Carry on Nurse (1959)

User Rating:

6.0/10   

Director:

Gerald Thomas

Writers:

Norman Hudis (original screenplay) and
Jack Beale (idea)
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Release Date:

21 July 1959 (Denmark)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

From the same stars and team that gave you the sensational comedy success "Carry on Sergeant"

Plot:

Set in Haven Hospital where a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital put together...

Plot Keywords:

Nurse | Orderly | Colonel | Sequel | Medical

Cast

Kenneth Connor	...	Bernie Bishop
Shirley Eaton	...	Staff Nurse Dorothy Denton
Charles Hawtrey	...	Humphrey Hinton
Hattie Jacques	...	Matron
Terence Longdon	...	Ted York
Bill Owen	...	Percy 'Perc' Hickson
Leslie Phillips	...	Jack Bell
Joan Sims	...	Student Nurse Stella Dawson
Susan Stephen	...	Nurse Georgie Axwell
Kenneth Williams	...	Oliver Reckitt
Wilfrid Hyde-White	...	The Colonel (as Wilfrid Hyde White)
Susan Beaumont	...	Nurse Frances James
Ann Firbank	...	Helen Lloyd
Joan Hickson	...	Sister
Cyril Chamberlain	...	Bert Able
Harry Locke	...	Mick the Orderly
Norman Rossington	...	Norm
Brian Oulton	...	Henry Bray
Susan Shaw	...	Mrs. Jane Bishop
Jill Ireland	...	Jill Thompson
Irene Handl	...	Mrs. Madge Hickson
Michael Medwin	...	Ginger
Leigh Madison	...	Doctor Winn
John Van Eyssen	...	Surgeon Stephens
Marianne Stone	...	Mrs. Alice Able
Rosalind Knight	...	Student Nurse Nightingale
June Whitfield	...	Meg
Hilda Fenemore	...	Mrs. Rhoda Bray
Frank Forsyth	...	John Gray
Ed Devereaux	...	Alec Lawrence (as Ed. Devereaux)
Martin Boddey	...	Perkins
Fred Griffiths	...	Second Ambulance Man
John Mathews	...	Tom Mayhew
Graham Stewart	...	George Field
Marita Stanton	...	Rose Harper
Patrick Durkin	...	Jackson
Anthony Sagar	...	First Ambulance Man
Shane Cordell	...	Attractive Nurse
Christine Ozanne	...	Cleaner
Lucy Griffiths	...	Trolley Lady
David Williams	...	Andrew Newman
Charles Stanley	...	Porter (scenes deleted)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jeremy Connor	...	Jeremy Bishop (uncredited)
Raymond Glendenning	...	Racing Commentator (voice) (uncredited)
Stephanie Schiller	...	New Nurse (uncredited)

Directed by
Gerald Thomas

Writing credits
Patrick Cargill		(play "Ring for Catty") uncredited and
Jack Beale		(play "Ring for Catty") uncredited
Norman Hudis		(original screenplay)
Jack Beale		idea
Patrick Cargill		idea

Produced by
Peter Rogers	....	producer
Nat Cohen	....	executive producer (uncredited)
Stuart Levy	....	executive producer (uncredited)

Original Music by
Bruce Montgomery

Cinematography by
Reginald H. Wyer		(director of photography) (as Reginald Wyer)

Film Editing by
John Shirley

Casting by
Betty White

Art Direction by
Alex Vetchinsky

Makeup Department
George Blackler	....	makeup artist
Pearl Orton	....	hairdressing

Production Management
Frank Bevis	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Stanley Hosgood	....	assistant director
Maurice Gibson	....	second assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department
Arthur Taksen	....	set dresser
Bert Davey	....	chief draughtsman (uncredited)

Sound Department
Roger Cherrill	....	sound editor
Bill Daniels	....	sound recordist
Robert T. MacPhee	....	sound recordist
Roy Charman	....	assistant boom operator (uncredited)
Harry Fairbairn	....	sound assistant (uncredited)
Simon Kaye	....	sound camera operator (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Alan Hume	....	camera operator
Steve Claydon	....	focus puller (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Joan Ellacott	....	dress designer

Music Department
Bruce Montgomery	....	musical director

Other crew
Nat Cohen	....	presenter
Penny Daniels	....	continuity
Stuart Levy	....	presenter
Lorely Farley	....	production secretary (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Beaconsfield Productions

Distributors

• Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors (1959) (UK) (theatrical)
• Governor Films (1960) (USA) (theatrical)
• Anchor Bay Entertainment (2002) (USA) (DVD)
• Video Yesteryear (video)
• Warner Home Video (1988) (UK) (VHS)
• Warner Home Video (2001) (UK) (DVD)

Other Companies

• B&D Film  logo
• Courtaulds  nurses' uniforms

Runtime:

86 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Iceland:L | Australia:G | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | UK:PG (video rating) (1988) | UK:U (original rating) | USA:Not Rated

Filming Locations:

Heatherden Hall, Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Beaconsfield Productions

Trivia:

Joan Sims was second choice to play Nurse Dawson.

Goofs:

Continuity: When the nurse who was left tied up in a bed is set free by a colleague we see that her hands were tied but not her feet: she would have been able to get up and walk at any time.

Quotes:

[Nurse Dawson approaches Ted with a large tablet]
Ted York, Newspaper Reporter.: You have given one of these before?
Nurse Stella Dawson: Oh, good gracious, hundreds.
[Hands him a glass of water]
Nurse Stella Dawson: There you are, get it down now.
Nurse Dorothy Denton: [Passing:] Other end, Nurse.
[Nurse Dawson looks ashamed]
Ted York, Newspaper Reporter.: Never mind. With a face like mine, it's a mistake anyone might make.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Office: The Quiz (#1.3)" (2001)

The first of the Carry On medical capers

The first of the medical outings, Carry On Nurse is one of the earlier Carry On films and one of the best to start with. Most of the action revolves around the staff and patients on the men's surgical ward at Haven Hospital.

The patients and staff are played by actors who were to become stalwarts of the Carry On series and settle into their stereotypes quite well. Kenneth Connor is a boxer with a broken wrist. Kenneth Williams is his usual snooty intellectual, and is paired off with a glamour girl!, while Charles Hawtrey spends most of the time in bed listening to his wireless.

Matron Hattie Jacques' strict supervision of nurses Shirley Eaton and a young Joan Sims prompts the patients to give her a taste of her own medicine, in this case an hilarious attempt at removing Leslie Phillips bunion! There is also an hilarious gag involving Wilfrid Hyde White and *that* daffodil!

A must see!