Carry On Doctor (1972)

Perfect cast and a good story

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

The gang are all here and they are having a ball!!. Kenneth, Sid , Charles , Hattie, Peter ,Joan Jim, Babs Frankie,Bernie. The Hospital is the Hospital of mayhem as the carry on gang take over!!. Anita Harris makes her second carry on film as Nurse Clark. The story is as follows: Francis Bigger (Frankie Howerd) is giving a lecture in a town hall about not needing Doctors Nurses and medicine. He says " If nothing can happen nothing will". The moment he finishes saying this he falls off the back of the stage and bruises his back!!!. He is then taken into Hospital where the Matron rips his underpants right off!!!. When she does she discovers they have nude women on them!!!. This scene is a classic it still cracks my ribs every time i watch it!!!. Also in the Hospital is Charlie Roper ( Sid James) who there is nothing wrong with!!!. There is Mr Barren (Charles Hawtrey) who is convinced he is pregnant!!!!. There is Ken Biddle ( Bernard Bresslaw) who needs the toilet a lot!!. But he really has his eyes on Mavis Winkle ( Dylis Laye).Also on the ward is Mr Smith ( Peter Butterworth) who has a big lump on his body.A hot new nurse arrives Nurse Sandra May ( Barbara Windsor) who has a love for Kenneth Williams. She bursts into his room demanding he Declere his love for her. Matron catches them and is fuming. Dr Kilmore is a witness. Later on Babs is sunbathing on the roof of the nurses home, Dr Kilmore and Nurse Clark think she is going to jump off the roof. So they run across the road to the nurses home where a dramatic rooftop sequence takes place. Dr Kilmore is disgraced . Nurse May leaves after what has happened. Matron and Tinkle lie about what really happened so Kilmore gets the sack. The patients are outraged and swear revenge at Tinkle and Matron. The patients get their own back in true carry on fashion. They tie up Sister and invade Doctor Tinkle and Matron in the middle of a romantic evening with champagne in his room. They give Tinkle an ice bath and operate on him forcing him to sign, meanwhile Matron has a blanket bath!!!!. In the end everything turns out fine Dr Kilmore returns and has a promotion to senior Doctor while Kenneth is an A&E doctor. Frankie Howerd is discharged at the end of the film he leaves the hospital falls down the steps and ends up straight back in!!. Classic 100/100

This is the first of Frankie Howard's two appearances with the Carry On team (the second is Carry On up the Jungle) and this is without doubt one of the greatest laugh-o-matic films the Carry on crew have ever produced. This film tells of a handsome hospital doctor (Jim Dale) unjustly fired by a villainous registrar (Kenneth Williams) and his matron (Hattie Jaques, obviously) for unwittingly appearing on top of the Nurses home, Things heat up when the paitents take matters into their own hands! It is testament to its enduring popularity that it was soon followed with a sequel. Who could forget Bernard Bresslaw in that nurses outfit? Or Sid James' almost successful attempts to break all the hospital rules? And Frankie Howard's pain in the back? This is quintessential carry on and one of the best.

Not up to the level of their best stuff, but far from the level of the Carry On team's weakest, this entry is as usual silly but entertaining. Some of the jokes are plainly obvious, but there are a few laugh-out-loud moments to make up for the tamer and lamer gags. The acting is good, but hardly the best that the team has displayed. It is however excess length that is the prime weakness here. The final fifteen minutes or so are very weak, and could have been handled better. Otherwise, this is simple, amusing fun, although 'Carry On Again Doctor' comes more highly recommend than this, and despite the title, the two films share as much in common as any of the Carry On films do.

Did you?No, you wouldn't let me.What a line. This film is cheesy as they come, but it's all part of a British institution - the Carry On films. If you're not a Brit or you haven't seen any of these films then allow me to elaborate for a moment. Made between the late 50s and late 70s (except for one execrable exception from 1992), 28 films with the title "Carry On..." celebrated the best of UK 'seaside humour'. In other words, tit jokes. There's something inherently satisfying about watching this film in particular, one of my desert island films. Maybe it's the ridiculous puns, or the silly prat-falls, or the comfort of watching familiar faces. Who knows? But it is pretty funny. *Spoilers*Dr. Kilmore ("Did you hear about the pregnant bedbug? She had a baby in the spring") is a handsome doctor who the nurses fancy and the blokes think is pretty cool. Dr Tinkle ("Cold baths every hour, matron.") hates him, as does the infatuated-with-Dr-Tinkle Matron ("This hospital is not big enough for both of us, Doctor." "Oh, I don't know, you're not that big, Matron."). Nurse May (Barbara Windsor) fancies Dr Tinkle. And it all sort of moves on from there, apart from Francis Bigger, a 'positive thinker' with a bad back, and his deaf partner Chloe ("She's a bit mutt, doctor."). There's lots of puerile wordplay ("Ooh, what a lovely pear." "You took the words right out of my mouth!"), half-naked women on rooftops, falling over, exaggerated facial expressions and hammy acting. In other words, business as usual for the Carry Ons.I love this film.