hyped garbage

Good movie but grossly overrated

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The nursing profession gets a look in this second of the Carry On series of films. Carry On Nursing takes place in the public male ward of a hospital where we have one interesting section of cross Brittania Carry On style.Among the patients are boxer Kenneth Connor, professor Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey who seems to be in his own world, Terence Longden who is getting acquainted with nurse Shirley Eaton, Leslie Phillips who just wants a bunion removed and keeps getting that constantly postponed and in a private room a most demanding colonel Wilfrid Hyde-White. Hyde- White is a sportsman and has an arrangement with one of the orderlies to keep his bets being placed.They all live in mortal terror of the head matron Hattie Jacques who is the mother of Nurse Ratched. They'd all like to do something to her, but only Williams actually tells her off.The climax of this film is hysterical as Williams who believes he can master any subject reads a book on surgery and decides to do a little operating to help his mate Phillips out. The others all join in with Hawtrey in a nurses uniform keeping a lookout and Connor applying a little too much anesthesia all around. You have to see it to believe it.Carry On Nurse is a great followup film to Carry On Sergeant and insured this series would have a life.

Since I bought the boxed set, I'm compelled to watch all 43 episodes of the "Carry On" series -- or is it 430? Of the few I've watched so far, this is the most grounded in reality and the most amusing. The usual faces are present, although Wilfred Hyde-White is new, at least to me. He's an ornery and authoritarian old Major who's continually bothering the nurses with complaint and spends his time place bets on the horses with Billy, the janitor.At the end of the movie, when things are resolve and couples properly paired off, Wilfred Hyde-White gets what's coming to him. A nurse enters his room and tells him his temperature must be taken rectally, so he should bare himself and roll over prone. He does so and she inserts not a thermometer but a daffodil she's plucked from a vase.Now -- if this is funny rather than silly, it's your kind of movie. It's not too funny to me but I may be turning into the kind of old crab that Hyde-White has become.However, for lagniappe, there is Shirley Eaton, who I wish would come and take care of me instead of those ragged and louche neurotics in the Fosdick Ward. I need her to share her warmth. There is also a young Jill Ireland, looking sweet and innocent and resembling in her porcelain good looks the ballerina she was. I'd love to see her toe dance too. Knowing of her distressful end sort of dampens the enjoyment one gets from seeing her.I said it was "grounded." What I meant was that, though many of the events are absurd, they are more likely to have taken place than the events in "Carry On Doctor," which had one of the patients, Kenneth Williams maybe, on the roof top ripping the skirt from a nurse while trying to save her. I don't suppose having a daffodil in your rear end is exactly "likely" but the probability is higher than a patient's teetering on a roof top, if you see what I mean.

The second Carry On movie has a lot of familiar faces from the Carry On films and other people that would become famous. Wilfred Hyde White has always been a favorite of mine. He was great in Buck Rogers 20 years after this film. He plays one of the patients. A very young Jill Ireland plays the friend of Kenneth Williams, another patient. Kenneth Connor has the most inspired role of a fighter who was injured. Shirley Eaton from Goldfinger, returns to play one of the nurses. Joan Sims had a very good role here as a bumbling nurse. Hattie Jacques plays the Matron for the first time. The movie pretty much takes place in the hospital and deals with the lives of each patient. The flow of the movie is good, but I needed a little more humor. Charles Hawtrey has some funny scenes. He like to direct music as he plays it on his ear phones. I've read it was the top money maker in the UK for that year. I don't know if it was that good, but it's enjoyable.

I watched this movie as a kid and still get a real thrill out of it. Never fail to laugh at Charles Hawtrey falling out of bed whilst playing his imaginary piano. A great way to switch of and have a few belly laughs after a day at the office. EXCELLENT MOVIE FUN.Sadly not all the Carry On's were as good, the later productions being well below par. But most of the series were hugely enjoyable. I think they just ran out of steam at the end and became too smutty.The previous writer said this was the first of the Carry on films. Actually it may have been as far as USA audiences were concerned but the first here in the UK was Carry On Sargent 1958. Carry on Nurse followed in 1959. Altogether there were a total of 32 Carry On movies the last being made in the 1990's with an almost totally new cast the others having died or moved on to new interests.The last Carry on was Carry On Columbus which should have sunk before it reached the cinemas.