Carry On Doctor

Theater date: 1967-12-02

Blu-ray release date: N/A

Rated: N/A

6.50 (IMDB)

Genre: Comedy

Language: en

Status: Released

Length: 1h 34min

Languages:

English

Description:

Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over matter, slips off the platform in the middle of his performance and ends up in hospital under the care of Dr Tinkle. The hospital is about to enter a period of total chaos.

Top Cast >

Frankie Howerd

As Mr. Francis Bigger

Sidney James

As Mr. Charlie Roper

Charles Hawtrey

As Mr. Barron

Kenneth Williams

As Dr. Kenneth Tinkle

Jim Dale

As Dr. Jim Kilmore

Barbara Windsor

As Trainee Nurse Sandra May

Joan Sims

As Chloe Gibson

Bernard Bresslaw

As Mr. Ken Biddle

Hattie Jacques

As Lavinia, the Matron

Anita Harris

As Nurse Clarke

Peter Butterworth

As Mr. Smith

June Jago

As Sister Hoggett

Derek Francis

As Sir Edmund Burke

Dandy Nichols

As Mrs. Roper

Peter Jones

As Chaplain

Deryck Guyler

As Mr. Hardcastle

Gwendolyn Watts

As Mrs. Barron

Dilys Laye

As Mavis Winkle

Peter Gilmore

As Henry

Harry Locke

As Sam

Marianne Stone

As Mother

Jean St. Clair

As Mrs. Smith

Valerie Van Ost

As Nurse Parkin

Julian Orchard

As Fred

Brian Wilde

As Man from Cox & Carter

Lucy Griffiths

As Miss Morris

Gertan Klauber

As Wash Orderly

Julian Holloway

As Simmons

Jennifer White

As Nurse in Bath

Helen Ford

As Nurse

Gordon Rollings

As Night Porter

Patrick Allen

As Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Bart Allison

As Granddad (uncredited)

Frances Baker

As Woman in Audience (uncredited)

Simon Cain

As Tea Orderly (uncredited)

Valerie Cockx

As Patient (uncredited)

Pat Coombs

As Anxious Patient (uncredited)

Alexandra Dane

As Antenatal Instructor (uncredited)

Hugh Elton

As Visitor (uncredited)

Ernest Fennemore

As Junior Doctor (uncredited)

Eden Fox

As Outpatient (uncredited)

Stephen Garlick

As Boy (uncredited)

Jill Goldston

As Nurse (uncredited)

Pat Hagan

As Patient (uncredited)

Walter Henry

As Visitor (uncredited)

Penelope Keith

As Plain Nurse (uncredited)

Roy Lansford

As Visitor (uncredited)

Jay McGrath

As Visitor (uncredited)

Cheryl Molineaux

As Women's Ward Nurse (uncredited)

Jane Murdoch

As Nurse (uncredited)

Edith Raye

As Visitor (uncredited)

Jack Ross

As Visitor (uncredited)

Johnny Rossi

As Patient (uncredited)

Peggy Scott Sanders

As Woman in Audience (uncredited)

Robin Scott

As Patient (uncredited)

George Spence

As Patient (uncredited)

Guy Standeven

As Orderly (uncredited)

Philip Stewart

As Man in Audience (uncredited)

Laura Thurlow

As Nurse (uncredited)

James Ure

As Man in Crowd (uncredited)

Leslie Weeks

As Porter (uncredited)

Top Crew >

Gerald Thomas

Director

Talbot Rothwell

Screenplay

Peter Rogers

Producer

Eric Rogers

Original Music Composer

Alan Hume

Director of Photography

Alfred Roome

Editor

Weston Drury Jr.

Casting

Cedric Dawe

Art Direction

Yvonne Caffin

Costume Design

Stella Rivers

Hairdresser

Geoffrey Rodway

Makeup Artist

Jack Swinburne

Production Manager

Terence A. Clegg

Assistant Director

James Bawden

Camera Operator

Martin Gutteridge

Special Effects

Jack Gardner

Assistant Editor

Mike Rutter

Focus Puller

Reviews:

CinemaSerf (6/10)

A largely overpowering Frankie Howerd heads the cast for this slightly revamped version of "Carry On Nurse" (1959) as the crooked preacher who ends up in hospital after a posterior altercation leaves him a bit bruised. When he gets to the hospital - where everything happens under the watchful gaze of the portrait of "Sir Lancelot Spratt" - he alights on "Roper" (Sid James) and "Barron" (Charles Hawtrey) and encounters the ruthless matron (Hattie Jacques). She resurrects her established partnership with Kenneth Williams' doctor - this time he's called "Tinkle" and the scene is now set for some fairly standard fayre of mischief and mayhem. Jim Dale features a little too frequently for me - I found his efforts just too busy and frenetic - as the bumbling "Dr. Kilmore" who is the apple in the eye of the nurses, especially "Miss Clarke" (Anita Harris) and so the seeds of romance are sewn. It's all a bit same old, same old, this comedy - but the last twenty minutes or so give them all a chance to shine as revenge is taken and Williams, in particular, gets a little more than he bargained for. It's quickly paced and there is plenty of innuendo but here I found the script a bit more akin to the traditional films - less smut and more fun. A power struggle with anaesthetics - what's not to like?

2023-07-25