Carry On (film) explained

Carry On
Director:	Dinah Shurey
Producer:	Dinah Shurey Victor Peers
Cinematography:	Desmond Dickinson Randal Terraneau
Studio:	Britannia Films
Distributor:	Gaumont British Distributors
Runtime:	7,050 feet^[1]
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English

Carry On is a 1927 British silent drama film directed by Dinah Shurey and starring Moore Marriott, Trilby Clark and Alf Goddard.

Production

Carry On! deals with British military experiences in the First World War. For the production, Shurey borrowed warships from the Royal Navy.^[2]

In November 1927, The Brisbane Courier described the picture as “a British propaganda film”.^[3]

Cast

• Moore Marriott as Mick Trevorn
• Trilby Clark as Sylvia
• Alf Goddard as Lumley
• Johnny Butt as Barker
• Mickey Brantford as Mick – as a Child
• Aggie Brantford as Molly – as a Child
• Cynthia Murtagh as Molly
• C. M. Hallard as John Peters
• Patrick Aherne as Bob Halliday
• Lewis Shaw as Bob – as a Child
• Frank Atherley as Admiral Halliday
• Griffith Humphreys as Mr. Freeman
• Wyndham Guise as Oliver Trevorn
• Leal Douglas as Mrs. Trevorn
• Wally Patch as Andrews

Bibliography

• Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1918–1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.
• Wood, Linda. British Films 1927–1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

Notes and References

1. Low p.345
2. Bibi Berki, “The Film Society, 1930” in Film International 16, no. 3 (1 September 2018), 12
3. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/21194230 “Miss Leal Douglas, Australian film actress, returns”