This second film in the series finds the Carry On team on the men's ward of Haven Hospital but unlike the first film, 'Carry on Sergeant', there is no plot to speak of, just a series of amusing events involving the patients and the nurses looking after them. The patients are a varied bunch and include a nuclear physicist, a boxer with a broken hand, a man with a broken leg and another with a bunion. During the film they have amusing interactions with each other and the nurses, however it isn't until close to the end that they all interact in the most amusing scene in the film… after a couple of bottles of late night champagne the physicist claims that he is quite capable of operating on the man's bunion but after a slight accident with the nitrous oxide none of them are capable of doing anything! It isn't just the patients who are providing laughs, accident prone Student Nurse Stella Dawson provides plenty too; most notably when she gets her revenge on an awkward patient in a way that I'm surprised the 1959 censors allowed!This film was fun to watch although it didn't contain as many laugh out loud moments as some films in the series it did make me chuckle a few times. The cast did a decent job; the regulars are clearly already comfortable in their roles. One or two of the jokes are a bit 'naughty' but are never as crude as those to be found in the later instalments of the series meaning it is probably okay for younger viewers to watch although some parents might disagree. Watching this it is clear that health care has changed a lot in the last fifty years; no longer does Matron rule the ward with a rod of iron and patients certainly don't smoke in the hospital… these days they stand outside the front door to do it!

While not a laugh riot, this film about nurses and patients at a ward at Haven Hospital holds your interest because of the endearing characters. Kenneth Williams is his usual fun self, aided by an interest in a young (and fairly beautiful, of course) Jill Ireland. Joan Sims plays a bumbling student nurse perfectly, while Hattie Jacques is near perfect as the unamused matron. The beautiful Shirley Eaton is also in this, any film I've seen her in she has been naturally good. The jokes are not hilarious or anything like that, but the film puts a smile on your face often enough (Charles Haughtry is funny in this). There have been (much) worse Carry On Films and some better, but this is a watchable one I think you'll enjoy but not love.

I am quite fond of the Carry On movies, and Carry on Nurse while not the best is no exception. It is too short, the story is rather slight and plays second-fiddle to the gags and while most of them are funny and work very well the film does overdose a tad on the food, bedpan and needle gags. The film does look good enough, I can understand why people would say it's dated, but the photography is crisp and the setting is quite nice too. Carry on Nurse is efficiently directed by Gerald Thomas, the script is snappy and the gags are funny. The performances also add a lot, Hattie Jacques is superb while Joan Hickson, Joan Sims, Shirley Eaton, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams and especially Wilfred Hyde-White are a lot of fun to watch. All in all, an enjoyable film and worth seeing for the cast. 7/10 Bethany Cox

This was only the second film to be released in the series of sexy British comedies, it was also the first of four to be set in a hospital, followed by Doctor, Again Doctor and Matron. Basically the setting is Haven Hospital in the men's ward where small havocs are caused very often. New to the ward is boxer Bernie Bishop (Kenneth Connor) with a broken hand, and fellow patients include Humphrey Hinton (Charles Hawtrey) who loves to listen to the radio, The Colonel (Wilfrid Hyde-White) who often bets on horse races, Oliver Reckitt (Kenneth Williams) who is an intellectual and doesn't seem to have much fun, Ted York (Terence Longdon) the journalist who has a thing for Staff Nurse Dorothy Denton (Goldfinger's Shirley Eaton), and Jack Bell (Leslie Phillips) the posh gentlemen with his (iconic for Phillips) catchphrase "Ding Dong". The film is mainly a series of small events of havoc where the men want to have some fun, talk a few innuendos, carry on whatever routines they have made for themselves, and try to avoid trouble from the Matron (Hattie Jacques), oh, and we see Student Nurse Stella Dawson (Joan Sims) and other staff working a little. Also starring Bill Owen as Percy 'Perc' Hickson and Susan Stephen as Nurse Georgie Axwell. Obviously this is very small location and doesn't get out and about like the later films, it sticks more to small fry jokes involving bedpans, food, mime, a great catchphrase, and an attempted operation, but it has its tiny giggles, so it's not such a bad comedy. Carry On films were number 39 on The 100 Greatest Pop Culture Icons. Worth watching!