or Nurse Carries On Again or Death Of A Daffodil or Life is a Four Lettered Word
"Young chickens may be soft and tender but the older birds have more on them" "Yes.  And take a lot more stuffing"	DVD UK	UK Poster		UK Poster

 

Running Time - 94m	Colour		Certificate - A
Budget - £214,000		UK Release - December 1967
Shot - 11 September 1967 - 20 October 1967

Foreign Titles
Germany - Go Ahead Doctor	Greece - Doctors for All Jobs
Belgium - Nurses In Head	Norway - Up with the Temperature
Poland - Doctor Get to Work Again	Spain - Carry On In Hospital

 

The Stars
	Frankie Howerd Sidney James Kenneth Williams Charles Hawtrey Jim Dale Barbara Windsor Joan Sims Hattie Jacques Anita Harris Bernard Bresslaw Peter Butterworth June Jago Derek Francis Dandy Nichols Peter Jones Derek Guyler Gwendoline Watts Dilys Laye Peter Gilmore Harry Locke Valerie Van Ost Jean St Claire Julian Orchard Brian Wilde Marianne Stone Pat Coombes Julian Holloway Gordon Rollings Penelope Keith Patrick Allen	Francis Bigger Charlie Roper Dr Tinkle Mr Barren Dr Kilmore Sandra May Chloe Gibson Matron Nurse Clarke Ken Biddle Mr Smith Sister Hogget Sir Edmund Burke Mrs Roper Chaplain Surgeon Hardcastle Mrs Barren Mavis Henry Sam Nurse Parkin Mrs Smith Fred Measurer Mum Patient Simmonds Night Porter Plain Nurse Narrator

The Crew
Producer Director Screenplay Music Cinematographer Editor	Peter Rogers Gerald Thomas Talbot Rothwell Eric Rogers Alan Hume BSc Alfred Roome

 

Synopsis After a run of successful historical Carry Ons, they return to the hospital in an attempt to capture the essence of Carry On Nurse.  All the Carry On team are there in style, with Sid James spending most of the time in bed due to real ill health. After Dr Kilmore (Jim Dale) is caught in a compromising position on the roof of the Nursing Home, he gets the sack.  After an uprising amongst the ranks of the patients, they endeavour to get the very popular Dr Kilmore reinstated but they don’t count on the stubbornness of Dr Tinkle (Kenneth Williams) and Matron (Hattie Jacques) so they resort to desperate measures using one of the most evil torture methods ever invented on Matron – a bed bath.  Dr Tinkle, the more stubborn, actually enjoys his ice bath so they have to resort to surgery. A side plot of the story is Francis Bigger (Frankie Howerd), a famous faith healer, who ‘stops thinking for a while’ and hurts his back and through confusion thinks he is dying. Frankie Howerd was only in two Carry Ons, but could have become a mainstay of the core group if he'd have wanted to - a pity really. If Hattie Jacques is remembered for any Carry On character, it will be the indomitable Matron, which she pulls off so perfectly.  Frankie Howerd fits nicely in with the Carry On team and takes up some of the slack left by Sid playing a lesser role due to his ill health.  At the start of the film Frankie is the star but as the picture progresses he becomes part of the team.  Carry On Doctor is the best of the medically themed films and arguably one of the best of the whole series.

 

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