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Carry On Nurse
Ist ja irre - 41 Grad Liebe
UK 1959
produced by Peter Rogers, Nat Cohen (executive), Stuart Levy (executive) for Peter Rogers Productions, Beaconsfield Productions
directed by Gerald Thomas
starring Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques, Terence Longdon, Bill Owen, Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims, Susan Stephen, Kenneth Williams, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Susan Beaumont, Ann Firbank, Joan Hickson, Cyril Chamberlain, Harry Locke, Norman Rossington, Brian Oulton, Susan Shaw, Jill Ireland, Irene Handl, Michael Medwin, Leigh Madison, John Van Eyssen, Marianne Stone, Rosalind Knight, June Whitfield, Hilda Fenemore, Frank Forsyth, Ed Devereaux, Martin Boddey, Fred Griffiths, John Mathews, Graham Stewart, Marita Stanton, Patrick Durkin, Anthony Sagar, Shane Cordell, Christine Ozanne, Lucy Griffiths, Charles Stanley, David Williams
screenplay by Norman Hudis, based on the play Ring for Catty by Patrick Cargill, Jack Beale, music by Bruce Montgomery
Carry On
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Ted York (Terence Longdon) is admitted to the men's ward of a hospital
for appendicitis, and quickly falls in love with staff nurse Denton
(Shirley Eaton), but of course it takes its time for her to love him back.
The men's ward as such is of course such a madhouse that even the strict
matron (Hattie Jacques) has problems to keep her cool: There's clumsy
nurse Dawson (Joan Sims), who seems to turn every situation into at least
two accidents, there's Bernie Bishop (Kenneth Connor), a boxer who has
hurt his hand, but it's hard to keep a boxer down, there's private patient
the Colonel (Wilfrid Hyde-White), who refuses to let the hospital stand in
the way of his gambling habits, there's radio-crazy Humphrey Hinton
(Charles Hawtrey) who simply couldn't live without his headphones, there's
intellectual Oliver Reckitt (Kenneth Williams), whose nose is stuck so
deep in his books that he doesn't even realize that the woman (Jill
Ireland) who visits him every day is deeply in love with him, and there's
self-important Jack Bell (Leslie Phillips), who's so anxious to leave
hospital again that after a night drinking he persuades his fellow
patients to do the surgery on him instead of the doctors. Of course,
everything's resolved happily in the end. The second film of
the long-running Carry On-series is basically a series of
sketches based on a hospital only vaguely held together by a narrative
thread but big on eccentric characters and caricatures to this way hold
one's interest. The outcome is a perfectly harmless comedy that doesn't
really hurt anybody and that at times could have done with a little more
spark, but then again, it's light-hearted if a tad forgettable fun. And
all that said, it also makes for a good trip down memory lane.
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