  or Nurse Carries On Again or Death Of A Daffodil or Life is a Four Lettered Word |
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 1968
"Yes. And take a lot more stuffing" |
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94
min Colour Cert A
| The Stars | |
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Frankie Howerd Sidney James Kenneth Williams Charles Hawtrey Jim Dale Barbara Windsor Joan Sims Hattie Jacques Anita Harris Bernard Bresslaw Peter Butterworth June Jago Derek Francis Dandy Nichols Peter Jones Derek Guyler Gwendoline Watts Dilys Laye Peter Gilmore Harry Locke Valerie Van Ost Jean St Claire Julian Orchard Brian Wilde Pat Coombes Julian Holloway Gordon Rollings Penelope Keith Patrick Allen |
Francis
Bigger Charlie Roper Dr Tinkle Mr Barren Dr Kilmore Sandra May Chloe Gibson Matron Nurse Clarke Ken Biddle Mr Smith Sister Hogget Sir Edmund Burke Mrs Roper Chaplain Surgeon Hardcastle Mrs Barren Mavis Henry Sam Nurse Parkin Mrs Smith Fred Measurer Patient Simmonds Night Porter Plain Nurse Narrator |
| The Crew | |
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Producer Director Screenplay Music Cinematographer Editor |
Peter
Rogers Gerald Thomas Talbot Rothwell Eric Rogers Alan Hume BSc Alfred Roome |
Synopsis
After a run of successful historical Carry Ons,
they return to the hospital in an attempt to capture the essence of Carry On Nurse.
All the Carry On team are there in style, with Sid
James spending most of the time in bed due to real ill health.
After Dr Kilmore (Jim Dale) is caught in a compromising
position on the roof of the Nursing Home, he gets the sack.
After an uprising amongst the ranks of the patients, they endeavour to get the very
popular Dr Kilmore reinstated but they d
on’t count on the stubbornness of Dr Tinkle
(Kenneth Williams) and Matron (Hattie Jacques) so they resort to desperate measures using
one of the most evil torture methods ever invented on Matron – a bed bath.
Dr Tinkle, the more stubborn, actually enjoys his
ice bath so they have to resort to surgery.
A side plot of the story is Francis Bigger (Frankie Howerd), a famous faith healer, who ‘stops thinking for a while’ and hurts his back and through confusion thinks he is dying.
If Hattie Jacques is remembered for any Carry On character, it will be the indomitable Matron, which she pulls off so perfectly. Frankie Howerd fits nicely in with the Carry On team and takes up some of the slack left by Sid playing a lesser role due to his ill health. At the start of the film Frankie is the star but as the picture progresses he becomes part of the team. Carry On Doctor is the best of the medically themed films and arguably one of the best of the whole series.
