Carry On Nurse (1959)

Directed by

Gerald Thomas

Genre

comedy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 26m

Rated

16

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 64 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows the mishaps of patients and staff in a British hospital ward. A variety of comical characters create chaos while dealing with medical routines and romantic entanglements.

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What happens

Carry On Nurse is a 1959 British comedy film, the second in the 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, with Hattie Jacques and Leslie Phillips. The film was written by Norman Hudis based on the play Ring for Catty by Patrick Cargill and Jack Beale. 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. It was also highly successful in the United States, where it was reported that it played at some cinemas for three years. The film was followed by Carry On Teacher later in 1959. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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