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    Nurse on Wheels (1963)

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    Quietly competent young Joanna Jomes (Juliet Mills)  moves with her scatterbrained mother (Esma Cannon) to a country village to take up her first job as a District Nurse.

    She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients – her predecessor Nurse Merrick (Barbara Everest) was rather older – while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer called Henry (Ronald Lewis), until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.

    Full of familiar British actors who had performed in many other Anglo-Amalgamated films of the day, Nurse on Wheels is a gentle comedy with eccentric characters, a dash of slapstick and a touch of romance.

    Noel Purcell shines as the eccentric general store owner, Abel Worthy.

    The film is loosely adapted by the early Carry On films scribe Norman Hudis from the 1961 novel/memoir Nurse Is A Neighbour by Joanna Jones (a pen name of John Burke).

    Nurse On Wheels shares much with Carry On Nurse – not just the same writer in Hudis, but the same producer and director of the Carry On‘s – Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas – and there’s even something of a callback to that film’s final daffodil gag here too.

    Bearing in mind all those common links, it’s no surprise that the film’s poster takes great pains to liken Nurse On Wheels with the early Carry On feature.

    The film is also blessed with a memorable score from Carry On composer Eric Rogers.

    Some location scenes were filmed in Windsor and Little Missenden in Berkshire with interiors at Pinewood Studios.

    Joan Sims was originally cast in the title role but gained weight before production started so producer Peter Rogers recast the part with Juliet Mills. He offered Sims any other role for the same top billing and salary, and she chose the part of Deborah, the vicar’s daughter.

    Joanna Jones
    Juliet Mills
    Henry Edwards
    Ronald Lewis
    Deborah Walcott
    Joan Sims
    Abel Worthy
    Noel Purcell
    Mrs Jones
    Esma Cannon
    Vicar
    Raymond Huntley
    Miss Farthingale
    Athene Seyler
    George Judd
    Norman Rossington
    Dr Harold Golfrey
    Ronald Howard
    Mrs Wood
    Joan Hickson
    Mrs Beacon
    Renee Houston
    Mr Beacon
    George Woodbridge
    Tim Taylor
    Jim Dale
    Dr Golfrey Senior
    David Horne
    Nurse Merrick
    Barbara Everest
    Ann Taylor
    Amanda Reiss
    Mr Top
    Peter Jesson
    Miss Maitland
    Virginia Vernon
    Driving Examiner
    Deryck Guyler

    Director
    Gerald Thomas

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