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Old 31st March 2023, 09:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Demoncrat View Post
Carry On Constable (1960, Gerald Thomas)

Another revisit. Hawtrey embodies camp as a locum officer sent in to bolster the ranks after a flu epidemic depletes the workforce, with Ken W at his poshest, Ken C at his jitteryist (?) and Leslie P as the archetypal smoothie. Sid shouts a lot
Can I revise my opinion and say this is the gentlest CO cough cough. Barely a whiff of sordidness here, just a case of fishes out of water finding their feet etc.
As someone who's dad was a rozzer in the 60's - 80's (he worked the vice squad in Southampton in the late 60's and early 70's), can I just say that this is very close to what it was actually like!


Or maybe I'm lying!!
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