Carry on Screaming - Frying tonight

[multitudinal]

he makes sure they are his last words... a man after my own heart.

[MrSunrecords1956]

Hi game wizard yes you are correct. In the good old days when this was made in the UK Fish and Chip shops had a standard sign they would put up in their window when they opened at around 5.00 pm and it said 'frying tonight'. It has now entered the lexicon through the Carry on quote and lives on but often without the full reference.

[gamewizard]

Where did the Frying Tonight line originate? I am assuming there was a chip shop advert or some such thing that was ubiquitous at the time. Even Benny Hill made reference to it once when he played the Chinese man as a travel agent. He said "We are frying tonight" instead of "We are flying tonight." using the Chinese speakers difficulty with l and r sounds for comedic effect.

[gamewizard]

The role of Sgt Bung was obviously meant for Sid James. Even the first name of the character is Sidney which the writers of many of Sid James's films and television shows used to go out of their way to give him. I like Harry H. Corbett, but still would have preferred to see Sid in this role.

[xXxAmyPalmerxXx]

@gamewizard sid was busy and couldn't do it so they got harry h corbett to play the role.personally im glad corbett was the actor for that role

[Bopxif]

The start so funny

[fatcat2939]

ooooh, I say.

[Hindenburg12886]

lollollollollollollollollollol­lollollollol!!! It's a shame really. All but Jim Dale have popped their clogs...

[BADALASS]

@Hindenburg12886 What about Fenella Fielding?

[jigalojim]

Rubber tittie! hahaha fucking classic



[dfarmbrough]

Williams's "He's come alive" has almost exactly the same camp tones as Colin Clive's "It's Alive" from 1931's Frankenstein!

[Caredroia]

I always found Kenneth williams to be a better actor than sid james, as for fenella fielding, she's still alive today, and I'll aways remember her as the voice of the p.a. system in the prisoner.

And for any of you who don't know, the Carry On...films were fun, camp, smutty series of english comedy films from the 60's and 70's. This one, Carry on Screaming was based on the hammer horrors films. There at least thirty films like; carry on spying, and carry on nurse, just to name a few!

[360whiplash]

Was this show like the Addams Family?

[benslastmile1]

The addams family was based on this.

[RealUnimportant]

@benslastmile1 The Addams Family had been around for years before this!

[gamewizard]

@benslastmile1

Umm..no. The Addams Family was created in 1938, so how do you figure they were based on a 1966 film? The Addams Family television show started in 1964, two years BEFORE this film was released.

[B1ggu5]

It was a film.

[LifeInTheUniverse]

Best Carry On line ever! This film makes me laugh every time.

[karlthebike]

@LifeInTheUniverse what about "infamy infamy , they've all got it in for me !" (kenneth williams , as Julius Caesar )

?

[AnnoyingLittleShit]

Hahahahah makes me laugh every time I see it.

[legolasgirl456]

lol i love kw

[vanstrap73]

fenella fielding was HOT!

[iabud23]

I love harry corbett es hot and this the best carry one ever!!

[capricious71]

Fenella Fielding looked damn amazing in this film. :)

[lovelyangel2244]

she looked like mortisha addams

[capricious71]

I prefer Fenella Fielding. :)

[DomWeasel]

She inspired the Mortisha character.

[OofusTwillip]

Morticia Addams was a character created by Charles Addams. She & the other members of her family made frequent appearances in Addams' cartoons in the New Yorker, but they weren't named until the 1964 TV sitcom, "The Addams Family". "Carry On Screaming" came out in 1966, so there's no way Fenella Fielding's character could have inspired Morticia. If anything, both her character & the TV Morticia may have been inspired by the 1950s late-night TV hostess, Vampira (created & played by Mala Nuri).

[gamewizard]

@OofusTwillip

Even though she may not have had a name in the comic strips, her appearance and behavior were both well established by the 1950's. If anything Vampira was based on Morticia, not the other way around.

[gamewizard]

@DomWeasel

Wrong, wrong and WRONG! The character that would become Morticia Addams was created in 1938 and the television series premiered in 1964. This film was released in 1966.

[HizbElKhabatha]

Hahaha, ah the classics. Rubber titty :P

[TornadoFawkes]

FRYING TONIGHT! Best quote of the film :L

[OnTheBuses991]

Shame they di not ask Harry H Corbett to do perhaps a few more Carry On's

[scallyhunter]

he was the real star of this film, in my opinion!

[gamewizard]

@OnTheBuses991

They had Sid James. They didn't need another lead. I am guessing Sid had prior commitments which was why they had to recast the part.

[jiraffeee]

Unforgetable! This was on telly when I was a Kid and its still a fave!

[sg1053]

they guy who posted this in the description he is wrong this aint his monster he dident make it it is a mummy that was his friend

[sg1053]

rubber titty lol

[sg1053]

rubber titty lol

[spod47]

FRYING TONIGHT!!!!!!

[andytaz1983]

lol haahaa