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Carry On Screaming..or Hammer and Chuckle!
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Carry On Screaming! is the twelfth "Carry On" film. Of the regular cast, it features Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Bernard Bresslaw and Peter Butterworth. It guest stars Harry H. Corbett and Fenella Fielding, and also includes appearances by Jon Pertwee, Frank Thornton and Angela Douglas.
It combined the humour of the Carry On series with the gothic feel of the Hammer horror films which were also popular at the time.
Contents
- 1 Plot
- 2 Background
- 3 Cast
- 4 Trivia
- 5 External links
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Plot
Zombie Dr Watt (
Kenneth Williams) and his sister, seductive
vampire Valaria (
Fenella Fielding), kidnap women and turn them into mannequins. They use their monster Oddbod (a cross between
Frankenstein's monster and a
werewolf) to kidnap the women. The case is investigated by Sergeant Bung (
Harry H. Corbett) and Constable Slobotham (
Peter Butterworth).
Background
Production of the film ran from
10 January 1966 to
25 February 1966.
The film was shot at
Pinewood Studios and on location at Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.
Cast
Trivia
- Charles Hawtrey was added at the 11th hour, after American distributors specifically requested him, as he was such a hit and crowd-pleaser with audiences there.
- Sergeant Bung's car is a 1904 Brushmobile. The Brush company was based in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England and only six of these cars were made.
- Whenever Bung is using his car the soundtrack plays a variation of "Johnny Todd", the theme to the TV series Z Cars, which featured the latest car-based police of the 1960s. When Bung rides on the horse and cart the tune "Old Ned" is used: this is the theme to the sitcom Steptoe and Son which also starred Harry H. Corbett.
- Due to stage commitments Sid James was unavailable for the film, so Harry H.Corbett was drafted in to replace him. Despite this, the character name Sidney Bung was retained, in keeping with James's characters on TV and film being named after him. Joan Sims played the catty long-suffering officer's wife.
