Don't listen to the negative reviews

A lot of fun.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

I wish I could get with this series. I seem to remember enjoying one or two when they were first released. But now, years later, they mostly add up to a not very successful television comedy program dependent on weird-looking characters, slapstick, and weak jokes. This one centers around the conflict between the love-starved Hattie Jacques and her cabby husband, Sid James. There is an abundance of ancillary characters.I'll give an example of the humor. Charles Hawtrey, who looks like my Grandma, is constantly falling over things, frequently while carrying some delicate objects like tea cups. He falls over empty petrol cans, a table, and so forth. His goal: to become a cab driver.Hawtrey shows up at the cab company and applies for a job. His name is "Terry Tankard" but the boys all call him "Pint pot" -- "because of my name, Tankard, you see?" Sid James squints at him oddly and asks, "You're sure it was PINT pot?" (Joke.) It's all very cheerful, from the jaunty opening tune, and very working class in its plot, its humor, and its characters. And that was probably the intent. Keep it simple and only slightly off color. It probably amused undemanding audiences.But the industry in Britain was capable of far more than this sort of thing. I'll only mention the Ealing comedies of the 50s and early 60s in passing. Maybe my neurology has evolved (or devolved) but the Carry On series seems much less impressive now than it did in the early 60s. Not insulting and not dated, just a bit stale. I can imagine others finding the more amusing.

Carry on Cabby was one of the best films in the series when I viewed it the first time. Watching it again confirms that it is really good. Sid James plays the owner of a cab company. He is obsessed with his work and he ignores his wife played by Hattie Jacques. Kenneth Conner plays the mechanic for the cab company. Charles Hawtrey play a reckless person who is hired to drive a cab. He scares Sid out of his mind when he takes him on a trial drive. Liz Fraser returns from her first outing in Carry on Cruising. She plays the girlfriend of Kenneth. She works in the café and is a friend of Hattie's. One of my favorites, Jim Dale makes his first appearance. He flags down Sid'd cab to take his wife to the hospital. They are expecting a baby. Sid arrives home late for a date and his wife decides she's had enough. She decides to start her own female cab company. She hires women that are very attractive and they take a lot of males away from Sid'd business. He finally finds out she is behind it. Hattie and Liz are kidnapped in their cab by crooks. She is able to let Sid know where they are. All of the cabs and the police track them down. It turns out Hattie is going to have a child and all is forgiven. Amanda Barrie has a small role as one of the female cab drivers. She is absolutely gorgeous. She would go on to play Cleo in Carry on Cleo. She was perfect for that role.

A classic. This the carry on to start with. Everyones is giving 100% effort. The cast are all enjoying it. Hattie is great as the nagging wife of Charlie Hawkins ( Sid of course).Charles Hawtrey is having the time of his life. This film lacks Kenneth Williams and Joan Sims but is still a classic.Kenneth Connor is great as Ted. and Liz Frazer is marvellous as Sally . Bill Owen makes an appearance he's great as well!!!. Jim Dale makes his first Carry on film and he is great as the expectant father. Overall 100/100. This is what true carry on is. Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas made a Fantastic film even after 43 years it still stands out.!!!

Filmed during the early 1960's and in Black and White too, this is a movie that highlights the early struggle between the sexes, the sexes that are the Husband and Wife relationship of the Hawkins. With the wonderful Hattie Jakes as the repressed and neglected wife of the taxi firm owner, Sid James.Before the Carry On phenomenon took hold during the seventies, (this little classic coming from the writing combinations of Sidney Green and Richard Hills, the screenplay, of course, is by Talbot Rothwell). Carry On Cabby shows itself to be very funny and at the same time an intelligent movie that had not yet found its niche that had made them so ever popular.Cabby, with its own unique style for an early effort, we are shown a more serious social topic, and in between the gags that come rolling in, which never fail to amuse, we have the very funny Charles Hawtrey as the comic relief, fantastic all the way. With the cast of great British talent as Kenneth Connor, Liz Frazer and his Carry On debut, Jim Dale. What Cabby does not have, yet, is the late Kenneth Williams.Carry On Cabby with its issues of sex discrimination and a battle of the sexes that occurs when the women take a stand against the ignorance and proud male dominance is done in a way that will have you in a pleasant and fond appreciation of how British movies of this elk were made, in a fine and inoffensive manner that was only meant to do what it does best, entertain, delight and without fail, make you laugh.Hail a Cab, Hail a Carry On Cab. Timeless Classic, one of the best.