Carry On Nurse
It'll fracture your funnybone !
Carry On Nurse was the 2nd film in the series, set in a hospital which was more like a hotel with doctors and nurses, than the usual place you’d expect to get well in 1959 Britain. The cast for this film is a little more varied and includes lots of hilarious moments particularly from the shivering boxer Bernie Bishop (Kenneth Connor), a gambling obsessed Colonel, (Wilfred Hyde White) and the infamous Matron, (Hattie Jacques), who pretty much plays the same fierce character in all of the other medical Carry On’s.
Compared to the other 1960’s Carry On’s this film feels pretty run of the mill by comparison. It felt as if this movie lacked originality and was just copying many of the plots and gags from the earlier and very successful ‘Doctor Film’s,’ starring Dirk Bogarde, it even replicated some of the same characters. Those films also starred Leslie Philips, who has a small part in Carry On Nurse, although it does not enhance the script in anyway his character is still pretty funny.
So overall, I have to reluctantly conclude that Carry On Nurse is not a particularly memorable film, though if you get a chance to see it on TV or you happen to come across it in a charity shop, then I’d say it’s well worth a watch.
6/10 – Calum Roberts