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	*[http://www.thewhippitinn.com/carry_on_film_locations/carry_on_nurse/ ''Carry On Nurse Location Guide'' at The Whippit Inn]
	*[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/466409/index.html ''Carry on Nurse'' at BFI Screenonline]		*[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/466409/index.html ''Carry on Nurse'' at BFI Screenonline]

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{{Infobox film| name = Carry On Nurse
| image = File:CONurse.OriginalUKquadposter.jpg
| caption = Original UK quad poster
| director = [[Gerald Thomas]]
| producer = [[Peter Rogers]]
| writer = [[Norman Hudis]]
| starring = [[Shirley Eaton]] [[Kenneth Connor]] [[Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)|Charles Hawtrey]] [[Hattie Jacques]] [[Terence Longdon]] [[Bill Owen (actor)|Bill Owen]] [[Leslie Phillips]] [[Joan Sims]] [[Susan Stephen]] [[Kenneth Williams]] [[Wilfrid Hyde-White]] [[Susan Beaumont]] [[Norman Rossington]] [[Jill Ireland]] [[Ann Firbank]] [[Irene Handl]] [[Susan Shaw]] [[Michael Medwin]]
| music = [[Edmund Crispin|Bruce Montgomery]]
| cinematography = [[Reginald Wyer|Reginald Dwyer]]
| editing = John Shirley
| distributor = [[Anglo-Amalgamated]]
| released = 5 March 1959<ref name="Art & Hue">{{cite web|url=http://artandhue.com/shop/carry-on-nurse/|title=Carry On Nurse |work=Art & Hue |date=2018 |accessdate=5 March 2018}}</ref>
| runtime = 86 min.
| budget = £71,000
|gross = $2.8 million (rentals)
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
}}
'''''Carry On Nurse''''' is a 1959 [[British comedy]] film, the second in the [[Carry On (film series)|series of 31 ''Carry On'' films]] (1958–1992). Of the regular team, it featured [[Joan Sims]] (in her ''Carry On'' film debut), [[Kenneth Williams]], [[Kenneth Connor]] and [[Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)|Charles Hawtrey]], with [[Hattie Jacques]] and [[Leslie Phillips]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AIs_PX9-EkYC&q=carry+on+nurse+1959&pg=PT98|title=British Comedy Cinema|isbn=9781136508370|last1=Hunter|first1=I. Q.|last2=Porter|first2=Laraine|date=4 May 2012}}</ref> The film was written by [[Norman Hudis]] based on the play ''Ring for Catty'' by [[Patrick Cargill]] and [[Jack Beale (writer)|Jack Beale]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/466409/|title=BFI Screenonline: Carry On Nurse (1958)|work=screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> It was the top-grossing film of 1959 in the United Kingdom and, with an audience of 10.4 million, had the highest cinema viewing of any of the "Carry On" films.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/apr/17/gender.filmnews|title=Tanya Gold: Why is the Carry on series so successful?|author=Tanya Gold|work=The Guardian}}</ref> Perhaps surprisingly, it was also highly successful in the United States, where it was reported that it played at some cinemas for three years.

== Plot ==
The journalist Ted York ([[Terence Longdon]]) is rushed to Haven Hospital with appendicitis. The ambulance gets there at top speed, but only because the driver wants to know the result of a horse race. Ted is given a bed and is instantly smitten with Nurse Denton ([[Shirley Eaton]]). The other nurses are incessantly having to respond to the calls of the Colonel ([[Wilfrid Hyde-White]]), who has a private room. He is an inveterate gambler and is having his bets placed by Mick ([[Harry Locke]]), the orderly.

That evening, the boxer Bernie Bishop ([[Kenneth Connor]]) is admitted after hurting his hand at the end of a bout. The next day, the Sister ([[Joan Hickson]]) galvanises the nurses, orderly and patients for the inspection by Matron ([[Hattie Jacques]]). As usual, she is let down by Nurse Dawson ([[Joan Sims]]), a clumsy student nurse. Matron checks on the progress of the patients, and speaks to Mr Hinton ([[Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)|Charles Hawtrey]]), who is forever listening to the radio with his headphones. Mick and the Colonel bet on how long the Matron will take on her rounds.

Ted is visited by his editor and agrees to write a series of articles on his hospital experiences. He realises that Nurse Denton is in love with a doctor, but that her interest is not returned. Bernie is told that he will not be able to box for several months at least. Nurse Dawson is sent to ring the bell to signal the end of visiting hours, but she calls for the fire brigade by mistake.

The bookish intellectual Oliver Reckitt ([[Kenneth Williams]]) is visited by Jill ([[Jill Ireland]]), the sister of his friend Harry. They clearly like each other, but are too shy to admit it. Bernie urges Oliver to admit how he really feels about her. Bernie's manager Ginger ([[Michael Medwin]]) comes to visit him and tells him that he must try to be more of a showman and not simply go for broke with every match. Nurse Dawson comes in early to sterilise some rubber catheters, but is interrupted by the demanding Colonel. The catheters are put in a kidney dish to boil on the stove. Oliver is furious when the ward has to be cleared and tidied up for Matron's rounds as it upsets his schedule for no obvious purpose. When she arrives everyone begins to smell the forgotten catheters, which by now are burning on the stove. When Matron stops to speak to Oliver, he complains about the disruptive effects that her visits have on the patients. Matron is furious and has the Sister make all the beds again.

Jack Bell ([[Leslie Phillips]]) arrives to have a [[bunion]] removed and is placed on the ward. Jill comes to see Oliver and they admit that they care for each other. She gives him a bar of nougat as a gift, but later that evening it makes him sick. Mr Able complains that he can not sleep as he has been missing his wife. He is put on medication, but it makes him wildly excited and he runs amok in the hospital. Eventually Bernie subdues him with a left hook to the jaw.

Bell's operation is delayed, which upsets him greatly as he is planning a romantic weekend. He offers the men in the ward the champagne he was going to drink with his girlfriend. They all get drunk and decide to remove the bunion themselves. The night nurse is tied up and Hinton pretends to be her while the others go to the operating theatre. Jack starts to panic as Oliver prepares to operate, but soon they are all giggling as the laughing gas has been left on. The nurse arrives before any real damage is done.

The colonel plays a trick on Nurse Dawson and pins a piece of paper with a [[L-plates|large red 'L']] on her back. Ted learns that Nurse Denton is applying for a job in America and tries to dissuade her. Jack catches a cold and is told that his operation will have to be postponed yet again. Oliver is discharged and leaves with Jill. Bernie is met by his young son and they leave together. Ted is also discharged and makes a date with Nurse Denton. Nurse Dawson and Nurse Axwell decide to get even with the Colonel and replace a rectal thermometer with a daffodil. Luckily for them, upon her inspection, Matron manages to see the funny side.

==Cast==
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*[[Shirley Eaton]] as Staff Nurse Dorothy Denton
*[[Kenneth Connor]] as Bernie Bishop
*[[Kenneth Williams]] as Oliver Reckitt
*[[Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)|Charles Hawtrey]] as Humphrey Hinton
*[[Hattie Jacques]] as Matron
*[[Terence Longdon]] as Ted York
*[[Bill Owen (actor)|Bill Owen]] as Percy Hickson
*[[Leslie Phillips]] as Jack Bell
*[[Cyril Chamberlain]] as Bert Able
*[[Brian Oulton]] as Henry Bray
*[[Joan Sims]] as Student Nurse Stella Dawson
*[[Susan Stephen]] as Nurse Georgie Axwell
*[[Wilfrid Hyde-White]] as the Colonel
*[[Harry Locke]] as Mick the Orderly
*[[Joan Hickson]] as Sister
*[[Ann Firbank]] as Staff Nurse Helen Lloyd
*[[Susan Beaumont]] as Nurse Frances James
*Marita Stanton as Nurse Rose Harper
*[[Rosalind Knight]] as Student Nurse Nightingale
*[[Susan Shaw]] as Mrs Jane Bishop
*[[Jill Ireland]] as Jill Thompson
*[[Irene Handl]] as Mrs Marge Hickson
*[[June Whitfield]] as Meg
*[[Marianne Stone]] as Mrs Alice Able
*[[Hilda Fenemore]] as Mrs Rhoda Bray
*[[Ed Devereaux]] as Alec Lawrence
*[[Norman Rossington]] as Norm
*[[Michael Medwin]] as Ginger
*[[Martin Boddey]] as Perkins
*Leigh Madison as Doctor Winn
*[[John Van Eyssen]] as Mr Stephens, the surgeon
*[[Bernard Bresslaw]] (uncredited): his feet were used as stand-ins for Terence Longdon's, when the latter's character was supposedly standing in a bath.
{{div col end}}

==Production==

The film was made from 3 November to 12 December 1958 with filming at [[Pinewood Studios]] in Buckinghamshire.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pinewoodgroup.com/production/carry-nurse|title=Carry On Nurse - Pinewood filming location|website=www.pinewoodgroup.com}}</ref>

==Release==
The film premiered in London at the Carlton Cinema on 5 March 1959 before going on general release nationwide from 23 March 1959.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6a735f37|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120713130022/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6a735f37|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-13|title=Carry On Nurse (1959)|work=BFI}}</ref><ref name="Art & Hue"/>

==Reception==
The film was the most popular at the British box office in 1959<ref>"Year of Profitable British Films." Times [London, England] 1 January 1960: 13. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 11 July 2012.</ref> grossing $843,000.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=20 April 1960|page=47|title=Gag-Films Rule British Trade|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/variety218-1960-04#page/n200/mode/1up|via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref> It was the most successful ''Carry On'' film with an estimated ten million admissions.<ref name=BFI>{{cite web|title=The Ultimate Film Chart|date=28 November 2004|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|url=http://old.bfi.org.uk/features/ultimatefilm/chart/|accessdate=30 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803005823/http://old.bfi.org.uk/features/ultimatefilm/chart/|archive-date=3 August 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> It made over $2 million in [[theatrical rental]]s in the US.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=14 February 1962|page=3|title='Carry on Nurse' U.S. Rentals Run Over $2,000,000}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title=Film Chief's Daughter in Death Fall | newspaper=The Sunday Times | location=London, England | date=8 July 1962 | page=1 | issue=7260}} (218 words)</ref>

A positive review in ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' called it "the second in what should be a golden series. It does for hospital what its predecessor did for military life ... It is an unabashed assault on the patrons' funnybones. The yocks come thick and fast."<ref>"Film Reviews: Carry On Nurse". ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]''. 18 March 1959. 23.</ref> A negative review in ''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' of the UK stated: "A somewhat stale farce, mixing slapstick, caricature and crudely anatomical humour, puts life in a public hospital ward into the same cheerlessly rollicking category as the barrack-room."<ref>{{cite journal |date=April 1959 |title=Carry On Nurse |journal=[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=26 |issue=303 |page=45 }}</ref> [[Bosley Crowther]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote, "All they do is run through their routines – and hackneyed routines they are, tending mostly toward roughhouse antics and intimate hospital gags. The script by Norman Hudis is pure Roquefort, the direction of Gerald Thomas is vaudeville-timed. Yet this film has been a vast success in Britain ... don't ask us why."<ref>Crowther, Bosley (10 September 1960). "Screen: British Import". ''[[The New York Times]]''. 11.</ref> [[Richard L. Coe]] of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' wrote that "being so frankly Lowbrow, 'Carry On Nurse' also should appeal to Highbrows who, as [[Russell Lynes]]' Law states, have much in common with the Lowbrows. Middle Brows should stay away and let the rest of us wallow."<ref>Coe, Richard L. (10 June 1960). "Balmy Farce at MacArthur". ''[[The Washington Post]]''. C6.</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
*{{Cite book |last=Davidson |first=Andy |title=Carry On Confidential |publisher=Miwk |location=London |year=2012 |isbn=978-1-908630-01-8 }}
*{{Cite book |last=Sheridan |first=Simon |title=Keeping the British End Up – Four Decades of Saucy Cinema |publisher=Titan Books |location=London |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-85768-279-6 }}
*{{Cite book |last=Webber |first=Richard |title=50 Years of Carry On |publisher=Arrow |location=London |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-09-949007-4 }}
*{{Cite book |last=Hudis |first=Norman |title=No Laughing Matter |publisher=Apex |location=London |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-906358-15-0 }}
*''Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema'' by Simon Sheridan (third edition) (2007) (Reynolds & Hearn Books)
*{{Cite book |last=Ross |first=Robert |title=The Carry On Companion |publisher=Batsford |location=London |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-7134-8771-8 }}
*{{Cite book |last1=Bright|first1=Morris | last2=Ross |first2=Robert |title=Mr Carry On – The Life & Work of Peter Rogers |publisher=BBC Books |location=London |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-563-55183-6 }}
*{{Cite book |last=Rigelsford |first=Adrian |author-link = Adrian Rigelsford|title=Carry On Laughing – a celebration |publisher=Virgin |location=London |year=1996 |isbn=1-85227-554-5 }}
*{{Cite book |last=Hibbin |first=Sally & Nina |title=What a Carry On |publisher=Hamlyn |location=London |year=1988 |isbn=978-0-600-55819-4 }}
*{{Cite book |last=Eastaugh |first=Kenneth |title=The Carry On Book |publisher=David & Charles |location=London |year=1978 |isbn=978-0-7153-7403-0 }}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=0051452|title=Carry On Nurse}}
*[http://www.thewhippitinn.com/carry_on_film_locations/carry_on_nurse/ ''Carry On Nurse Location Guide'' at The Whippit Inn]
*[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/466409/index.html ''Carry on Nurse'' at BFI Screenonline]

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