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A Peter Rogers Production
Directed by Gerald Thomas |
1959
Black & WhiteScreenplay: Norman Hudis (Based on an idea by Patrick Cargill & Jack Searle)
Music:
Bruce Montgomery
Certificate U
86 minutes |
| Dorothy Denton |
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Shirley
Eaton |
| Bernie Bishop |
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Kenneth
Connor |
| Hinton |
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Charles
Hawtrey |
| Matron |
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Hattie
Jacques |
| Ted York |
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Terence
Longdon |
| Percy Hickson |
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Bill Owen |
| Jack Bell |
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Leslie
Phillips |
| Stella Dawson |
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Joan Sims |
| Georgie Axwell |
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Susan
Stephen |
| Oliver Reckitt |
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Kenneth
Williams |
| The Colonel |
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Wilfred
Hyde-White |
| Frances James |
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Susan
Beaumont |
| Norm |
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Norman
Rossington |
| Jill Thompson |
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Jill Ireland |
| Sister |
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Joan Hickson |
| Helen Lloyd |
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Ann Firbank |
| Marge Hickson |
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Irene Handl |
| Jane Bishop |
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Susan Shaw |
| George |
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Michael
Medwin |
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"The Carry On which
caused a national sensation when a daffodil replaced a thermometer - you
know where!!! The Carry On team have picked up their stethoscopes and bed
pans for a strong dose of hospital humour. Hattie Jacques is the infamous
matron, doing battle with the patients in the second of the world famous
Carry On series, starring Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Leslie Phillips
and Joan Sims as the bewildered Nurse Dawson." |
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The Story
Haven Hospital is ruled with
an iron fist by Matron, and tied up with more red tape than the civil
service. The patients, who include boxer Bernie Bishop, Oliver Reckitt and
the gambling Colonel, decide they can't stand anymore punishment and hatch a
plan to run the hospital the way they want.
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Comments
The
first of the medical Carry Ons, and it's easy to see why they became so
popular. Hattie makes a wonderful matron; austere and threatening, but
ultimately good at heart, while the rest of the cast relish their
anti-establishment positions and go thoroughly over the top. The scene in
the operating theatre still remains one of the best ever Carry On moments.
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