1963, what a year! Pt1 typical of the time British comedy films

With my upcoming birthday I thought I'd look at some of the films that were released in 1963, there were some great, and not so great, movies releases that year.

You can't have any list of British comedy films without at least one Carry On film:

Carry On Cabby, a good Carry On movies but not great, a successful taxi company suddenly have a rival, a firm with exclusively good looking female drivers are encroaching on their patch, but who's their boss? Sid James and Hattie Jacques star alongside the usual suspects with the exception of Kenneth Williams, they all give a good Carry On performance.

Next up one in the Doctor series of hospital light comedies, Doctor in Distress starring Dirk Bogarde and James Robinson Justice (playing the same role as he does in virtually every film, but he does it so well!) It's good light entertainment, good for a chuckle but it wont provide a belly laugh, like most of these type of films great for a rainy Sunday afternoons entertainment. 

Any film starring Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries and Bernard Cribbins is going to be fun, and The Wrong Arm of the Law is fun when a gang of British crims team up with Scotland Yard to get rid of a gang of Australian crims!

One of my favorite Miss Marple will always be Margret Rutherford and in '63 they released Murder at the Gallop, and as you might have guessed this has something to do with horses! Margret Rutherford was a bit of a character and it's worth checking out this documentary on her.

Margret Rutherford and Bernard Cribbins, alongside Ron Moody star in The Mouse on the Moon, the sequel to the brilliant The Mouse that Roared, this time the Duchy of Grand Fenwick are aiming for the moon, the Americans and Russians want to beat them to it! It's worth watching both movies back to back brilliant entertainment with some of the cream of British comedic acting for the time.

Probably one of the most recognisable films of '63 has got to be Cliff Richards Summer Holiday, I don't think I need to explain any further, and as a special treat the above video is the sing along for the theme song!