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Love ‘em or loathe ‘em, the Carry On films entertained cinema audiences with their naff jokes, bawdy humour and naughty innuendos for 34 years, with a long shelf-life beyond that. Thirty-one films were made between Carry On Sergeant (1958) and the awful Carry On Columbus (1992), during which time a gang of popular comic actors and comedians formed a now-legendary team that made the series so popular. Now it's time to see which of those great Carry On stars made the most films...

The bespectacled, spindly-framed Charles Hawtrey came next, with 23 films. Another debut from Carry On Sergeant, he was often the eager innocent in the early C-Os. In the period films he was Charles Hawtrey, the eccentric high-camp Englishman, whether he was the Duc de Pommfrit in Carry On Don’t Lose Your Head or Private Widdle in Carry On Up the Khyber. As Chief Big Heap in Cowboy, only Hawtrey could...

When thinking of a country fairly new to mainstream film making, that has the young naivety and sheer brass neck to take a (or three) movie genre, turn it on its head and shake it until something truly weird falls out, Russia would probably be our first bet. Well it seems we forgot about Turkey where local director Murat Aslan has set about creating Mad Turks a bizarre contemporary, action comedy, with of looks of ‘Platoon‘ meets 'Carry on up the Jungle’ with more than a hint of cheesy 80s 'A-team' thrown in? Bad, or so bad it’s good. So often it’s a fine line. You decide. Synopsis: When the richest businessman in Turkey is kidnapped by Somali pirates off the coast of Africa, the Turkish government decide to send a military team to get him back. However the diplomatic dept, concerned about international relations and upsetting...

When thinking of a country fairly new to mainstream film making, that has the young naivety and sheer brass neck to take a (or three) movie genre, turn it on its head and shake it until something truly weird falls out, Russia would probably be our first bet. Well it seems we forgot about Turkey where local director Murat Aslan has set about creating Mad Turks a bizarre contemporary, action comedy, with of looks of ‘Platoon‘ meets 'Carry on up the Jungle’ with more than a hint of cheesy 80s 'A-team' thrown in? Bad, or so bad it’s good. So often it’s a fine line. You decide. Synopsis: When the richest businessman in Turkey is kidnapped by Somali pirates off the coast of Africa, the Turkish government decide to send a military team to get him back. However the diplomatic dept, concerned about international relations and upsetting...

When thinking of a country fairly new to mainstream film making, that has the young naivety and sheer brass neck to take a (or three) movie genre, turn it on its head and shake it until something truly weird falls out, Russia would probably be our first bet. Well it seems we forgot about Turkey where local director Murat Aslan has set about creating Mad Turks a bizarre contemporary, action comedy, with of looks of ‘Platoon‘ meets 'Carry on up the Jungle’ with more than a hint of cheesy 80s 'A-team' thrown in? Bad, or so bad it’s good. So often it’s a fine line. You decide. Synopsis: When the richest businessman in Turkey is kidnapped by Somali pirates off the coast of Africa, the Turkish government decide to send a military team to get him back. However the diplomatic dept, concerned about international relations and upsetting...