Carry On Nurse

Infobox Film | name = Carry on Nurse


caption = "Carry On Nurse" (DVD)
director = Gerald Thomas
producer = Peter Rogers
writer = Norman Hudis
starring = Kenneth Williams
Kenneth Connor
Charles Hawtrey
Shirley Eaton
Joan Sims
Hattie Jacques
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Leslie Phillips
Joan Hickson
music = Bruce Montgomery
cinematography =
editing =
distributor = Anglo-Amalgamated
released = 1959
runtime = 86 min.
country = flagicon|United Kingdom United Kingdom
language = English
budget =
preceded_by = "Carry On Sergeant"
followed_by = "Carry On Teacher"
imdb_id = 0051452

"Carry On Nurse" is the second "Carry On" film, released in 1959. Of the regular team, it featured Joan Sims (in her "Carry On" film debut), Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey and Hattie Jacques. The film was written by Norman Hudis based on the play "Ring For Catty" by Patrick Cargill and Jack Beale. The most successful of the series, it was the top grossing film of 1959 in the UK. Perhaps surprisingly, it was also highly successful in the US, where it was reported that it played at some cinemas for three years.

Plot summary

The patients in a hospital are fed up with the treatment they receive from the nurses and staff and so after getting drunk, decide to have a rebellion, perform their own operation to remove a bunion.

The film shows its theatrical roots by being almost entirely studio-bound. The principal cast almost all play character types they would later become known for. The hospital staff are portrayed as competent and conscientious but occasionally mischievous, hence the scene where nurses stick a daffodil in Wilfrid Hyde-White's bottom.

This film marked a progression from the first "Carry On" film, the previous year's "Carry On Sergeant", principally because of its hospital setting, which gave wider scope for lavatory humour and innuendo than the army training camp setting of the first film. The setting of the film in the hospital proved very successful and was returned to by the "Carry On" team in Carry On Doctor, Carry On Again Doctor and Carry On Matron.

Filming locations

Interiors: - Stage B Pinewood Studios, Bucks, England

Exteriors: Haven Hospital - (Heatherden Hall, Studio administration building and restaurant)

Filming dates

3 November 1958 - 12 December 1958

Other

"Carry On Nurse" was the first film in which Leslie Phillips spoke the line "Ding... dong!" which would become one of the phrases most associated with him. Phillips' character in the film is named Jack Bell.

External links

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* [http://www.thewhippitinn.com/carry_on_film_locations/carry_on_nurse/"Carry On Nurse Location Guide" at The Whippit Inn]