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    Carry On Nurse (1958)

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    The immense success of the firstΒ Carry OnΒ film came as a huge surprise to most of the people concerned. Once it became clear that their first full-fledged comedy film was a hit, Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas set about planning a further project.

    Carry On NurseΒ once again used a familiar setting, the jokes were corny, and the emphasis was on lavatorial humour.

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    The nurses of a men’s surgical ward at Haven Hospital have equal difficulty in resisting the advances of their charges and meeting the demands of their martinet Matron (Hattie Jacques).

    Individual pursuits among the patients range from nuclear physics to studying racing form.

    But these are all eventually forgotten in the collective pursuit of an unofficial operation on the bunion of new patient Leslie Phillips, anxious for a speedy discharge so that he can enjoy a gay weekend.

    This operation, performed in a general state of intoxication, is not a success since all concerned succumb to laughing gas.

    The combination of a cheery community of male bonding and lustful dreams, the man in the street battling against authority (this time the stern figure of Matron), regular chats with jolly rogue Leslie Phillips and nurses such as the gorgeous Shirley Eaton is almost enough to break your leg for and get in.

    However, it falls to Connor, Hawtrey and a maniacally anxious Williams to bombard the medical profession with camp innuendo, pathetic whining, one-upmanship and childish play.

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    TheΒ Carry OnΒ regulars again roll out the stereotypes, Hawtrey minces and giggles from his hospital bed while locked into his radio headphones for most of the film, Connor stumbles and bumbles as an unwilling and sexually uneasy boxer with a broken hand and Williams plays his big-headed bookworm with sardonic relish.

    Williams throws himself energetically into a battle of wills with frosty Hattie Jacques. Joining the already established group is Joan Sims as probationer Nurse Dawson.

    The most famous scene sees Nurse Dawson getting her own back on “The Colonel” (Wilfrid Hyde-White) by taking his temperature using a daffodil in place of a rectal thermometer.

    Carry On Nurse was a major success both in England and, amazingly, America (where it ran for two years in one Los Angeles cinema alone). The film became the highest-grossing movie in Britain in 1959, seen by 12 million people.

    Bernie Bishop
    Kenneth Connor
    Oliver Reckitt

    Kenneth Williams
    Mr Hinton

    Charles Hawtrey
    Ted York

    Terence Longdon
    Percy Hickson

    Bill Owen
    Jack Bell

    Leslie Phillips
    Matron

    Hattie Jacques
    Bert Able
    Cyril Chamberlain
    Henry Bray
    Brian Oulton
    The Colonel

    Wilfrid Hyde-White
    Sister
    Joan Hickson
    StaffΒ Nurse Dorothy Denton
    Shirley Eaton
    Student Nurse Stella Dawson

    Joan Sims
    Nurse Georgie Axwell

    Susan Stephen
    Nurse Stella Dawson
    Joan Sims
    Nurse F. James
    Susan Beaumont
    Nurse Helen Lloyd
    Ann Firbank
    Nurse Nightingale

    Rosalind Knight
    Nurse Rose Harper
    Marita Stanton
    Jill Thompson

    Jill Ireland
    Madge Hickson

    Irene Handl
    Alec Lawrence
    Ed Devereaux
    Janie Bishop

    Susan Shaw
    Ginger

    Michael Medwin
    Mick
    Harry Locke
    Meg
    June Whitfield
    Norm

    Norman Rossington

    Director
    Gerald Thomas

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