Comedy

Carry On Nurse

- It'll fracture your funnybone !

In Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital altogether. The formidable Matron's debut gives everyone a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her. There's a colonel who's a constant nuisance, a bumbling nurse, a romance between Ted York and Nurse Denton, and Bell wants his bunion removed straight away, so after a couple of pints, the men decide to remove the bunion themselves!

Release Date : 1959-01-30

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Peter Rogers ProductionsBeaconsfield ProductionsAnglo-Amalgamated

Production Country : United Kingdom

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : The Colonel

Original Name : Wilfrid Hyde-White

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ted York

Original Name : Terence Longdon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bernie Bishop

Original Name : Kenneth Connor

Gender : Male

Character Name : Oliver Reckitt

Original Name : Kenneth Williams

Gender : Male

Character Name : Humphrey Hinton

Original Name : Charles Hawtrey

Gender : Male

Character Name : Matron

Original Name : Hattie Jacques

Gender : Female

Character Name : Staff Nurse Dorothy Denton

Original Name : Shirley Eaton

Gender : Female

Character Name : Matron

Original Name : Joan Hickson

Gender : Female

Character Name : Jill Thompson

Original Name : Jill Ireland

Gender : Female

Character Name : Percy 'Perc' Hickson

Original Name : Bill Owen

Gender : Male

Character Name : Student Nurse Stella Dawson

Original Name : Joan Sims

Gender : Female

Character Name : Jack Bell

Original Name : Leslie Phillips

Gender : Male

Character Name : Georgie Axwell

Original Name : Susan Stephen

Gender : Female

Character Name : Student Nurse Nightingale

Original Name : Rosalind Knight

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mick

Original Name : Harry Locke

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ginger

Original Name : Michael Medwin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse Frances James

Original Name : Susan Beaumont

Gender : Female

Character Name : Helen Lloyd

Original Name : Ann Firbank

Gender : Female

Character Name : Bert Able

Original Name : Cyril Chamberlain

Gender : Male

Character Name : Norm

Original Name : Norman Rossington

Gender : Male

Character Name : Henry Bray

Original Name : Brian Oulton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs Hickson

Original Name : Irene Handl

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mrs Jane Bishop

Original Name : Susan Shaw

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mrs Alice Able

Original Name : Marianne Stone

Gender : Female

Character Name : Meg

Original Name : June Whitfield

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mrs Bray

Original Name : Hilda Fenemore

Gender : Female

Character Name : Ambulanceman

Original Name : Fred Griffiths

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ambulanceman

Original Name : Anthony Sagar

Gender : Male

Character Name : Attractive Nurse

Original Name : Shane Cordell

Gender : Female

Character Name : Ted York

Original Name : Bernard Bresslaw

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Marita Constantinou

Gender : Female

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2023-07-23

Hattie Jacques rules the nurses with a rod of iron as the matron; Wilfred Hyde-White has them all dancing to his tune as the "Colonel" and the rest of patients seem to be in far more danger inside this ward in the "Haven Hospital" than they might be outside walking down the motorway! Things lurch from minor disaster to minor disaster until "Jack" (Leslie Phillips) has to have his bunion operation deferred. He has other, urgent, plans and after a few glasses of bubbly the patients decide that this surgery is a dawdle, take over a theatre in the dead of night and attempt to remove it themselves! Enough to make your eyes water! Jacques was always in her element as the authoritarian figure and there are some fun pranks afoot to get revenge for her ruthlessness from both the poorly folks and from her put-upon nursing staff too. The humour is simple, there's a touch of slapstick and even a wee bit of romance - as well as some over sterilised catheter tubes and plenty of quirky character-driven sub-plots to give each of the cast their moment in the sun. Not my favourite, it's a bit too obvious much of the time - but it's still watchable if you get into the (surgical) spirit of the thing.