Tuesday, 8 December 2015

Carry On Screaming (1966 Gerald Thomas)

I had only just been thinking how the brother in Fargo reminded me of Oddbod in this.

Almost gave up, so much were Harry H Corbett, Jim Dale and Peter Butterworth overacting. Then things improve with Fenella Fielding (a sort of pantomime Joan Greenwood) and Kenneth Williams (who I guess was in a way a latter-day Clifton Webb).

Also quite liked appearances of Bernard Bresslaw as implacable butler, Charles Hawtrey as a cheerful toilet attendant, Jon Pertwee as dotty Scottish scientist, Angela Douglas as girlfriend. Joan Sims is in terrifying fishwife mode.


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