  or Where's There a Pill There's a Way or The Bowels are Ringing or If You say It's Your Thermometer I'll Have to Believe You, But It's a Funny Place to Put It |
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 1969
"That is the last Doctor!" |
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 "Poking their diag'noses into other peoples business - in their latest laughter operation" |
89
min Colour Cert A
| The Stars | |
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Kenneth Williams Jim Dale Sidney James Joan Sims Charles Hawtrey Barbara Windsor Hattie Jacques Patsy Rowlands Wilfred Bramble Peter Butterworth Elizabeth Knight Peter Gilmore Pat Coombes Patricia Hayes William Mervyn Alexandria Dane Harry Locke Valerie Leon Lucy Griffiths Gwendoline Watts Valerie Van Ost Billy Cornelius Shakira Baksh Frank Forsyth Bob Todd |
Dr
Frederick Carver Dr James Nookey Gladstone Screwer Ellen Moore Dr Ernest Stoppage Goldie Locks Matron Miss Fosdick Mr Pullen Male Patient Nurse Willing Henry Miss Armitage Mrs Beasley Lord Paragon Stout Woman Porter Deidre Lady With H-Phones Out-Patients Sister Night Sister Patient in Plaster Scrubba Mr Bean Patient |
| The Crew | |
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Producer Director Screenplay Music Cinematographer Editor |
Peter
Rogers Gerald Thomas Talbot Rothwell Eric Rogers Ernest Steward BSc Alfred Roome |
Synopsis
After disgracing himself at a Hospital
party, Dr James Nookey (Jim Dale) gets conned into taking the post at a
Medical Mission in the rain-swamped, mosquito-ridden Beatific Islands. The Mission orderly, Gladstone Screwer (Sid James) has a
magic potion for instant weight loss, w
hich
Dr Nookey takes back and opens a very successful clinic.
Whilst this is going on, his ex-boss, Dr Carver (Kenneth Williams)
gets
shipwrecked on the island and succumbs to chicken-pox.
When Dr Carver returns and finds out what a success Dr Nookey’s clinic has become, he hatches a plan to find the secret of the weight loss clinic and sends his colleague Dr Stoppage (Charles Hawtrey) disguised as a woman to undergo the treatment.
By no means the best of the medical Carry Ons it still, nevertheless, has some worthwhile moments, including Williams and Hawtrey’s double act, although Hawtrey out of his usual Carry On persona is the villain of the piece. Sid James isn’t seen until half way through the film and doesn’t seem to have as meaty as role as usual and the end seems rushed in getting to the happy ending scene.
