Contemporary parallels with "Carry on Up the Khyber"

[Benbow]

I confess that I have a weakness for the early Carry On films, that are cleverer and not as non-PC as the later ones (I am 54, so past caring how that revelation affects anyone's opinion of me). Anyway, to get to the point, Channel 4 is broadcasting "Carry on up the Khyber" this evening; and just before the dinner party scene in which the characters exchange small talk while the mortars fall around them, there is a scene where a chap says, "It looks pretty bad, sir, what are we going to do?" The Sid James character (the Governor?) replies, "Do? Nothing. We are British, we are going to do nothing. We are going to carry on as if nothing as happened."

Like, with posters plastered up all around depicting the four suspects, no one checks the passports of any passengers leaving Britain on EuroStar. The suspect continuing to use his mobile phone all the way to Rome was another lucky break for the investigation - and us.

I was a teenager in the 1960s, and I like the weedy Austin Powers films, too - "groovy baby" - isn't it dreadful!

[evermind]

1. Well, "do nothing" seems to be Blair's advice, too. Just "carry on"

following Bush's orders in his case, I suspect it means.

Certainly he doesn't think he should reconsider his disastrous foreign policy, or make any attempt to understand how he's got us where we are..

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. It seems weird that he got out via Eurostar

At about the time he did, I boarded a cross-channel ferry to France, and not only did they check all passports, they had armed policemen, asked the "did you pack your baggage yourself" questions, and checked under our car with a mirror.

[T_i_B]

3. Carry on up the Kyber?

Ooh, can I be private Widdle? :-)

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Is it too early for a spot of tiffin?

I think it would set me up nicely for the afternoon.

I seem to remember Halliwell's Film Guice gives '.. Up the Khyber' 3 stars, saying it's the quintessential Carry On film - all the required double entendres, but with a dash of satire on Britishness, that would fit in a Boulting Brothers film.

[T_i_B]

5. Now Muriel...

Any time is Tiffin time!

Insert filthy Sid James laugh here. :rofl: