This was only the second film to be released in the series of sexy British comedies, it was also the first of four to be set in a hospital, followed by Doctor, Again Doctor and Matron. Basically the setting is Haven Hospital in the men's ward where small havocs are caused very often. New to the ward is boxer Bernie Bishop (Kenneth Connor) with a broken hand, and fellow patients include Humphrey Hinton (Charles Hawtrey) who loves to listen to the radio, The Colonel (Wilfrid Hyde-White) who often bets on horse races, Oliver Reckitt (Kenneth Williams) who is an intellectual and doesn't seem to have much fun, Ted York (Terence Longdon) the journalist who has a thing for Staff Nurse Dorothy Denton (Goldfinger's Shirley Eaton), and Jack Bell (Leslie Phillips) the posh gentlemen with his (iconic for Phillips) catchphrase "Ding Dong". The film is mainly a series of small events of havoc where the men want to have some fun, talk a few innuendos, carry on whatever routines they have made for themselves, and try to avoid trouble from the Matron (Hattie Jacques), oh, and we see Student Nurse Stella Dawson (Joan Sims) and other staff working a little. Also starring Bill Owen as Percy 'Perc' Hickson and Susan Stephen as Nurse Georgie Axwell. Obviously this is very small location and doesn't get out and about like the later films, it sticks more to small fry jokes involving bedpans, food, mime, a great catchphrase, and an attempted operation, but it has its tiny giggles, so it's not such a bad comedy. Carry On films were number 39 on The 100 Greatest Pop Culture Icons. Worth watching!
Review of Carry on Nurse
