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Good concept, poorly executed.

A different way of telling a story

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Carry On Nurse was the second in the long line of Carry On comedies that started in the late 1950s, continued throughout the 1960s and ended in the late 1970s. After the surprise success of Carry On Sergeant in 1958 the team behind and in front of the film were brought back for what would be the most successful of all Carry On Films, Carry On Nurse, becoming the most successful film at the British Box Office in 1959 proving that laughter really is the best medicine with over 10.4 million tickets sold.Among the returning actors were Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Conner and Hattie Jacques, while in supporting roles were Leslie Phillips, Joan Hickson and Terence Longdon, blonde bombshell Shirley Eaton also returned for her second of three Carry On Films, while Carry On Queen Joan Sims made her Carry On Debut.The plot, although thin is substantial enough to keep the film moving at a good pace and revolves around a mens ward with troublesome patients, young nurses to send the men's temperatures up even higher, doting visitors, a betting orderly all under the watchful eye of a domineering matron. A reporter is sent to the ward with appendicitis while there he is persuaded to investigate the workings of a modern hospital, this being 1959 it is very different to the health system of today but even back then it seemed our NHS was doomed if things were to run like as they do in Haven Hospital.The reporter (Terence Longdon) not content with just writing articles also finds time to fall in love with nurse Shirley Eaton (this is prior to her turning gold for James Bond). Other patients on the ward included Mr Hinton (Charles Hawtrey) who seems to like nothing best than listening to the radio, Oliver Reckitt (Kenneth Williams) an intellectual about to have his own study in love, a colonel (Wilfrid-Hyde-White) who being posh of course has a private room to himself where he likes to place bets, eat biscuits and seems to think the nurses have nothing better to do than to dote on him hand and foot and also Bernie Bishop (Kenneth Conner) a boxer with an injured hand. When another patient Jack Bell (Leslie Phillips) arrives to have a bunion removed and his operation is postponed the wards drunken patients decide to remove the offending bump themselves. The comical ending involves the nurses getting their own back on the annoying colonel by taking his temperature in a most peculiar way. Carry On Nurse would be the first medical themed film in the series and as with other early entries in the series is more gentle than the later innuendo filled adventures of the Carry On gang and so for most of the film you would hardly recognise it as one and it is interesting to see the actors in a script that didn't require extra sauce (saucy). Charles Hawtrey is forever the scene stealer, Joan Sims makes the most of her clumsy character, Kenneth William hams it up as the intellectual while Kenneth Conner gets a tougher than you might expect role but of course plays a boxer with heart and Hattie Jacques seems born for the role of uptight matron.Carry On Nurse is a healthy comedy and I would personally give it a healthy 8/10, its age may mean it's not for everyone's tastes but for those willing to watch a film in black and white (oh just the thought of it!) it's rewards grant an enjoyable hour and half with laughs along the way.

I am quite fond of the Carry On movies, and Carry on Nurse while not the best is no exception. It is too short, the story is rather slight and plays second-fiddle to the gags and while most of them are funny and work very well the film does overdose a tad on the food, bedpan and needle gags. The film does look good enough, I can understand why people would say it's dated, but the photography is crisp and the setting is quite nice too. Carry on Nurse is efficiently directed by Gerald Thomas, the script is snappy and the gags are funny. The performances also add a lot, Hattie Jacques is superb while Joan Hickson, Joan Sims, Shirley Eaton, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams and especially Wilfred Hyde-White are a lot of fun to watch. All in all, an enjoyable film and worth seeing for the cast. 7/10 Bethany Cox

Yes it has dated terribly but it is from 1959!! It was in the days when the Carry On films were actually funny rather than a series of arch double entendres. Comic actors of the calibre of Irene Handl and Wilfrid Hyde-Whyte populated the films in those days and even the constants like Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques were at the top of their game instead of the tired parodies they became later in the series. Even the scripts were much better and they had some kind of believable plot. It was a great pity that the series became synonymous with smut in later movies. I grew very tired of the later films but will always champion the first 5 or 6 as genuinely British comedies to stand alongside any produced in the fifties or sixties.

CARRY ON NURSE was the second of 30 Films in the series which ran from 1958-1992 and has most of the regular team appearing including Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques, Leslie Philips and Joan Sims (on her Carry on Debut).As the title suggests,it's set in a Hospital ward where the 'Carry on' team is suffering from various ailments, driving the Nurses (Joan Hickson, Joan Sims, Shirley Eaton) along with the feared Matron (Hattie Jacques) to despair with their antics.Also starring, Wilfrid Hyde-White,Terrence Longdon & Bill Owen CARRY ON NURSE is very amusing without going overboard with the smutty and sexist innuendo that later productions in the Series became dependant on.CARRY ON NURSE was the most successful 'CARRY ON' of the series becoming the highest grossing Film in the UK during 1959 and it was also highly successful in the United States.***1/2 out of *****Followed by CARRY ON TEACHER (1959)