Carry on Screaming - Frying tonight

When Doctor Watts' long dead bodies finally comes back to life it decides it has only one thing in mind. Vengeance on its creator

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• carry
• on
• screaming
• kenneth
• connor
• Fenella
• Fielding
• harry
• corbett

[spod47]

FRYING TONIGHT!!!!!!

[LifeInTheUniverse]

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

[multitudinal]

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

[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

[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]

@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.

[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.

[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]

@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.

[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.

[BADALASS]

@Hindenburg12886 What about Fenella Fielding?