Carry on Screaming! (1966)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Gerald Thomas

Writer:

Talbot Rothwell (screenplay)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror

Tagline:

Carry On Screaming with the Hilarious CARRY ON Gang!!

Plot:

The sinister Dr Watt has an evil scheme going. He's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores...

Plot Keywords:

Carry On | Sequel | Mad Scientist | Independent Film

Cast

Harry H. Corbett	...	Detective Sergeant Sidney Bung
Kenneth Williams	...	Doctor Orlando Watt
Jim Dale	...	Albert Potter
Charles Hawtrey	...	Dan Dann
Fenella Fielding	...	Valeria Watt
Joan Sims	...	Emily Bung
Angela Douglas	...	Doris Mann
Bernard Bresslaw	...	Sockett
Peter Butterworth	...	Detective Constable Slobotham
Jon Pertwee	...	Doctor Fettle
Michael Ward	...	Mr. Vivian
Tom Clegg	...	Oddbod
Billy Cornelius	...	Oddbod Junior
Norman Mitchell	...	Cabby
Frank Thornton	...	Mr. Jones

Also Known As:

Carry on Vampire
Screaming

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) | Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Peter Rogers Productions

Trivia:

Due to illness Sid James had to pull out of the movie, and so Harry H. Corbett was drafted in to replace him. Despite this, his character name Sidney Bung, was kept. Sid James's characters on TV and film were very often also called Sid.

Quotes:

Dr. Watt: Frying tonight!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Carry on Snogging (1998) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Carry on Screaming

"Foul Feet Smell Something Horrible"

This one was my favourite Carry On when a kid, it's one of a few I can force myself to watch nowadays. I think I could stick with Khyber and Cleo but the rest forget it. Throughout the series from '58 to '70 there were some good moments, some ace smart-ass one-liners but a lot of swamp to crawl through, the humour eventually ending up in the gutter from '70 on. I left them all to it there and then.

Harry Corbett and Kenneth Williams have some great lines, in this version of Frankenstein - stealing women to "vitrify" into shop dummies. Williams: "I wish I was dead"; Fielding: "Don't you remember, you are"; Williams: "Oh yes. What a life!" And on and on, knockabout Music Hall and Variety stuff, some original but plenty borrowed from all sources from Abbott and Costello, the Addams Family, Will Hay etc. But in COS it generally works: therefore I admit I must still like it. I wish that Sid James had been in it as well, but I'm glad Barbara Windsor wasn't.

Maybe it's my rose-tinted spectacles kicking in with this one, but why on Earth do the Carry On films generally seem more popular now in the Noughties UK than 30 years ago?