Carry On Nurse is the second Carry On film, released in 1959. The film starred Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, and Charles Hawtrey as patients and Hattie Jacques as Matron. The Carry On films were a long-running series of British popular low-budget comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers. ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kenneth Charles Williams (February 22, 1926 - April 15, 1988) was a British comic actor, star of over twenty films and notable radio comedies with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne, as well as a witty raconteur on a wide range of subjects. ... Kenneth Connor ( 1916 – 1993) was a British comedy film and TV actor, best known for the Carry On films. ... There have been two notable actors named Charles Hawtrey: Sir Charles Hawtrey (1858-1923), stage and silent film actor; Charles Hawtrey (1914-1988), who named himself after the earlier actor, and is best known for the Carry On films. ... Josephine Edwina Jacques (February 7, 1922 - October 6, 1980), better known by the stage name Hattie Jacques, was a comedy actress. ...

Plot outline:

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 with the exception of Joan Sims, who plays an attractive young nurse in this film. 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. Irene Joan Marian Sims (May 9, 1930, Laindon, Essex - June 28, 2001) was a British actress. ... Wilfrid Hyde-White (May 12, 1903 – May 6, 1991) was a British character actor. ...

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. Carry On Sergeant is the first Carry On film, released in 1959. ...

Trivia

• The film was based on a play Ring For Catty by Patrick Cargill and Jack Beale. Norman Hudis adapted this into a script.
• Carry On Nurse was the top grossing film of 1959
• Future Miss Marple Joan Hickson played a no-nonsense sister and Reggie Perrin's Doc Morrissey John Horsley (actor) appears as an anaesthetist
• This is the first occasion on which Hattie Jacques plays her familiar Carry On role of 'Matron', even though she played a similar part in the previous year's Carry On Sergeant.
• Charles Hawtrey dresses up (convincingly) as a nurse in his first appearance in the Carry on films. This is contrasted with unconvincing cross-dressing in later Carry on films.
• Bill Owen who made his second Carry On appearance here is better known for his long-running role as Compo Semini in the BBC television series Last of the Summer Wine.
• Making their Carry On debuts were actors Leslie Phillips and June Whitfield, who would play the King and Queen of Spain thirty-four years later in the last Carry On film Carry On Columbus.
• Michael Medwin (who played Ginger) was one of the stars of Television's The Army Game and was also one of the Three Live Wires. He would become a star again later in life as Don Satchley in Shoestring, and Mr Langley in Colin's Sandwich.

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External link

• Carry On Nurse at the Internet Movie Database