Carry on Again Doctor (1969)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Gerald Thomas

Writer:

Talbot Rothwell (screenplay)

Release Date:

28 July 1972 (Denmark)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

When a burlesque queen visits the hospital for a check-up, everyone wants to get into the act

Plot:

Dr Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff...

Plot Keywords:

Medical | Carry On | Sequel | Independent Film | Actor Shares First Name With Character

Cast

Sid James	...	Gladstone Screwer (as Sidney James)
Kenneth Williams	...	Frederick Carver
Charles Hawtrey	...	Doctor Ernest Stoppidge
Jim Dale	...	Doctor Jimmy Nookey
Joan Sims	...	Ellen Moore
Barbara Windsor	...	Goldie Locks
Hattie Jacques	...	Matron
Patsy Rowlands	...	Miss Fosdick
Peter Butterworth	...	Shuffling Patient
Elizabeth Knight	...	Nurse Willing
Alexandra Dane	...	Stout Woman
Peter Gilmore	...	Henry
Pat Coombs	...	New Matron
Patricia Hayes	...	Mrs. Beasley
William Mervyn	...	Lord Paragon

Also Known As:

Carry on Again Doctor or Where There's a Pill There's a Way or The Bowels Are Ringing or If You Say It's Your Thermometer I'll Have to Believe You, But It's a Funny Place to Put It. (UK) (long title)

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) | Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

12 Park Street, Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK

Company:

Rank Organisation, The

Trivia:

Patricia Franklin was going to play Night Nurse, but had to bow out, and was replaced by Jenny Counsell

Goofs:

Continuity: Dr Nookey sees patients in his own Out-Patient consulting room. The same room reappears later as the Casualty Department, with the desks and chairs removed.

Quotes:

Dr. Jimmy Nookey: Hmm. That's a good skeleton. Did the last doctor leave it here?
Gladstone Screwer: That is the last doctor.

Movie Connections:

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

CARRY ON AGAIN DOCTOR (Gerald Thomas, 1969) **1/2

Being the third outing in the series to be set against a medical backdrop, I was fully expecting this to be a tired rehash of old gags and ideas; however, I found it quite an agreeable latter-day entry – if still essentially second-tier material.

The cast sees Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques and Jim Dale in more or less similar roles as its predecessor CARRY ON DOCTOR (1967); on the other hand, Sid James, Joan Sims, Charles Hawtrey and Barbara Windsor play different characters. Also, the mid-section of the film reverts to a tropical island setting (to which Dale has been assigned as a punishment, and where wily orderly James is stationed – though, even in such remote surroundings, he manages to keep up-to-date with English soccer results via coded drum-playing from the natives!).

Some of the best gags involve Dale's accident-prone antics at the hospital early on (including his examination of scantily-clad starlet Windsor) and the latter stages set in Dale's private clinic (James has devised a concoction which turns out to be an effective slimming treatment – subsequently exploited by Dale under the patronage of wealthy Sims), which also sees Hawtrey once again in drag (he's a doctor who's jealous of Dale and has infiltrated the clinic on a mission for Dale's ex-superior/now-rival Williams). Series regular Peter Butterworth only has one wacky scene; other bits highlight Wilfrid Brambell (uncredited as an eccentric patient), lovely Valerie Leon (as Dale's sultry secretary) and future Mrs. Michael Caine Shakira Baksh (as a native-girl who successfully undertakes James' miraculous cure).