Carry On Nurse
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!
Director(s)
Gerald Thomas
Penny Daniels
Maurice Gibson
Cast & crew
Shirley Eaton
Staff Nurse Dorothy Denton
Michael Medwin
Ginger
Kenneth Connor
Bernie Bishop
Irene Handl
Marge Hickson
Joan Hickson
Sister
Marianne Stone
Alice Able
Rosalind Knight
Student Nurse Nightingale
Frank Forsyth
John Gray
Lucy Griffiths
Trolley Lady
Martin Boddey
Perkins
Leslie Phillips
Jack Bell
Reg Thomason
Porter (uncredited)
Terence Longdon
Ted York
Brian Oulton
Henry Bray
Joan Sims
Student Nurse Stella Dawson
Jack Dearlove
Outpatient (uncredited)
Penny Daniels
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Kenneth Williams
Oliver Reckitt
Patrick Durkin
Jackson
Wilfrid Hyde-White
The Colonel
Fred Griffiths
Ambulance Man
June Whitfield
Meg
Gerald Thomas
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Charles Hawtrey
Humphrey Hinton
Bernard Bresslaw
Ted York's Feet (uncredited)
Hattie Jacques
Matron
Anthony Sagar
Ambulance Man
Jeremy Connor
Jeremy Bishop (uncredited)
Lionel Pope
Doctor (uncredited)
Bill Owen
Percy "Perc" Hickson
Susan Stephen
Nurse Georgie Axwell
Cyril Chamberlain
Bert Able
Susan Beaumont
Nurse Frances James
Ann Firbank
Nurse Helen Lloyd
Norman Rossington
Norm
Harry Locke
Mick
Susan Shaw
Jane Bishop
Jill Ireland
Jill Thompson
Leigh Madison
Dr. Winn
Charles Stanley
Porter
John Van Eyssen
Mr. Stephens
Hilda Fenemore
Rhoda Bray
Graham Stewart
George Field
Ed Devereaux
Alec Lawrence
John Mathews
Tom Mayhew
Marita Constantinou
Nurse Rose Harper
David Williams
Andrew Newman
Shane Cordell
Attractive Nurse
Christine Ozanne
Cleaner
Angela Browne
Young Nurse (uncredited)
Anna Cameron
Nurse (uncredited)
Renee Cunliffe
Nurse (uncredited)
Raymond Glendenning
Racing Commentator (voice) (uncredited)
Fred Machon
Doctor (uncredited)
Stephanie Schiller
New Nurse (uncredited)
Jimmy Scott
Porter (uncredited)
John Smart
Outpatient (uncredited)
Prunella Smith
Lady (uncredited)
Winnie Wiblin
Outpatient (uncredited)
Maurice Gibson
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Reviews
CinemaSerf
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.
