Carry On Matron

or
From Here To Maternity
or
Familiarity Breed
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Womb at the Top
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The Pregger's Opera

"But how do we know we're physically suited to each other? I mean, It's like a DIY shop with wallpaper, isn't it?"

"Yes. You don't just go into a shop and buy enough for the whole room. You tear yourself off a little strip first."

"That may be so, but you're not going to stick me up against a wall"

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The Stars
	Sidney James Kenneth Williams Charles Hawtrey Hattie Jacques Joan Sims Bernard Bresslaw Terry Scott Barbara Windsor Kenneth Connor Kenneth Cope Bill Maynard Patsy Rowlands Jacki Piper Derek Francis Amelia Baynton Valerie Leon Brian Osborne Gwendoline Watts Valerie Shure Margaret Nolan Wendy Richard Bill Kenwright Jack Douglas Madeline Smith Marianne Stone Juliet Harmer	Sid Carter Sir Bernard Cutting Dr Francis Good Matron Mrs Tidy Ernie Dr Prod Nurse Ball Mr Tidy Cyril Carter Freddie Evelyn Banks Sister Arthur Mrs Jenkins Jane Darling Ambulance Driver Francis Kemp Miss Smethurst Mrs Tucker Miss Willing Reporter Expectant Father Mrs Pullitt Mrs Pudsover Mrs Bentley

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

Synopsis

Sir Bernard Cutting (Kenneth Williams) is the head of Finnisham Maternity Hospital but unfortunately, he is a hypochondriac and his symptoms lead him to believe he is turning into a woman. Dr Good (Charles Hawtrey), the hospital psychiatrist tells him that he needs to prove himself as a man so he starts to woo Matron (Hattie Jacques).

Sid Carter (Sid James), a local thief, has his eye on a storeroom full of contraceptive pills that he wishes to steal and sell abroad, but to find them he has to get someone on the inside, so he talks his son into dressing up as a nurse. Cyril Carter (Kenneth Cope), or Cyrille as he changes it into, is soon rumbled by his roommate, Nurse Ball (Barbara Windsor) with whom he falls in love.

Again Kenneth and Hattie when they are put in to these types of roles are marvellous. Some of the one-liners they come out with are classics such as: ‘I wish to be wooed.’ ‘Ooh, you can be as wude as you like with me’. Kenneth Cope makes a good transition from Convenience to the likeable Cyril, who spends most of the film in drag, but would never be considered in the vein of Kenneth Williams or Sid James.

The end section where Sid is dressed as Dr Zhivago and Bernard Bresslaw is in drag as a pregnant woman worrying about the ‘child’ – which is really stuffing, is pure comic tour-de-force. This is, with the exception of Dick, the last of the true Carry Ons.

Running Time - 87m	Colour		Certificate - A
Budget - Ł225,000		UK Release - May 1972
Shot - 11 October 1971 - 26 November 1971

Foreign Titles
Poland - Mum, The Works	Germany - A Crazy Nurse
South America - Be Careful With the Pill