CARRY ON NURSE

The nurses of a men's surgical ward at the Haven Hospital have equal difficulty in resisting the advances of their charges and meeting the demands of their martinet Matron. Individual pursuits among the patients range from nuclear physics to studying racing form, but these are eventually forgotten in the collective pursuit of an unofficial operation on the bunion of a new patient, anxious for a speedy discharge so that he can enjoy a gay weekend. This operation, performed in a general state of intoxication, is not a success, since all concerned succumb to laughing gas.

"A somewhat stale farce, mixing slapstick, caricature and crudely anatomical humour puts life in a public hospital ward into the same cheerlessly rollicking category as the barrackroom. Predictably, the main butt is Matron, and at least one sequence implies a strongly intended criticism of the type of Matron who makes a fetish of details that have no real bearing on the patients' wellbeing whatever." ("Monthly Film Bulletin", n. 303, April 1959, p. 45)

Director: Gerald Thomas.
Screenplay: Norman Hudis.
Director of photography: Reg Wyer.
Editor: John Shirley.
Art director: Alex Vetchinsky.
Music: Bruce Montgomery.
Cast: Shirley Eaton (Dorothy Denton), Terence Longdon (Ted York), Wilfrid Hyde White (il colonnello), Kenneth Connor (Bernie Bishop), Charles Hawtrey (Hinton), Hattie Jacques (la capoinfermiera), Bill Owen (Percy Hickson), Leslie Phillips (Jack Bell), Joan Sims (Stella Dawson), Susan Stephen (Georgie Axwell), Kenneth Williams (Oliver Reckitt), Michael Medwin (Ginger), Susan Shaw (Mrs. Bishop), Susan Beaumont (Frances James), Jill lreland (Jill Thompson)
Production company: Peter Rogers per Nat Cohen e Stuart Levy.