ThiefHott Too much of everything

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Robert J. Maxwell Since I bought the boxed set, I'm compelled to watch all 43 episodes of the "Carry On" series -- or is it 430? Of the few I've watched so far, this is the most grounded in reality and the most amusing. The usual faces are present, although Wilfred Hyde-White is new, at least to me. He's an ornery and authoritarian old Major who's continually bothering the nurses with complaint and spends his time place bets on the horses with Billy, the janitor.At the end of the movie, when things are resolve and couples properly paired off, Wilfred Hyde-White gets what's coming to him. A nurse enters his room and tells him his temperature must be taken rectally, so he should bare himself and roll over prone. He does so and she inserts not a thermometer but a daffodil she's plucked from a vase.Now -- if this is funny rather than silly, it's your kind of movie. It's not too funny to me but I may be turning into the kind of old crab that Hyde-White has become.However, for lagniappe, there is Shirley Eaton, who I wish would come and take care of me instead of those ragged and louche neurotics in the Fosdick Ward. I need her to share her warmth. There is also a young Jill Ireland, looking sweet and innocent and resembling in her porcelain good looks the ballerina she was. I'd love to see her toe dance too. Knowing of her distressful end sort of dampens the enjoyment one gets from seeing her.I said it was "grounded." What I meant was that, though many of the events are absurd, they are more likely to have taken place than the events in "Carry On Doctor," which had one of the patients, Kenneth Williams maybe, on the roof top ripping the skirt from a nurse while trying to save her. I don't suppose having a daffodil in your rear end is exactly "likely" but the probability is higher than a patient's teetering on a roof top, if you see what I mean.

crossbow0106 While not a laugh riot, this film about nurses and patients at a ward at Haven Hospital holds your interest because of the endearing characters. Kenneth Williams is his usual fun self, aided by an interest in a young (and fairly beautiful, of course) Jill Ireland. Joan Sims plays a bumbling student nurse perfectly, while Hattie Jacques is near perfect as the unamused matron. The beautiful Shirley Eaton is also in this, any film I've seen her in she has been naturally good. The jokes are not hilarious or anything like that, but the film puts a smile on your face often enough (Charles Haughtry is funny in this). There have been (much) worse Carry On Films and some better, but this is a watchable one I think you'll enjoy but not love.

TheLittleSongbird I am quite fond of the Carry On movies, and Carry on Nurse while not the best is no exception. It is too short, the story is rather slight and plays second-fiddle to the gags and while most of them are funny and work very well the film does overdose a tad on the food, bedpan and needle gags. The film does look good enough, I can understand why people would say it's dated, but the photography is crisp and the setting is quite nice too. Carry on Nurse is efficiently directed by Gerald Thomas, the script is snappy and the gags are funny. The performances also add a lot, Hattie Jacques is superb while Joan Hickson, Joan Sims, Shirley Eaton, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams and especially Wilfred Hyde-White are a lot of fun to watch. All in all, an enjoyable film and worth seeing for the cast. 7/10 Bethany Cox

Celticnationalist CARRY ON NURSE was the second of 30 Films in the series which ran from 1958-1992 and has most of the regular team appearing including Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques, Leslie Philips and Joan Sims (on her Carry on Debut).As the title suggests,it's set in a Hospital ward where the 'Carry on' team is suffering from various ailments, driving the Nurses (Joan Hickson, Joan Sims, Shirley Eaton) along with the feared Matron (Hattie Jacques) to despair with their antics.Also starring, Wilfrid Hyde-White,Terrence Longdon & Bill Owen CARRY ON NURSE is very amusing without going overboard with the smutty and sexist innuendo that later productions in the Series became dependant on.CARRY ON NURSE was the most successful 'CARRY ON' of the series becoming the highest grossing Film in the UK during 1959 and it was also highly successful in the United States.***1/2 out of *****Followed by CARRY ON TEACHER (1959)