Carry On Nurse

Carry On Nurse is a pre-cert UK VHS release by EMI on 1979 and re-released on April 1981.
==Description==
The Carry-Ons are so much a part of our lives that it seems hard to believe there was a time when we had to carry on without them. What a lot of laughter we would have missed if producer Peter Rogers, (who previously worked on religious films) hadn't got together with a director (Gerald Thomas) and a writer (Norman Hudis), both new to comedy, to make a low budget quickie about the army from a script that nobody else would buy. That one-off farce. Carry on Sergeant, proved to be one of the biggest money-.spinners of 1958. Still with no idea of starting a series that would keep audiences rolling in the aisles for years to come, Rogers, Thomas and Hudis gave the Carry-On treatment to a stage play by Patrick Cargill and Jack Beale called Ring For Catty. They cast it with what now reads like a roll call of British talent, added a daffodil that gave Hattie Jacques one of the best-remembered laugh lines in the history of British comedy, and Carry On Nurse broke all box office records, not only in Britain but also in the United States. Looking and laughing at Carry On Nurse now, we have the bonus pleasure of being wise after the event. From a cast of 44, some already famous in 1959, some still unknown, we can pick out the young faces of the Carry On team that was to be. Later Carry-Ons could be more openly saucy as censorship became more tolerant, so it is all the more amusing to recognise the dexterity with which the naughtiness is implied in a glance or an innocent sounding line of dialogue. It was no accident that Carry On Nurse broke all records in a year in which the competition included films like the first re-make of The 39 Steps, Broken Arrow, Separate Tables, The Big Country, and one of the first television spinoffs, Life in Emergency Ward 10.
==Cast==
*Kenneth Connor as Bernie Bishop
*Kenneth Williams as Oliver Reckitt
*Shirley Eaton as Staff Nurse Dorothy Denton
*Charles Hawtrey as Humphrey Hinton
*Hattie Jacques as Matron
*Terence Longdon as Ted York
*Bill Owen as Percy Hickson
*Leslie Phillips as Jack Bell
*Cyril Chamberlain as Bert Able
*Brian Oulton as Henry Bray
*Joan Sims as Student Nurse Stella Dawson
*Susan Stephen as Nurse Georgie Axwell
*Wilfrid Hyde-White as the Colonel
*Harry Locke as Mick the Orderly
*Joan Hickson as Sister
*Ann Firbank as Staff Nurse Helen Lloyd
*Susan Beaumont as Nurse Frances James
*Marita Stanton as Nurse Rose Harper
*Rosalind Knight as Student Nurse Nightingale
*Susan Shaw as Mrs Jane Bishop
*Jill Ireland as Jill Thompson
*Irene Handl as Mrs Marge Hickson
*June Whitfield as Meg
*Marianne Stone as Mrs Alice Able
*Hilda Fenemore as Mrs Rhoda Bray
*Ed Devereaux as Alec Lawrence
*Norman Rossington as Norm
*Michael Medwin as Ginger
*Martin Boddey as Perkins
*Leigh Madison as Doctor Winn
*John Van Eyssen as Mr Stephens, the surgeon
*Bernard Bresslaw (uncredited): his feet were used as stand-ins for Terence Longdon's, when the latter's character was supposedly standing in a bath.
Category:VHS
Category:UK VHS Releases
Category:1979 VHS Releases
Category:1981 VHS Releases
Category:Comedy Videos by EMI