By Richard Harland Smith
Carry on Screaming!
Brief Synopsis
A clueless police detective tries to stop a mad scientist.
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Gerald Thomas
Director
Kenneth Williams
Jim Dale
Harry H. Corbett
Fenella Fielding
Alan Hume
Cinematographer
Film Details
Also Known As
Carry on Vampire, Screaming
Genre
Comedy
Horror
Release Date
1966
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 37m
Sound
Mono
Color
Color (Eastmancolor)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.66 : 1
Synopsis
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. Fortunately for Dr Watt, Detective-Sergeant Bung is on the case, and he doesn't have a clue! In this send up of the Hammer Horror movies, there are send-ups of all the horror greats from Frankenstein to Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde.
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Gerald Thomas
Director
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Film Details
Also Known As
Carry on Vampire, Screaming
Genre
Comedy
Horror
Release Date
1966
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 37m
Sound
Mono
Color
Color (Eastmancolor)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.66 : 1
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Carry on Screaming -
Having already spoofed postwar British life (Carry on Nurse, Carry on Teacher, both 1959) and the tourist trade in Carry on Cruising (1962), the makers of the "Carry On" films (Great Britain's longest running film series, consisting of more than thirty titles) turned their attention to cinema, mocking the James Bond movies with Carry On Spying (1964) and the epic Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton misfire Cleopatra (1963) with the vastly more diverting Carry On Cleo (1964). It was inevitable that the troupe's satirical barbs would be brought to bear against the Gothic tropes of the Hammer horrors, the result being Carry On Screaming (1966), one of the biggest hits of 1966. Though series frontman Sidney James was absent due to illness (and replaced by Harry H. Corbett in his one and only "Carry On" appearance), regulars Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, and Bernard Breslaw returned to tender the one-liners and double entendres with trademark acuity. The Hammer films were not Carry On Screaming's only target; the naming of Kenneth Williams' character, Dr. Watt, is a sly allusion to the BBC kiddie show Dr. Who. (Four years later, Jon Pertwee, appearing here in his second of four "Carry On" films, would be cast as the third Dr. Who.) Contributing to the ghoulish goings on a saucy spin on Morticia Addams is Fenella Fielding, who Fielding later supplied the pertly menacing voice of The Village in the enigmatic ITV series The Prisoner, starring Patrick McGoohan.
By Richard Harland Smith
By Richard Harland Smith
Carry on Screaming -
Having already spoofed postwar British life (Carry on Nurse, Carry on Teacher, both 1959) and the tourist trade in Carry on Cruising (1962), the makers of the "Carry On" films (Great Britain's longest running film series, consisting of more than thirty titles) turned their attention to cinema, mocking the James Bond movies with Carry On Spying (1964) and the epic Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton misfire Cleopatra (1963) with the vastly more diverting Carry On Cleo (1964). It was inevitable that the troupe's satirical barbs would be brought to bear against the Gothic tropes of the Hammer horrors, the result being Carry On Screaming (1966), one of the biggest hits of 1966. Though series frontman Sidney James was absent due to illness (and replaced by Harry H. Corbett in his one and only "Carry On" appearance), regulars Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, and Bernard Breslaw returned to tender the one-liners and double entendres with trademark acuity. The Hammer films were not Carry On Screaming's only target; the naming of Kenneth Williams' character, Dr. Watt, is a sly allusion to the BBC kiddie show Dr. Who. (Four years later, Jon Pertwee, appearing here in his second of four "Carry On" films, would be cast as the third Dr. Who.) Contributing to the ghoulish goings on a saucy spin on Morticia Addams is Fenella Fielding, who Fielding later supplied the pertly menacing voice of The Village in the enigmatic ITV series The Prisoner, starring Patrick McGoohan.
By Richard Harland Smith
Quotes
A young lady has disappeared and we're anxious to trace her whereabouts.- Det Sgt. Bung
Oh? Whereabouts?- Dr. Watt
Hereabouts.- Det Sgt. Bung
At ten o'clock.- Albert
Or thereabouts.- Det Sgt. Bung
Oddbodd, what happened to your ear?- Dr. Watt
Oh, never mind. Ear today, gone tomorrow!- Dr. Watt
This ear was found in Slocombe woods.- Det Sgt. Bung
What. This ear?- Valeria
Yes, that there.- Det Sgt. Bung
Frying tonight!- Dr. Watt
Sarge, she's as hard as a rock!- Constable Slobotham
You don't have to tell me that, I've been married to her for fifteen years!- Det Sgt. Bung
