Carry on Screaming (1966)

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Directed by Gerald Thomas

Running Time: 100 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1966

Rating: PG Certificate

Production Country: UK

Filmed in Colour

The Carry On team's foray into the world of horror films remains one of their finest send-ups, with loving references to a slew of classic horror films combined with the usual mix of excruciating puns.

Albert Potter (Jim Dale) is necking with his girlfriend Doris Mann (Angela Douglas) when she is mysteriously abducted, the latest in a line of strange kidnappings. Scotland Yard's finest, Det Sgt Bung (Harry H. Corbett) and his incompetent sidekick Constable Slobotham (Peter Butterworth) are on the case and the trail leads to the house of Dr Watt (Kenneth Williams) and his sister Valeria (a very vampish Fenella Fielding). Could the good doctor be abducting young women and turning them into life-like mannequins for shop windows?

Gerald Thomas, who directed all the Carry On films, and the cast have a ball: they even manage to throw in a werewolf sequence when Bung and Potter accidentally drink the wrong potion, and there's a nice homage as the theme tune to Steptoe and Son plays as Bung mounts his horse and clip-clops down the street. And, of course, there's Williams's immortal line as he meets his end in a vat of boiling oil: "Frying tonight!"

Highly recommended.

Cast

Image for Harry H. CorbettHarry H. CorbettDet. Sgt. Sidney Bung
Image for Kenneth WilliamsKenneth WilliamsDoctor Orlando Watt
Image for Jim DaleJim DaleAlbert Potter
Charles HawtreyDan Dann
Image for Fenella FieldingFenella FieldingValeria Watt
Image for Joan SimsJoan SimsEmily Bung
Angela DouglasDoris Mann
Bernard BresslawSockett
Image for Peter ButterworthPeter ButterworthDet. Constable Slobotham
Jon PertweeDoctor Fettle
Michael WardMr. Vivian
Tom CleggOddbod
Billy CorneliusOddbod Junior
Norman MitchellCabby
Frank ThorntonMr. Jones

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