
Roger Lewis writes, 'No one can forget Amanda Barrie, sexier than Elizabeth Taylor, as the nympho of the Nile, in Carry On Cleo. The Carry On series represents a vanished England that is on view – before being appreciative of feminine beauty (the crumpet) was criminalised, and when people pulled together and went on camping holidays or a charabanc trip to Brighton, and abroad meant filthy food and broken plumbing.