Carry On Nurse
Set in Haven Hospital where a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital put together. The formidable Matron's (Jacques) debut gives the patients a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt (Williams) standing up to her. There's a major (Hyde-White) who is a constant nuisance, a bumbling nurse (Sims), a romance between Ted York and Nurse Denton (Eaton), and Bell who wants his bunyon removed straight away, so after drinking alcohol, the men decide to remove the bunyon themselves!!!
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Not too bad - MovieLover
This one in the series is not too bad. The key for me was the presence of Joan Hickson & Leslie Phillips. Joan Hickson of course would go on to be the definitive Miss Marple, the Marple equivalent of David Suchet's definitive Poirot, or Jeremy Brett's definitive Holmes.
And it was a pleasure to see the young(er) Leslie Phillips again, after just watching him as a 90 year old or so in Venus.
As he said on that DVD, he has been around for 70 years and counting as an actor, surely a pretty rare feat.One of the best of the series and great place to start - Superdave
The Carry On formula was a straightforward one: take any familiar stuffy Brit institution with its blustering authority figures and inflexible bureaucracy and reduce it to chaos with a little strategically applied low class maliciousness. The resulting mayhem and farcical runnings about inevitably turn pompous prigs into quivering jellies, to the roaring amusement of Brit audiences who lived their lives under the heel of such petty authorities and loved to watch them taken down. Carry on Nurse, with its casual snipes at the Public Health, zany ward carryings on after hours by bored neglected patients fed up with their authoritarian Matron (Hattie Jacques, in her first of more than a dozen appearances as this familiar type) and fighting back in a series of anarchic stunts, shows the Carry On formula in ready-made form and is an excellent starting point for new viewers. Shirley Eaton, a British sex symbol in the 60s thanks to her memorable appearance in Goldfinger as Connery's girlfriend who gets painted gold, has one of her earlier roles here (she was 21) as a rare sympathetic nurse with whom an injured patient falls in love. Aww. It's Jacques' picture though as the matron who first terrifies then eventually runs screaming from the oddballs of the men's ward.
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Not too bad - MovieLover
This one in the series is not too bad. The key for me was the presence of Joan Hickson & Leslie Phillips. Joan Hickson of course would go on to be the definitive Miss Marple, the Marple equivalent of David Suchet's definitive Poirot, or Jeremy Brett's definitive ...One of the best of the series and great place to start - Superdave
The Carry On formula was a straightforward one: take any familiar stuffy Brit institution with its blustering authority figures and inflexible bureaucracy and reduce it to chaos with a little strategically applied low class maliciousness. The resulting mayhem ...