Carry on Doctor (1967)

The popular Dr Kilmore is sacked after being discovered in a compromising position on the roof of the nurses' home. The patients are determined not to lose him, and so take on the might of ... See full summary »

Director:

Gerald Thomas

Writer:

Talbot Rothwell (screenplay)

Stars:

Frankie Howerd, Sid James, Charles Hawtrey

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Frankie Howerd	...	Francis Bigger
Sid James	...	Charlie Roper (as Sidney James)
Charles Hawtrey	...	Mr. Barron
Kenneth Williams	...	Dr. Kenneth Tinkle
Jim Dale	...	Dr. Jim Kilmore
Barbara Windsor	...	Nurse Sandra May
Joan Sims	...	Chloë Gibson
Bernard Bresslaw	...	Ken Biddle
Hattie Jacques	...	Matron
Anita Harris	...	Nurse Clarke
Peter Butterworth	...	Mr. Smith
June Jago	...	Sister Hoggett
Derek Francis	...	Sir Edmund Burke
Dandy Nichols	...	Mrs. Roper
Peter Jones	...	Chaplain

Storyline

The popular Dr Kilmore is sacked after being discovered in a compromising position on the roof of the nurses' home. The patients are determined not to lose him, and so take on the might of the "cutting" Dr Tinkle and the overpowering Matron.

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Plot Keywords:

nurse | hospital | medical | carry on | stockings | 

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Taglines:

That "Carry On" Gang is playing Doctor with the Sexiest Nurses in town!

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Genres:

Comedy

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Certificate:

PG

Details

Official Sites:

Carry On Line

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

December 1967 (UK)

Also Known As:

Carry on Doctor or Nurse Carries on Again or Death of a Daffodil or Life Is a Four-Letter Ward - A Bedpanorama of Hospital Life

Filming Locations:

Maidenhead Town Hall, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, UK

Company Credits

Production Co:

Rank Organisation, The, Adder Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor) (uncredited)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The exterior shots of the hospital are actually of Maidenhead (in Berkshire, England) Town Hall.

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Goofs

When the ambulance arrives at the hospital, it parks at an angle in relation to the door. In the next shot, it is directly in line with the entrance.

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Quotes

Dr. Tinkle: It's an enigma, Matron, an enigma.
Mr. Roper: I'm not having another one of those.

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Crazy Credits

OR Nurse Carries On Again Death Of A Daffodil Life Is A Four Letter Ward A BEDPANORAMA OF HOSPITAL LIFE

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Connections

Featured in Can We Carry On, Girls? (2001)

User Reviews

"Oh no you don't," says the patient to the nurse, who comes into his room holding daffodils, "I saw that film!"

The patient is Francis Bigger, played by Frankie Howerd, and the line is a sly reference to the funniest scene in Carry On Nurse. It's probably the cleverest line in Carry On Doctor. Like Carry On Nurse, Carry On Doctor takes place in hospital and, as the movie says, is a bedpanorama of hospital life.

The long-running Carry On movies were bawdy, low-comedy, good-natured madhouses that featured a repertory company of comics we came to recognize instantly. Here, the company is made up of Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Hattie Jacques, Sid James, Joan Sims, Charles Hawtrey, Barbara Windsor and Bernard Bresslaw, among others. They play the patients, the doctors and the nurses at Finisham Hospital. If you relish jokes about bedpans and hernias, where any possible activity below the waist will wind up as corny, corny jokes or wheezing double entendres, Finisham is the place to be. Says Dr. Kilmore (Jim Dale) to Francis Bigger, "Just as I thought. You fell on your coccyx." "I did not," says Bigger, "I fell on my back." "Your coccyx is at the base of the spine," points out Dr. Kilmore. Says Bigger, "Well I've never heard it called that before."

A Carry On hospital movie always has lots of nubile nurses assisting the longing denizens of the male ward. "Nurse, I dreamt about you last night," says a hobbled Ken Biddle (Bernard Bresslaw) to the stacked Nurse Clarke (Anita Harris). "Did you?" she asks? "No," Biddle says, "you wouldn't let me." And of course we have to deal with the Matron, a large woman more indomitable than a battleship, who knows how to keep any male quivering at the thought of one of her enemas or her ice baths. Has a matron ever been played as perfectly as Hattie Jacques? Her matrons always know what they want, and in this movie, Matron wants Dr. Kenneth Tinkle (Kenneth Williams), the hospital's chief physician. "Matron," Dr. Tinkle says, "you may not realize it but I was once a weak man!" "Doctor," says Matron, "once a week is enough for any man!"

Who cares what the plot is when we have lines like these? We even have Charles Hawtrey who, in film as well as in life, raised mincing about to an art form, playing a father-to-be suffering from false pregnancy symptoms. It's a small, unlikely and vivid bit. The whole movie is a funny, gently off-color and totally innocent experience...such as the small boy who swallowed half a crown and was taken to hospital. Two days later the boy's mum asks the doctor, "How's he doing?" "Sorry, missus," the doctor says, "there's still no change."