Carry on Doctor (1967)

• Year: 1967
• Released: 15 Dec 1967
• Country: United Kingdom
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061450/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/carry_on_doctor
• Metacritics:
• Available in: 720p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: PG
• Genre: Comedy
• Runtime: 94 min
• Writer: Talbot Rothwell
• Director: Gerald Thomas
• Cast: Frankie Howerd, Sidney James, Charles Hawtrey
• Keywords: nurse, ambulance, slapstick comedy, romance, crush, carry on,

	6.5/10
	69% – Critics
	69% – Audience

Carry on Doctor Storyline

Francis Bigger (Frankie Howerd) is a charlatan faith healer, convinced that “mind over matter” is more effective than medical treatment. During a lecture, he stumbles offstage and is admitted to the local hospital. In hospital, he incessantly groans and whines about being “maltreated”, demanding better treatment than the other, eccentric patients. These include bedridden layabout Charlie Roper (Sid James) who shams illnesses to stay in hospital; Ken Biddle (Bernard Bresslaw) who makes frequent trips to the ladies’ ward to flirt with his love interest, Mavis Winkle (Dilys Laye); and Mr Barron (Charles Hawtrey) who seems to be suffering sympathy pains while his wife awaits the birth of their baby.While being treated, Bigger meets two very different doctors. Clumsy yet charming Dr Kilmore (Jim Dale) is popular with the patients and loved from afar by the beautiful Nurse Clark (Anita Harris) while hospital registrar Dr Tinkle (Kenneth Williams) is universally detested, as is his battle-ax Matron (Hattie Jacques), who harbors an unrequited love for him.After Bigger’s arrival, novice nurse Sandra May (Barbara Windsor), arrives at the hospital with her intention to declare her (questionable) love for Tinkle, and enters his room, violating hospital rules that female staff are not permitted in the male quarters. Matron and Kilmore burst in on her declarations of love, which are cruelly rebuffed by Tinkle. Matron throws Nurse May out, and she leaves while tearfully announcing she’d rather die than live without Tinkle. Dr Tinkle fears for his position after this incident and contrives with Matron to get rid of Kilmore and Sandra May, lest they reveal the truth.Shortly after, Sandra May climbs on to the roof of the nurses’ home to sunbathe in her bikini top. Dr Kilmore and Nurse Clark assume she is going to throw herself off the roof in despair after Tinkle’s rejection. Kilmore rushes to save her and climbs on to the roof. He realizes she is sunbathing and prepares to leave, but Sandra assumes to her horror he is leering over her, and shrieks in fear. Her screams attract attention and soon the entire hospital staff and townspeople flock to watch. Nurse Clark attempts to help Kilmore before he falls off, but he accidentally tears her skirt off, leaving her in her underwear and stockings. Kilmore crashes through a window to safety, but lands in a bath … with a nurse in it, who assumes he is attacking her. His good reputation is destroyed among everyone except his patients.Dr Kilmore is given a hearing with the hospital governor, but Matron and Tinkle deny his revelation of Sandra May’s fight with Tinkle. As Sandra May has left the hospital, Kilmore has no proof to support him and is forced to resign. Nurse Clark reports the treachery of Tinkle and Matron to the patients and together they decide to exact revenge upon the pair for what they have done. The male patients take care of Tinkle while the females take care of Matron. The ladies manage to get Matron to confess by torturing her with a blanket bath while the men get Tinkle to confess by threatening to perform an operation on him since their previous attempt to give him an icy cold bath failed.The next day, Dr Kilmore is appointed the new hospital registrar while Tinkle is reduced to a simple doctor. Mr Barron, now fully recovered and cured, and his wife finally have their baby and Bigger and his newly wedded wife Chloe (Sims) bicker as they leave the hospital. However, on their way out, Bigger deliberately falls on the steps and injures his back again to avoid any more difficulties with his wife and is brought back to the hospital.

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A lighthearted romp from the Carry On crowd, featuring many of the players you have come to know and love in all the other films. As the title suggests, this film takes place in a hospital. As expected, the film is full of slapstick, sexual innuendos and one liners. Not perfect, but a good addition to the other Carry On films. You know what you’re getting, and the film succeeds. See it, its fun and easier to swallow than the medicine the patients have to take. I especially liked the comic timing of everyone and the silly things that happen just make the film more enjoyable. Not much to think about, but its the kind of film where you find yourself smiling often.

How on earth do you review this film?

I find it truly difficult to review Carry on Doctor, a film that has been there when I’ve needed it, it’s helped with exams, tragedies and all sorts. The humour even now is loud, brash, bawdy, saucy and just plain old fashioned funny. I find it difficult to understand how on earth someone could watch it and not find it funny, it provides uplifting fun, gag after gag, and an innocence that has long since past. The performances all around are just sensational. Frankie Howerd, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques and Sid James in particular are all magical. Nurse had previously shown that the medical format worked extremely well, as would the later hospital based films, but Doctor will always be the pick of the bunch. Still shown on TV, DVD and download sales aplenty, hard!y surprising, Carry on Doctor is a gem, a true British institution.

There’s mutiny at the hossie.

When the hugely popular Dr Kilmore (Jim Dale) is fired unjustly by devious superiors, the patients do something about it.

If only British hospitals were like this. The nurses look like Anita Harris and Barbara Windsor, the doctors are bonkers and the patients are having the time of their life. Yes this is a “Carry On” movie in all it’s jovial glory. Thinly plotted it may be, but it’s an excellent script from Talbot Rothwell that lets the true comedians in the piece showcase their worth.

Hattie Jacques as a battle-axe Matron, Kenneth Williams as snobby unscrupulous head Doctor Tinkle, Charles Hawtrey suffering a phantom pregnancy, Frankie Howerd as Francis Bigger (a man in hospital after making a living out of saying you don’t need Doctor’s! And then believing he only has a week to live) and the likes of Bernard Bresslaw and Sid James as rogue patients playing up. It’s a marvellous set up that works a treat for visual comedy. Witness Howerd’s incredulity when he is woken at 06.00, or Hawtrey’s reaction when the stocking laden minx that is Barbara Windsor arrives on the ward. Great comedy moments in a great comedy film. 7.5/10