It's crazy - alarm in the horror castle
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| German title | It's crazy - alarm in the horror castle | ||
| Original title | Carry On… Screaming! | ||
| Country of production | Great Britain | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 1966 | ||
| length | 97 minutes | ||
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| Director | Gerald Thomas | ||
| script | Talbot Rothwell | ||
| production | Peter Rogers | ||
| music | Eric Rogers | ||
| camera | Alan Hume | ||
| cut | Rod Keys | ||
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It's crazy - Alarm im Schuselschloß is the twelfth film from the Carry-on… film series .
content
Something is very bad in Victorian England : a monster steals virgins who are then made into mannequins and sold to shops. But who is behind this monstrous crime?
Detective Sergeant Bung and Constable Slobotham have a new lead when Albert's fiancée Doris Mann is kidnapped and a large, strange finger is left behind. The trail leads to Dr. Watt and his sister Valeria. The situation gets even crazier when suddenly a second monster, created from the found finger, appears.
Remarks
- It's crazy - Alarm im Schuselschloß parodies various scary and horror films , including Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , Frankenstein , Dracula , The Secret of the Wax Museum , The Golem , Phantom of the Opera and The Wolf Man . An investigation in the style of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson . This film is particularly popular in England and is considered a classic of British film.
- The cast in this part of the series is almost identical to that of the film It's crazy - no water flows in the desert . In both, Sidney James is replaced by another star, here it is Harry H. Corbett .
- The film is the last in the series to be produced by Anglo-Amalgamated Productions , after which all films were produced by The Rank Organization .
- The car Bung drives in the film is a Brushmobile from 1904. Only six of them were made in total. Whenever the car was used in the film, the theme tune from the television series Z-Cars (1962) is played.
- Dan Dann's outhouse was at the south entrance of Pinewood Studios. At the "scary castle" by Dr. Watt is Fulmer Grange. This house is in the immediate vicinity of Pinewood Studios.
Reviews
- “Old and occasionally new gags, among other things, about how to turn young women into mannequins; the accumulation of countless clichés of the genre tires. ”(Rating: 1½ stars = moderate) - Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon“ Films on TV ” (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , pp. 409-410.
- "Slapstick with occasional approaches to horror film parody." - " Lexicon of international films " (CD-ROM edition), Systhema, Munich 1997.
literature
- Robert Ross: The Carry On Companion. B T Batsford, London 2002, ISBN 0-7134-8771-2 .
supporting documents
Web links
- Carry on - Alarm in horror castle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Carry On Screaming! at Britmovie (English)
- Carry On Screaming! at Carry On Line (English)