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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 77267" data-attributes="member: 23">Tee hee. And thank you. <img src="http://yoursmiles.org/msmile/misc/m0719.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hat:" title="Hat&nbsp; &nbsp; :hat:" data-shortname=":hat:" />Absolutely.In terms of reputation I agree that it&#039;s Rothwell&#039;s films that are in the public consciousness of most Brits today. For most people the term &quot;Carry On&quot; would probably bring a scene or soundbite from one of his films to mind. He did write nineteen-and-a-bit after all, compared with Hudis&#039;s six.But let&#039;s not play down the success of the Hudis-scripted films. Sergeant was the third most successful film of the year in Britain which was the reason a follow-up was made.Nurse topped the British box office for 1959 and was the most successful Carry On in terms of bums on seats in the cinema - both at home and in America.I would guess (but don&#039;t know for sure) that things may look quite different in terms of television screenings and home media. Rothwell&#039;s scripts have the advantage of being mostly in glorious colour, meaning networks were more likely to screen them at a time when colour television was a new technology and home audiences had an aversion to their sets displaying black and white images. Only one of Hudis&#039;s scripts was shot in colour.Whether Rothwell&#039;s scripts are better than Hudis&#039;s is another matter entirely and I suppose a subjective one.On a related note, I think the Rank films have been treated better for home media. With one or two exceptions the only Carry Ons I recall being shown on TV in the Eighties and Nineties were the Ranks. That may not mean the first dozen weren&#039;t shown. Perhaps I just didn&#039;t notice them (believe it or not, there were a number of Carry Ons that were new to me when I collected them on VHS in the latter part of the Nineties). It&#039;s only very recently that the Anglo-Amalgamated and Rank films have been packaged together on DVD. Prior to that it was the Ranks that had the sparkly box sets while the Anglos were only released individually. The Ranks also had special editions with bonus features for some time before the Anglos were given the same treatment.Perhaps that trend is now reversing though. After all, the first four films to be cleaned up for Blu-ray are Cleo, Cowboy, Screaming and Jack.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 77267, member: 23"] Tee hee. And thank you. :hat: Absolutely. In terms of reputation I agree that it's Rothwell's films that are in the public consciousness of most Brits today. For most people the term "Carry On" would probably bring a scene or soundbite from one of his films to mind. He did write nineteen-and-a-bit after all, compared with Hudis's six. But let's not play down the success of the Hudis-scripted films. [I]Sergeant[/I] was the third most successful film of the year in Britain which was the reason a follow-up was made. [I]Nurse [/I]topped the British box office for 1959 and was the most successful[I] [/I]Carry On in terms of bums on seats in the cinema - both at home and in America. I would guess (but don't know for sure) that things may look quite different in terms of television screenings and home media. Rothwell's scripts have the advantage of being mostly in glorious colour, meaning networks were more likely to screen them at a time when colour television was a new technology and home audiences had an aversion to their sets displaying black and white images. Only one of Hudis's scripts was shot in colour. Whether Rothwell's scripts are better than Hudis's is another matter entirely and I suppose a subjective one. On a related note, I think the Rank films have been treated better for home media. With one or two exceptions the only Carry Ons I recall being shown on TV in the Eighties and Nineties were the Ranks. That may not mean the first dozen [I]weren't[/I] shown. Perhaps I just didn't notice them (believe it or not, there were a number of Carry Ons that were new to me when I collected them on VHS in the latter part of the Nineties). It's only very recently that the Anglo-Amalgamated and Rank films have been packaged together on DVD. Prior to that it was the Ranks that had the sparkly box sets while the Anglos were only released individually. The Ranks also had special editions with bonus features for some time before the Anglos were given the same treatment. Perhaps that trend is now reversing though. After all, the first four films to be cleaned up for Blu-ray are[I] Cleo, Cowboy, Screaming [/I]and [I]Jack[/I]. [/QUOTE]

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