film in the classic British comedy film series, Carry On Constable premiered at London's Plaza cinema on 25 February 1960. Reception Box Office It was the third most popular film at the British box office in 1960, after Doctor in Love and Sink the Bismarck!. Critical Variety wrote, "At times it seems that the team is hard put to it to keep up the laughter pressure but, all in all, this achieves its objective of providing harmless merriment." Geoffrey M. Warren of the Los Angeles Times noted, "Most of the gags are visual in the tradition of Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Bros. and others, though no individual performer is of this caliber of comic performer." He went on, though, to praise director Gerald Thomas for having "accomplished a remarkable amount of good cinema here. The situations are worked to perfection and always held within the limits of the possible, if just barely." The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote, "The 'Carry On' series looks like becoming an anthology of all the slap-and-tickle music-hall jokes that have ever been cracked. The laughter here centres on dropped trousers, ample bosoms, innuendoes, female impersonation, lingerie and male nudity. Out of this frayed material a little comedy is coaxed by the familiar cast as they grapple with the random situations that pass for a plot." Bibliography Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema by Simon Sheridan (third edition) (2007) (Reynolds & Hearn Books) References External links Carry On Constable at The Whippit Inn Carry On Constable at BFI Screenonline 1960 films Carry On films 1960s English-language films British crime comedy films British black-and-white films Films directed by Gerald Thomas 1960s crime comedy films Films shot at Pinewood Studios Films produced by Peter Rogers Films with screenplays by Norman Hudis 1960 comedy films 1960s British films