CARRY ON DICK is one of the last in the long-running series and indeed the last proper CARRY ON film to feature the likes of Sid James, Barbara Windsor, and many others of the core team. It's also a last gasp for their historical romps (the previous of which was CARRY ON HENRY), and it's as low brow and crude as the title would suggest.It's a shame to see that the scripts by this stage had become so puerile because the cast were clearly still game for a laugh and you get a feeling of wasted talent. James is as irresistible as ever, playing a DOCTOR SYN-style figure masquerading as a clergyman by day and acting the highwayman by night, and there are fairly substantial roles for Bernard Bresslaw and an on-form Barbara Windsor. Sad then that about halfway through you realise the script is a complete rip-off of the earlier CARRY ON DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD, only inferior in every respect.It's been said that writer Talbot Rothwell had a breakdown while authoring the script for CARRY ON DICK, which would understandably be his last film for the franchise, and his paucity of imagination is more than evident. There are tired phallic jokes galore, along with one raunchy scene following another. Only a few moments offer genuine laughs, but it's nevertheless a treat to see the pros going through the old routines one last time.

The 26th film of the series, Carry on Dick marked the end of an era for a number of reasons. It would be the last appearance of Sid James, Hattie Jaques and Barbara Windsor, and the last to be scripted by Talbot Rothwell. As the title suggests, by this time the series had gone fully into innuendo mode, here they take the Dick Turpin legend and cloak it with sexual nudge nudges and wink winks. Character names are a riot, Reverend Flasher - Big Dick - Desmond Fancey (AKA: Dandy Desmond), Jock Strapp and Constable (ooh-err, it's all about the pronunciation - the rascals), thus it's all very low-brow for sure.It's great to have Sid James in a period set dual role again (as in Don't Lose Your Head), he's nicely restrained as Reverend Flasher and on the other side he's all throaty laughs and cheek as the randy dandy highwayman, Big Dick! Playing the usual sexy foil to James is Windsor in one of her more meaty roles in the series, though Peter Butterworth and Kenneth Connor are not given nearly enough material to make a telling mark. Great to see Kenny Williams given some pompous caricature to get his teeth into, even if - unlike James' characters, this double act with Jack Douglas does feel like a lazy retread from Carry on Don't Lose Your Head.Carry On Behind would follow this one, a decent enough film that with hindsight should have been the closure for the series. Carry on Dick tried to keep the rompy end up (ooh-err) for the series, a last hurrah grasping onto the historical/period pictures that proved so popular in the previous decade. It's not a fitting farewell for some major players, but some great gags and spirited performances ensure it doesn't disgrace itself in the eyes of the fans who liked a bit of sauce with their "Carry On" sandwich. 7/10

I love the Carry On movies, and while I as I've said I do agree this is not one of their best, it is the last entertaining Carry On film. The story is thin and there are a lot of innuendos and some of them are very smutty. But with the costumes and sets and such as good as they are, the film looks really good, and the music is quirky and energetic. The script is funny and well delivered on the whole, while the film is well paced. Carry on Dick is probably chiefly memorable for being Sidney James's last Carry On. He is very good as Turpin/Reverend Flasher, if occasionally overdoing it with his trademark laugh. He is well supported by Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jaques, but Barbara Windsor gives one of her best performances and even Jack Douglas is good. In conclusion, entertaining I think, and on a side note it wasn't the same when Talbot Rothwell left and James died, the writing became crass and most of the entries then were woeful I felt. 7/10 for Carry on Dick. Bethany Cox

Well what a good Carry On Film for Sid James, Barbara Windsor and Hattie Jacques to retire from the series on.The Carry On team produced some great historical comedies but this was the one for me personally. Sid James was made for the part of Dick Turpin/Reverend Flasher. Usual cast together for one last time, Kenneth Williams and Kenneth Connor, Bernard Bresslaw. the whole gang.What a good idea to do a historical comedy set around Dick Turpin, one of England's most notorious highwaymen of the 16th century. The Carry on Gang have done the series proud. In his last carry on appearance Sid James still manages to steal the film as his character. LAST OF THE GREAT CARRY ONS! The series began to decline after this one, one reason NO SID James!