Carry On Screaming!
- Harry H. Corbett: Detective Sergeant Bung
- Kenneth Williams: Dr. Watts
- Charles Hawtrey: Dan Then
- Joan Sims: Emily Bung
- Jim Dale: Albert Potter
- Fenella Fielding: Valeria
- Peter Butterworth: Constable Slobotham
- Bernard Bresslaw: Sockett
- Angela Douglas: Doris man
- Jon Pertwee: Dr. Fettle
- Tom Clegg: Odbodd
- Michael Ward: Mr. Vivian
- Billy Cornelius: Oddbodd Jr.
Carry on - alarm in the creepy castle is the twelfth film from the series of Carry-on ... movies.
Content
Something is mighty in wickedness in Victorian England. A monster steals virgins, which are then processed to mannequins and sold to businesses. But who is behind this monstrous crime?
Detective Sergeant Bung and Constable Slobotham have a new track, as Albert's fiancée Doris man is kidnapped and a large, strange finger remains. The trail leads to Dr. Watt and his sister Valeria. Even crazier is the situation, when suddenly a second monster was created from a finger found appears.
Comments
Carry on - alarm in the creepy castle parodied various horror and horror films, including Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mystery of the Wax Museum, The Golem, Phantom of the Opera and The Wolf Man. As the framework is an investigation in the style of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Especially in England, this film is extremely popular and is considered a classic of British film.
The cast is in this part of the series is almost identical to that of the film Carry on - In the desert, no water flows. In both Sidney James is replaced by another star. Unlike Phil Silvers Harry H. Corbett plays quite an appealing Part
The film is the last of the series, which was produced by the company Anglo - Amalgamated Productions, after all films were produced at The Rank Organisation.
The car that drives Bung in the film, is a Brushmobile from the year 1904. Overall, only six of them made . Whenever the car was used in the film, heard the theme song of the TV series Z -Cars ( 1962).
The toilets by Dan Then was at the south entrance of the Pinewood Studios. In the creepy castle of Dr. Watts is Fulmer Grange. This house is located in the immediate vicinity of the Pinewood Studios.
Reviews
- " Old and new gags occasionally among other things, the question is how do you turn young women mannequins; the accumulation of countless clichés of the genre fatigue " ( Score: 1 ½ stars = default) - Adolf Meier Heinzl and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon " Movies on TV " ( Extended edition ). . Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3, p 409-410.
- " Slapstick with occasional approaches to the horror film parody. " - " Lexicon of international film " (CD -ROM edition ), Systhema, Munich 1997.