereotypes. Doesn't that bikini look positively wholesome by today's standards? Can't help think she looks a little constipated too...

Leslie Phillips * Harry Secombe * James Robertson Justice * Angela Scoular * Irene Handl * Simon Dee

Bogarde was long gone for the last in the series leaving Leslie Philip's cad as the lead, James Roberston Justice as the essential ogre. By now this series had also shown up on TV with Doctor In The House starting it all over again. Amongst the cast of the TV show was the young Stuart-Clark character, an imitation of Philip's cad who shows up as a cameo amongst the familiar faces in this one..

Hayley Mills * Oliver Read * Noel Harrison * Sheila Hancock * John Bird * Aimi Macdonald

Judging by the fashions, we must be in the 70's now...yep, Hayley is grown up.

Anthony Quinn * Claude Akins * Tony Bill * Shelley Winters

Alleged comedy on a touchy subject...I just thought it was a nice picture of Quinn.

Barbra Streisand * George Segal * Robert Klein

Streisand on the game? That, can't be right, surely?

Peter Sellers * Goldie Hawn * Tony Britton * Nicky Henson * Diana Dors

Simple art.

Albert Finney * Edith Evans * Kenneth More * Alec Guinness

Doing an Oliver! with Scrooge!

Albert Finney * Edith Evans * Kenneth More * Alec Guinness

Intersting change in Art compared to the version above. Is that a Scarfe cartoon?

Frankie Howerd * Sid James * Charles Hawtrey * Joan Sims * Terry Scott * Kenneth Connor * Bernard Bresslaw * Jacki Piper * Valerie Leon

Not one of my personal favorites even though it has all the usual cast except, Kenneth Williams. Frankie Howerd is a good substitute, it's period, sort of, and more or less from the good old days. Just never been one I enjoy, dunno why...It's even got Valerie Leon. A mystery. Possible reissue, these always got shown again at bank holidays and such.

John Alderton * Deryck Guyler * Noel Howlett * Joan Sanderson * Richard Davies * Peter Cleall * Carol Hawkins

One of the many sitcoms that filled the post God Slot on a Sunday evening for many years and got made into a film. The pupil hating Chemistry teacher Mr Price was my favorite.

Sidney James * Kenneth Williams * Charles Hawtrey * Joan Sims * Terry Scott * Barbara Windsor * Kenneth Connor

The kind of film you should skip boring meetings for and hang out with your mates watching with a beer in your hand. The film that turned me on to Garlic.

Kirk Douglas * Marlène Jobert * Trevor Howard * Tom Courtenay * Patrick Mower * Garfield Morgan * Angharad Rees

Old ruggie is back again...dropped in to this not so funny comedy for the sake of US marketing...and doesn't he look smug about it?

Eva Whishaw * Peter May * Maggie Wright * Barry Linehan * Claire Gordon * Denys Hawthorne * Heather Chasen * Gabrielle Drake

A comedy according to IMDB, I think we can see what type. Yep more Brit soft core smut, 7 tales of infidelity from the female point of view.

Felicity Devonshire * Bruce Forsyth * Bernard Bresslaw * Joan Sims * Roy Hudd * Cheryl Hall * Harry Secombe * June Whitfield * Leslie Phillips * Julie Ege * Patrick Newell * Harry H. Corbett * Cheryl Kennedy * Bill Pertwee * Anouska Hempel * Sue Bond * Ian Carmichael * Alfie Bass * Spike Milligan * Melvyn Hayes * Ronnie Barker * Peter Butterworth * Marty Feldman * Cardew Robinson * Madeline Smith * Ronald Fraser * Stephen Lewis

Look at those guest stars...you wouldn't think it would be a stinker would you? Well...

Frankie Howard * Julie Ege * Patrick Cargill * Michael Hordern * Barbara Murray * Lance Percival * Bill Fraser * Adrienne Posta

I am still a big fan of Frankie Howard and was lucky enough to see him on stage before he died. I used to watch this on TV as a kid, most of it went over my head but it never stopped me enjoying it.

Frankie Howerd * Graham Crowden * Bill Fraser * Roy Hudd * Hugh Paddick * Anna Quayle * Eartha Kitt

My Dad took me to see this but it was AA (over 14) and we were turned away. Luckily the hormones kicked in soon after this embarrassment and 70's audiences dwindled so they were less fussy at the box office soon enough.

Frankie Howerd * Bill Fraser * Hermione Baddeley * Lance Percival * Dora Bryan* Stanley Holloway * * Zsa Zsa Gabor * Madeline Smith

Didn't actually see this one at the movies, I caught it on TV much later. Amazing how few films Zsa Zsa has actually been in, for all her notoriety. Anyway, this is one of them, but it's all Frankie. Last of the Up movies, not the best but still worth a titter. Poster spotted less often than the earlier films.

Sidney James * Kenneth Williams Charles Hawtrey * Joan Sims * Hattie Jacques * Bernard Bresslaw * Kenneth Cope * Terry Scott * Barbara Windsor * Kenneth Connor

Not bad, before they started to go really down hill. I love the Carry On's so thought I would start buying the posters, I stopped with this one, there are just too many other collectors pushing prices up.

Jim Dale * Arthur Lowe * Bill Maynard * Tony Selby * Spike Milligan * Pat Coombs * Windsor Davies * Stephen Yardley * Bob Todd * Anthony Booth

Based on Spike Milligan's excellent Second World War memoirs of which this was the first book in the series.

Danny La Rue * Alfred Marks * Lance Percival * Lally Bowers * Frances de la Tour

Odd thing about Danny la Rue, he seemed to be beloved by the likes of the hairy arsed lorry driver who lived next door to us. Drag is not gay I was assured as a kid and I know La Rue isn't...but, I find it ironic that Camp is such an essential and accepted part of working class comedy. Even when bigotry was queen, clearly queer characters were hugely popular. Of course if they publicly came out of the closet, they were finished. A dated double standard in the double entendre's that looks like it is finally dying away. Good job too.

Wilfrid Brambell * Harry H. Corbett * Carolyn Seymour

Quite a depressing tale for their first big screen outing. The TV show could do downer episodes as well but the sequel Ride Again would feel better in my humble O. Great picture of the father and son in in the poster, complete with the stripper looking suitably devious..

Sidney James * Diana Coupland * Terry Scott * June Whitfield * Peter Butterworth * Sally Geeson * Robin Askwith * Carol Hawkins

If you can't beat them...one way of keeping British films alive and actors working was to make movies of popular TV series, this was a real industry for the 70's.

Patrick Cargill * Natasha Pyne * Ann Holloway * Noël Dyson

Yet another small screen to big screen excursion. I was never very sure what this sitcom was supposed to be about, other than the dad with two daughters hilarity. Just what was the situation supplying the comedy supposed to be? Generation gap? Single Dad? Seems pretty weak these days...

Warren Mitchell * Dandy Nichols * Paul Angelis * Adrienne Posta * John Le Mesurier * John Bird * Roy Hudd * Roy Kinnear * Joan Sims

Mucking around with the well known faces playing these characters (Tony Booth and Una Stubbs are MIA) and worse, changing their personalities and locations, made a mess of this sequel.

Jack Lemmon * Juliet Mills * Clive Revill * Carlo Carlucci

Dick Emery * Derren Nesbitt * Ronald Fraser * Pat Coombs * William Franklyn * Cheryl Kennedy * Norman Bird * Liza Goddard

Back in the early 70's I was too young to get up to much on a Saturday night, most of them were spent watching the telly. Dick Emery had his own show of odd character impressions which apparently earned a movie too. I wasn't very impressed at the time but I do seem to have some nostalgia for it all now. From what I remember, the film was funny for it's day with all the usual characters in it. In fact, it was awful, but I liked it. Sorry.

Laura Antonelli * Turi Ferro * Alessandro Momo * Tina Aumont

Italian smut with dark comedy elements, although it's obviously here just for the smut factor which is well represented in the art. Also an early example of the kinky stepmother antics that would get more outings in 80's American sex comedies.

Frankie Howerd * Ray Milland * Hugh Burden * Kenneth Griffith * John Bennett * Rosalie Crutchley

Frankie getting to do his tortured actor character, not one of my favorites films but it's still Frankie...look at that face...

Mark Jones * Sue Longhurst * Frank Thornton * Queenie Watts * Paul Whitsun-Jones

In spite of the cheapness of movies like this, the art is still pretty good. The version below featuring a bed in the foreground seems rarer.

Mark Jones * Sue Longhurst * Frank Thornton * Queenie Watts * Paul Whitsun-Jones

Being a true anorak I couldn't resist trying to get hold of both versions.

Sidney James * Barbara Windsor * Joan Sims * Kenneth Connor * Bernard Bresslaw * June Whitfield * Peter Butterworth * Jack Douglas * Patsy Rowlands * Jimmy Logan

Trying to catch up with the sex comedies above, Carry On's got smuttier too but it was the beginning of the end, the girls they brought in were young enough but seeing the old men chasing after them was just sad.

Richard Beckinsale * Paula Wilcox

Movie version of underappreciated TV sitcom whose two actors went on to some real classic 70's TV shows. Poster art is basic and simple but so was the series, very much a dialogue thing, ie low budget. Good though.

Leslie Phillips * Julie Ege * Bill Fraser * Moira Lister * Derren Nesbitt * Joan Sims * Barbara Windsor * Jack Hulbert * Cicely Courtnedge * Ray Cooney

More farce than sex comedy, Leslie Phillips is just such a great cad and a lot of the usual comedy faces are here.

Franco Citti * Ninetto Davoli * Nicoletta Machiavelli

Pretty unattractive character in the poster, I wonder what he is doing?

Woody Allen * Diane Keaton * John Beck * Mary Gregory * Don Keefer

I am not one of those people that find everything Woody Allen has done funny, a lot of the time he is just whinny and annoying in fact, IMHO of course. This is an earlier more slapstick effort that is pretty good though often scorned by fans of his later (and more pompous) works. The poster does a good job of summing it up.

Sid James * Barbara Windsor * Kenneth Williams * Hattie Jacques * Bernard Bresslaw * Joan Sims * Kenneth Connor * Peter Butterworth * Jack Douglas * Patsy Rowlands * Bill Maynard

The period costumes help but not enough, starting to lose it's charm with the same old jokes. I like this poster though.

Julie Ege * Diana Dors * Brendan Price * Alan Lake * Donna Reading * Roy Kinnear

More smut than comedy but nothing wrong with that. Though not a fan of Alan Lake (who was?) always good to see his long suffering wife, Diana Dors, who was something of an essential guest star in these kinds of film.

Robin Askwith * Anthony Booth * Linda Hayden * Bill Maynard * Dandy Nichols * Sheila White * John Le Mesurier * Richard Wattis

Robin Askwith's arse saved the British Film industry...strange but nearly true. This raised the tone of sex comedies by delivering on both the sex and the comedy. Same formula, better cast and writing. This movie was a huge success, another my Dad took me to see and the atmosphere was amazing in the cinema, people literally rolling in the aisles. Well, not literally but that group enjoyment you just don't get any more. Everyone came out with a grin on their faces talking about it, dominating TV and Radio for weeks with interviews.

Richard O'Sullivan * Paula Wilcox * Sally Thomsett * Brian Murphy * Yootha Joyce

This is a Hammer movie, as their Horror output went out of favor they tried to keep going by doing movies of popular TV shows of the day. Putting this in the Comedy genre seems the right place for it, it is the tail end of the Hammer history.

Ronnie Barker * Richard Beckinsale * Brian Wilde * Fulton Mackay

Norman Stanley Fletcher...another movie from a TV series. I love that they had to invent a whole new vocabulary of made up swear words to get round the language censor. Scroat I think even made it into real life occasionally. Classic series and nice rendition of Barker.

Jason Williams * Suzanne Fields * Joseph Hudgins * William Dennis Hunt * Candy Samples

I got the version below first, then broke my own rules and upgraded to get this one without the sticker over the robots. A classic...of it's type. I have great memories of seeing this as a teenager at local age flexible cinema with mate, I think we may have even skipped school for it. Cheap, exploitive and with stop motion effects that would have Harryhausen twitching in his grave. Even the smut was relatively weak. Still, a lot of fun. I've got it on video somewhere...

Jason Williams * Suzanne Fields * Joseph Hudgins * William Dennis Hunt * Candy Samples

Red sticker used to update the original poster is a bit annoying, right on top of the nasty robots and their, um, appendages. In the weird way this works sometimes, original poster cost me a lot less than this reissue but then its condition isn't as good.

Peter Sellers * Lila Kedrova * Curt Jürgens * Béatrice Romand * Jenny Hanley * Françoise Pascal * Rula Lenska

This poster is pretty much ruined, lots of water staining. I am not sure why I bought it apart from it being cheap, probably should have waited for a better condition version. Sometimes I get carried away...

David Niven * Teresa Graves * Peter Bayliss * Jennie Linden * Nicky Henson * Linda Hayden * Bernard Bresslaw * Veronica Carlson

Weirdly enough, I remember this film being released and not getting to see it for one reason or another. Since then I have never seen it on TV, Video or anywhere else. It must be out there somewhere...cast list looks interesting and I was very happy to get my hands on the poster. I wonder if I will ever see the movie?

Alan Price * Jill Townsend * Joan Collins * Sheila White

One of those showing my age rather than nostalgia, I remember this coming out as a new film and everyone trashing it because it wasn't Michael Caine. That wasn't the problem, the weak storyline was. Lots of TV faces in it or those who would be soon.

Elke Summer * Kenneth Williams * Bernard Bresslaw * Kenneth Connor * Jack Douglas * Joan Sims * Windsor Davies * Peter Butterworth * Liz Fraser

Another in my series of "maybe I will collect Carry On posters..." Though this is a relatively modern one rather than a classic, Elke Summer is quite good in the Kenneth Williams scenes, so it has its moments. Unfortunately the visual of Windsor Davies hitting on young girls is cringing...too, too old.

Robin Askwith * Anthony Booth * Carol Hawkins * Bill Maynard * Doris Hare * Sheila White * Peter Cleal * Bob Todd

With this new installment and another 19 novels to draw from, looking like becoming the most legitimate heir to the Carry On series, less sex in this one but the comedy is pretty good and the characters well rendered, especially the Lea family.

Barry Stokes * Gay Soper * Sue Lloyd * Bob Todd * Valerie Leon * Chic Murray * Robert Dorning

Definitely hints of Benny Hill in the background but I haven't seen it so can't say what its like, I can guess though...

Roger Moore * Susannah York * Shelley Winters * Lee J Cobb * Jean-Pierre Cassel

I haven't seen this one so...who makes up these tag lines?

Malcolm McDowell * Alan Bates * Florinda Bolkan * Oliver Reed * Tom Bell * Joss Ackland * Christopher Cazenove * Henry Cooper

Based on the book by George MacDonald Fraser.

Barry Evans * Judy Geeson * Adrienne Posta * Liz Fraser * Ian Lavender * Stephen Lewis * Robert Lindsay * Henry Magee

Adventures were an inconsistent series, trying to build up a confessions type following I guess. Not very good even with the usual TV faces sprinkled through it.

Probably doesn't fit in with the others since it's a documentary following Billy Connolly's stand up tour. I am a huge Connelly fan so it has to be somewhere, may as well be here.

Barry Evans * Liz Fraser * Hillary Pritchard * Penny Spencer * Peter Cleall * Jonathan Cecil * Elizabeth Counsell

Another one I haven't seen.

Nicky Henson * Trevor Howard * Terry-Thomas * Arthur Lowe * Georgia Brown * Joan Collins

A Musical would you believe? My copy arrived with some unfortunate staining right on the the, um, artwork.

Robin Askwith * Anthony Booth * Bill Maynard * Doris Hare * Sheila White * Linda Hayden * Lance Percival * John Junkin * Liz Fraser * Colin Crompton

Last and hardest to watch of the series. I am not sure why this one didn't work, maybe their moment had just passed. The slapstick certainly makes me cringe, Askwith hams it up way too much but they were all like that to some extent so it can't just be that.

Fiona Richmond * Robin Askwith * Anthony Steel * Graham Stark * Linda Hayden

Haven't seen it but the art gives a pretty good indication of what to expect in case you were unfamiliar with Ms Richmond's work.

John Inman * Mollie Sugden * Frank Thornton * Trevor Bannister * Wendy Richard

The notorious...The poster does a good caricature of the main cast, all present and politically incorrect.

Mary Millington * Suzy Mandel * Irene Handle * Alfie Bass * Harrison Marks * Ken Parry * Bob Todd * Henry McGee * Tommy Godfrey * Cardew Robinson * Talfryn Thomas " Jerry Lorden * Rita Webb * Anna Bergman * Sue Longhurst * Ronald Fraser

Never seen the movie and I missed the whole Mary Millington excitement in the 70's but certainly the art does it's job.

Christopher Neil * Suzy Kendall * Harry H Corbett * Fred Emny * Liz Fraser * Irene Handl * Ian Lavender * Julian Orchard * Jon Pertwee * Adrienne Posta * Anna Quayle * William Rushton * Robin Stewart * Diana Dors

Another confessions wannabe, haven't seen this one either but I am told that it is one of the better Adventures.

Robin Askwith * Nigel Davenport * George Layton * John Le Mesurier * Warren Mitchell * Robin Nedwell * Edward Woodward * Irene Handle * Lynda Bellingham * Pamela Stephenson * Fiesta Mei Ling

Haven't seen it, allegedly a sequel to Virgin Soldiers also by Leslie Thomas...but there's that 303 again.

John Le Mesurier * Graham Stark * Kate Williams * Angela Grant * Nicholas Field * Felicity Devonshire * Jack Douglas * Barbara Mitchell * Peter Butterworth * Bill Pertwee * Cardew Robinson

Never mind the film, enjoy the art.

Harry H Corbett * Christopher Mitchell * Melvin Hayes *Julia Goodman * Bill Pertwee * Angela Grant * Chic Murray * Beth Porter * Sheila Steafel * Hughie Green

Sequel to above, must have been a success.

Christopher Neil * Arthur Mullard * Stephen Lewis * William Rushton * Anna Quayle * Nina West * Suzy Mandel * Prudence Drage

..and another one...

Kenneth Williams * Kenneth Connor * Joan Sims * Jack Douglas * Peter Butterworth * Suzanne Danielle

The final nail in the coffin...or so we thought until the stinker that was Carry On Columbus emerged in 1992. Kenneth Williams in the wicker chair parodying the original art.

Debbie Ash * Beryl Reid * John Le Mesurier * Arthur Askey * Liz Fraser * Lance Percival * John Junkin * Bob Todd * Caroline Argyle

Along the same lines as the confessions series, and based on books from the same writer, Christopher Wood. Had all the signs of gearing up for a series, but it just wasn't that good.

Mary Millington * Alan Lake * Glynn Edwards * Derren Nesbitt * Suzy Mandel * Penny Spencer * Kenny Lynch * Sandra Dorne * Gavin Campbell * Windsor Davies

Can't make its mind up if it wants to be a sex comedy or a thriller.

Sheila Hancock * Michael Hordern * Rodney Bewes * Maureen Lipman * Julia McKenzie * Joe Melia * Veronica Quilligan * Thorley Walters

Virtually unwatchable in spite of the Page 3 girls stuffed into it. Bought it for the small Serle art...honest. Theme tune was the sound of Alistair Sim rolling in his grave...

Goldie Hawn * Chevy Chase * Charles Grodin

Artistic interpretation of Hawn's bum was main attraction on this one...

Bruce Dern * Ann-Margret * Graham Jarvis * Deborah Wakeham

...honestly bought this just because it was cheap. After I got it decided I need to be more discriminating or I am going to run out of storage space. Still, nice nightie...

Sylvia Kristel * Howard Hesseman * Eric Brown

Your basic US Sex Comedy. Contrast with the Brit version of dirty old men chasing young crumpet to US teenage boys seduced by older women. Which is healthier? Hmm....

Lawrence Monoson * Diane Franklin * Steve Antin * Joe Rubbo * Louisa Moritz * Brian Peck

Call me a weirdo (...and it's happened before) but I nearly left this one out, I don't like this poster or movie much. I remember I rented the video for this back in the 80’s, based on the box art which was fundamentally this…twenty years later I buy the poster because it reminds me of the video and remember that the film is depressing and the image obnoxiously leery. I know...odd in amongst all the images here it would be this one bothers me. Bad Karma or something...

Yftach Katzur * Zachi Noy * Jonathan Sagall

Israel's entry into the teen sex comedy genre was the Lemon Popsicle series. Can't say I've seen it but Chantrell's art is likely to express its main theme I'm sure. I bought it because it's an unfolded example and the roller skating model used for the art is interesting trivia to be found in Sim's book.

Compare this image with one above, one bothers me, the other doesn't, weird...

Kenny Everett * Pamela Stephenson * Vincent Price * Gareth Hunt * Cleo Rocos

Title promises more than it delivers on the gore but it is a lot of fun. I had higher expectations when I went to see it but it is one of those films that grows on you apparently. I have seen it since and enjoyed it a lot more than the first viewing. Probably Kenny nostalgia is a factor, taking it for granted he would be around forever and sadly not so, always good to see Vincent Price too.

Eileen Brennan * Tim Curry * Madeline Kahn * Christopher Lloyd * Michael McKean * Martin Mull * Lesley Ann Warren * Colleen Camp

Tim Curry brilliantly bug eyed and mad in this excellent post-pub Saturday night staple.

Alfred Molina * Peter Firth * Tracy Lea * Alexandra Pigg * Margi Clarke

Following in the steps of Gregory's Girl, the new wave of more grown up Brit comedies. It's not all about dirty old men any more, which has got to be good. Jamie Reid is of course best known for his Sex Pistols work as well as intimately connected with Margi Clarke.

Cassandra Peterson * W. Morgan Sheppard * Daniel Greene * Susan Kellermann * Jeff Conaway * Edie McClurg

You can't have a a tribute to cleavage site like this without a couple of entries from 80's phenomenon, Elvira.

Cassandra Peterson * W. Morgan Sheppard * Daniel Greene * Susan Kellermann * Jeff Conaway * Edie McClurg

This is some kind of fold out press book that came with the poster above. Looks like the teaser art.

Vince Murdocco * Robyn Kelly * Tony Travis * William Dennis Hunt * Morgan Fox

Oh wow, I had no idea there was a sequel until I found this poster. I wonder if the special effects have improved? I feel it my duty to seek out this movie and compare it to the original. I have to do it for art.

Rupert Everett * Colin Firth * Russell Brand * Anna Chancellor * Celia Imry * Stephen Fry

I know, a 2007 poster, what on earth am I doing? It's such a classic series I gave in to temptation...