Carry On Nurse (1959)

Pretty Good

One of my all time favorites.

Memorable, crazy movie

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

This second film in the series finds the Carry On team on the men's ward of Haven Hospital but unlike the first film, 'Carry on Sergeant', there is no plot to speak of, just a series of amusing events involving the patients and the nurses looking after them. The patients are a varied bunch and include a nuclear physicist, a boxer with a broken hand, a man with a broken leg and another with a bunion. During the film they have amusing interactions with each other and the nurses, however it isn't until close to the end that they all interact in the most amusing scene in the film… after a couple of bottles of late night champagne the physicist claims that he is quite capable of operating on the man's bunion but after a slight accident with the nitrous oxide none of them are capable of doing anything! It isn't just the patients who are providing laughs, accident prone Student Nurse Stella Dawson provides plenty too; most notably when she gets her revenge on an awkward patient in a way that I'm surprised the 1959 censors allowed!This film was fun to watch although it didn't contain as many laugh out loud moments as some films in the series it did make me chuckle a few times. The cast did a decent job; the regulars are clearly already comfortable in their roles. One or two of the jokes are a bit 'naughty' but are never as crude as those to be found in the later instalments of the series meaning it is probably okay for younger viewers to watch although some parents might disagree. Watching this it is clear that health care has changed a lot in the last fifty years; no longer does Matron rule the ward with a rod of iron and patients certainly don't smoke in the hospital… these days they stand outside the front door to do it!

Lively little British comedy that follows the antics of a surgical ward in a big London hospital.To me, this raucous comedy was cutting edge in 1960. Our small town theaters did not show such mildly scatological fare (the unmistakable innuendos), nor as far as I know was Hollywood producing anything similar. So I'm not surprised the film was a European import that only received a special showing in our very conservative town. Seeing the comedy again after so many years and the changes in popular culture, the novelty of course has worn off, but the various antics are still pretty funny. What strikes me most, however, is the pacing. Note how things are kept constantly in motion, a wise move since there's basically only one set, which can be pretty confining.I don't know how accurate the portrayal is, but the nurses appear more regimented than a platoon of Royal Marines. There's a definite pecking order, and I love the may the Matron (Jacques) strides through the ward like a bull elephant, while staff scatters like startled antelope.Anyway, were the movie produced now in the US, I suspect a TV series would result, given all the colorful characters that could rotate in and out. All in all, I'm not surprised the Carry On franchise proved as durable as it did, thanks in part to this lively early entry.

CARRY ON NURSE was the second of 30 Films in the series which ran from 1958-1992 and has most of the regular team appearing including Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques, Leslie Philips and Joan Sims (on her Carry on Debut).As the title suggests,it's set in a Hospital ward where the 'Carry on' team is suffering from various ailments, driving the Nurses (Joan Hickson, Joan Sims, Shirley Eaton) along with the feared Matron (Hattie Jacques) to despair with their antics.Also starring, Wilfrid Hyde-White,Terrence Longdon & Bill Owen CARRY ON NURSE is very amusing without going overboard with the smutty and sexist innuendo that later productions in the Series became dependant on.CARRY ON NURSE was the most successful 'CARRY ON' of the series becoming the highest grossing Film in the UK during 1959 and it was also highly successful in the United States.***1/2 out of *****Followed by CARRY ON TEACHER (1959)

Carry on nurse is he second carry on film. Like most of the early films in the series it was filmed in black and white. It is a good carry on. It was the most successful film in the uk in 1959. It is quite memorable and helped establish a successful film series which is well known. As it is the second film, the cast are still a new group together. At this stage, Sid James hadn't joined the cast yet. There are many memorable moments just like the first film, carry on sergeant which make the film memorable and a success. It is the first film of joan sims, the bunion on the foot, the colonel and the daffodil, hattie jacques as the chief nurse and the attempt by patients to perform an operation themselves. There are many jokes and strong scenes which make good comedy.