Carry on nurse is he second carry on film. Like most of the early films in the series it was filmed in black and white. It is a good carry on. It was the most successful film in the uk in 1959. It is quite memorable and helped establish a successful film series which is well known. As it is the second film, the cast are still a new group together. At this stage, Sid James hadn't joined the cast yet. There are many memorable moments just like the first film, carry on sergeant which make the film memorable and a success. It is the first film of joan sims, the bunion on the foot, the colonel and the daffodil, hattie jacques as the chief nurse and the attempt by patients to perform an operation themselves. There are many jokes and strong scenes which make good comedy.

The Matron of Haven Hospital is a fearsome lady, she runs a tight ship and the staff and patients are constantly walking on egg shells. After the admittance of a couple of lively characters, the patients decide enough is enough and start to take things into their own hands.Following on from Carry On Sergeant, this was the second entry into the Carry On franchise, tho some of the humour is borderline bawdy, it's still a long way short of what would become the franchise's trademarks.A number of character peccadilloes keep the film frothy and entertaining, there is budding romances, a hapless nurse, annoying private patient and a whole ream of havoc inducing goings-on. It's well adapted by Norman Hudis, from the play "Ring For Catty", which was written by Patrick Cargill and Jack Searle, and it's directed safely by Gerald Thomas. Who along with his producer, Peter Rogers, would bag themselves in the process a nice on going contract from Pinewood Studios.The film was a big box office success in Britain and even made a splash in America. It's not hard to see why, consistently funny and charmingly simple, Carry On Nurse is as safe as a Victorian built terrace house. Or should that be Hospital? 7.5/10

I have long found it rather odd that British people find hospitals so hilariously funny. They are preoccupied with bed pans, injections and telling patients to get back into bed. The patients rarely look very sick and having once experienced the health scheme in England I wonder if the Carry on team need a reality check. Still at least England has a national health scheme as all civilised countries should. Charles Hawtrey is a delight. He is as always wonderfully supported by Kenneth Williams. Hatti Jaques is as always delightful and there are plenty of fine British actors such as Joan Hickson, Wifred Hyde White, Irene Handl, Joan Sims and the gang to keep the show going. Its a very warm little movie but not really very funny. It has one of the best endings which other users have discussed. The British have long found bottoms extremely funny. I must say I found the film much funnier as a kid and when I watched it last night I was a bit surprised that the film was not all that funny. The annoying Kenneth Connor is so irritating I am finding him the weak link in all these films. I might have found him funnier when I was young. Its rather fun watch patients smoke in hospital, flirt with nurses.. ah sweet nostalgia. Its in glorious black and white. Not as good as Carry on Regardless which followed. Kids will love the film.

The second in the popular series is one of the best, but also the first in a quartet of medical lampoons from this stable – the others being CARRY ON DOCTOR (1968), CARRY ON AGAIN, DOCTOR (1969) and CARRY ON MATRON (1972); I’ve watched the latter but not the other two, though I should be able to get to them fairly soon... Anyway, coming very early in the series, CARRY ON NURSE – which manages to make the most of its single setting – isn’t as crude or as slapdash as a good many of the later entries regrettably proved to be: in fact, it’s pretty much in the vein of classic British comedy of the time (such as the satirical films by the Boultings). The cast brings together several practiced performers in the field: Kenneth Connor (his “Cor, Blimey” attitude as a boxer with a broken hand is somewhat reminiscent of Norman Wisdom), Kenneth Williams (having a less central role than would be the case later but in quite good form as a bookworm nuclear scientist who’s also something of a misanthrope), Charles Hawtrey (playing a radio fanatic, where his prissy antics are already a bit over-the-top), Joan Sims (as an accident-prone nurse), Hattie Jacques (as the fearsome Matron – which became her trademark role), Wilfrid Hyde-White (as an old man whose military record allows him privileged service at the hospital but hasn’t rescinded his gambling mania!), Leslie Philips (as a fun-loving sort who in a drunken binge with his fellow patients decides to have them perform his delayed operation themselves – the latter scene is the film’s hilarious highlight where, predictably, laughing gas is let loose at the most inopportune moment).The nominal leads here are actually Terence Longdon as a recovering reporter and gorgeous Shirley Eaton as the idealized nurse, who provide the obligatory romantic interest; Jill Ireland (the future Mrs. Charles Bronson) has one of her earliest roles as the girl who finally ensnares Williams, while both Michael Medwin and Norman Rossington appear briefly – as, respectively, Connor’s manager (a self-proclaimed showman) and a punch-drunk remnant of the boxing profession. Other gags revolve around a snob patient who’s continually embarrassed by his commoner wife, another who’s occasionally compelled to run riot in the corridors, and an impossibly solemn-looking student nurse. Apart from throwing Longdon and Eaton in each other’s arms, the denouement sees the release of several of the ‘star’ patients from the hospital – and culminates with the long-suffering nurses’ revenge on the fastidious Hyde-White, by fitting a daffodil in his rectum instead of a thermometer just as the Matron is making her rounds!