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
Frank Forsyth	...	Desk Sergeant
Anthony Sagar	...	Policeman
Sally Douglas	...	Girl
Marianne Stone	...	Mrs. Parker
Denis Blake	...	Rubbatiti
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Gerald Thomas	...	Oddbod Junior (voice) (uncredited)

Directed by
Gerald Thomas

Writing credits
Talbot Rothwell		(screenplay)

Produced by
Frank Bevis	....	associate producer
Peter Rogers	....	producer

Original Music by
Eric Rogers

Cinematography by
Alan Hume		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Rod Nelson-Keys		(as Rod Keys)

Casting by
Weston Drury Jr.		(uncredited)

Art Direction by
Bert Davey

Costume Design by
Emma Selby-Walker

Makeup Department
Stella Rivers	....	hairdressing
Geoffrey Rodway	....	makeup artist (as Geoff Rodway)

Production Management
Ron Jackson	....	unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Peter Bolton	....	assistant director

Art Department
Ted Ambrose	....	draughtsman (uncredited)
George Noonan	....	prop buyer (uncredited)
Helen Thomas	....	set dresser (uncredited)

Sound Department
Ken Barker	....	sound recordist
Arthur Ridout	....	sound editor
C.C. Stevens	....	sound recordist
Paul Smith	....	assistant sound editor (uncredited)
Vivian Temple-Smith	....	sound camera operator (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Godfrey A. Godar	....	camera operator (as Godfrey Godar)
John Crawford	....	focus puller (uncredited)

Editorial Department
Selwyn Petterson	....	assistant editor (uncredited)

Music Department
Eric Rogers	....	conductor

Other crew
Penny Daniels	....	continuity
Joy Bayley	....	production secretary (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Peter Rogers Productions (as Ethiro)

Distributors

• Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors (1966) (UK) (theatrical) (presents) (as Anglo Amalgamated)
• Sigma III Corp. (1967) (USA) (theatrical)
• Warner-Pathé Distributors (1966) (UK) (theatrical) (released throughout the United Kingdom by) (as Warner - Pathe Distribution Ltd.)
• Anchor Bay Entertainment (2002) (USA) (DVD)
• Sinister Cinema (????) (USA) (VHS)
• Warner Home Video (1988) (UK) (VHS)

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:

Charles Hawtrey was an 11th hour casting choice

Quotes:

Dr. Watt: Oh this is awful, I wish I was dead.
Valeria: But Orlando, you are dead.
Dr. Watt: So I am, what a life.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The 100 Greatest Scary Moments (2003) (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?