Carry On Screaming (1966) on Netflix
Young women are vanishing from Hocombe Woods, and Doris Mann is carried off by a monster that leaves a finger behind. Detective Sergeant Sidney Bung takes the case.
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Plot summary
Doris Mann and Albert Potter are courting in Hocombe Woods when a monster called Oddbod drags Doris away, leaving a finger behind. Albert goes to the police station to report it, and Detective Constable Slobotham tells his superior, Detective Sergeant Sidney Bung, who is already looking into other disappearances in those woods. The sinister Dr. Watt kidnaps young women and turns them into mannequins for sale to local shops. Searching the woods, Bung, Slobotham and Potter come across the Bide-A-Wee Rest Home, where the butler Sockett shows them in. Valeria, the mistress of the house, awakens her electrically charged brother, Dr. Watt, and the visitors flee when he vanishes as his charge runs down.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Carry On Screaming (1966)
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- American distributors specifically asked for Charles Hawtrey, so he was added to Carry On Screaming! at the eleventh hour, replacing Sydney Bromley as Dan Dann. Hawtrey holds the unique distinction of being the only actor with a leading credit in a Carry On for less than five minutes of screen time.
- Harry H. Corbett replaced Sid James in the role of Detective Sergeant Sidney Bung because Sid James was committed to playing a robber in the pantomime Babes in the Wood at the London Palladium, which ran until June 1966.
- Deborah Kerr was initially offered the part of the seductive Valeria in the Carry On series' Hammer horror parody, but she declined the role.
- Dr Orlando Watt was written as Valeria's father until actor Kenneth Williams asked for a change so he could play a character of his own age, 39; in the finished film Orlando and Valeria are brother and sister.
- Carry On Screaming! was only the second film in the series to have a sung main title theme, and its singer was long misidentified: credited to Anon and once thought to be star Jim Dale, the voice is session singer Ray Pilgrim's. Boz Burrell released a 45 of the song in 1966 before joining King Crimson and Bad Company.
