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Un thermomètre pour le colonel

Original title: Carry on Nurse
  • 1959
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  • 1h 26m
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6.2/10
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Un thermomètre pour le colonel (1959)
Set in Haven Hospital where a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital put together. The formidable Matron's debut gives the patients a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her. There's a colonel who is a constant nuisance, a bumbling nurse, a romance between Ted York and Nurse Denton, and Bell who wants his bunion removed straight away, so after drinking alcohol, the men decide to remove the bunion themselves!
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An idiosyncratic group of patients wreak havoc in the men's surgical ward of Haven Hospital. They decide to take their revenge on the frosty Matron, and there is even a spot of DIY surgery!An idiosyncratic group of patients wreak havoc in the men's surgical ward of Haven Hospital. They decide to take their revenge on the frosty Matron, and there is even a spot of DIY surgery!An idiosyncratic group of patients wreak havoc in the men's surgical ward of Haven Hospital. They decide to take their revenge on the frosty Matron, and there is even a spot of DIY surgery!

  • Director
    • Gerald Thomas
  • Writers
    • Patrick Cargill
    • Jack Beale
    • Norman Hudis
  • Stars
    • Kenneth Williams
    • Hattie Jacques
    • Kenneth Connor
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  • IMDb RATING
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    • Director
      • Gerald Thomas
    • Writers
      • Patrick Cargill
      • Jack Beale
      • Norman Hudis
    • Stars
      • Kenneth Williams
      • Hattie Jacques
      • Kenneth Connor
    • 47User reviews
    • 18Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Kenneth Williams
    Kenneth Williams
    • Oliver Reckitt
    Hattie Jacques
    Hattie Jacques
    • Matron
    Kenneth Connor
    Kenneth Connor
    • Bernie Bishop
    Shirley Eaton
    Shirley Eaton
    • Dorothy Denton
    Charles Hawtrey
    Charles Hawtrey
    • Humphrey Hinton
    Terence Longdon
    Terence Longdon
    • Ted York
    Bill Owen
    Bill Owen
    • Percy Hickson
    Leslie Phillips
    Leslie Phillips
    • Jack Bell
    Joan Sims
    Joan Sims
    • Stella Dawson
    Susan Stephen
    Susan Stephen
    • Georgie Axwell
    Wilfrid Hyde-White
    Wilfrid Hyde-White
    • The Colonel
    • (as Wilfrid Hyde White)
    Susan Beaumont
    • Frances James
    Ann Firbank
    Ann Firbank
    • Helen Lloyd
    Joan Hickson
    Joan Hickson
    • Sister
    Cyril Chamberlain
    • Bert Able
    Harry Locke
    • Mick
    Norman Rossington
    Norman Rossington
    • Norm
    Brian Oulton
    Brian Oulton
    • Henry Bray
    • Director
      • Gerald Thomas
    • Writers
      • Patrick Cargill
      • Jack Beale
      • Norman Hudis
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    gnb

    A good dose of comedy...

    "Carry on Nurse" is one of the finer examples in the series. Only the second film to be made this still captures the naive charm of late 50s humour while exploring the more risque ground of the double-entendre.

    The usual gang of misfits are present: Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques (playing Matron!) and Joan Sims in her first "Carry On..." appearance.

    The hospital setting works especially well in this film and indeed later entries in the series which sees the gang placed within some institution or other are usually worth a look to see how our heroes react and rebel against authority.

    "Nurse", actually voted Best British Film of 1958, is a delight to watch and it's hard to equate this with something as bawdy as "Camping" or "Girls".

    And the ending is a scream too with a most inventive use for a daffodil in medical history!
    6dave13-1

    As British as fish and chips

    The Carry On formula was a straightforward one: take any familiar stuffy Brit institution with its blustering authority figures and inflexible bureaucracy and reduce it to chaos with a little strategically applied low class maliciousness. The resulting mayhem and farcical runnings about inevitably turn pompous prigs into quivering jellies, to the roaring amusement of Brit audiences who lived their lives under the heel of such petty authorities and loved to watch them taken down.

    Carry on Nurse, with its casual snipes at the Public Health, zany ward carryings on after hours by bored neglected patients fed up with their authoritarian Matron (Hattie Jacques, in her first of more than a dozen appearances as this familiar type) and fighting back in a series of anarchic stunts, shows the Carry On formula in ready-made form and is an excellent starting point for new viewers.
    8chris_gaskin123

    Welcome to Haven Hospital

    Carry On Nurse was the second of the Carry On movies and also the first of the medical ones.

    This one is about life in a ward in Haven Hospital. The patients include a boxer, nuclear scientist and a Major. We get to see one of them snogging a nurse, the Major always calling for help and, best of all, the patients trying to do a bunion operation while breathing in laughing gas! There is also an accident prone nurse to add to the chaos.

    I find this to be one of the funnier Carry Ons and is shot well in black and white.

    Now to the cast, which includes plenty of well known stars joining the regulars: Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jaques, Kenneth Conner, Charles Hawtrey, Leslie Phillips and the Carry On debuts of Joan Sims and June Whitfield. With Bond girl Shirley Eaton (before she was painted gold in Goldfinger), Bill Owen (Compo from Last Of the Sumer Wine), Norman Rossington, Joan Hickson (Miss Marple), Susan Shaw, Jill Ireland (Charles Bronson's wife) and Wilfred Hyde-White as the Major.

    Have a good laugh with Carry On Nurse. Great fun.

    Rating: 4 stars out of 5.
    crossbow0106

    Amusing Film

    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.
    richard.fuller1

    And Now For An American Point of View

    Well, it was interesting. I laughed more at "Carry On Sergeant".

    Fun seeing Wilfred Hyde White, an early Jill Ireland (but as a love interest for old Nasal Nose?) and June Whitfield, no doubt best known in America as Edina's mother on "Absolutely Fabulous."

    The strongest point seemed to be waiting for Matron (what little I have seen of this woman, she is steadily emerging as the fave) to show up for inspection, but nothing really coming of it. I suppose the daffodil scene was bold for its time, must remember that. Certainly more daring than anything on American cinema.

    I did enjoy Nurse Nightingale tho, keeping an eye on the patient.

    There was just a bit of a hint of what is to come with Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques, as the two argued here over why he couldn't wear his robe while lying in bed.

    And the laughing gas operation was highly original. I would wager that scene had something to do with why it got noticed in America.

    Truthfully, I have never heard of any of these movies until a vacation to the UK back in '97.

    It is an utterly fascinating idea to use the same actors over and over again in different settings tho.

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    • Trivia
      The "Carry on..." debut of Joan Sims. Sims became the longest serving female member of the "Carry on..." team, appearing in twenty-four of the series from 1959.
    • Goofs
      When the nurse is discovered hidden in the bed, she runs up the stairs in her underwear, but when she next appears, both her petticoat and hairstyle are different.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      The Colonel: [in he turned onto his stomach supposedly with his trousers down] Come come, Matron. Surely you've seen a temperature taken like this before?

      Matron: Yes Colonel. Many times. But never... with a daffodil!

    • Alternate versions
      For the original UK cinema release cuts were made to remove some crude dialogue and footage. Among them a referral to spilt ball-bearings ("You can pick up Mr Hickson's balls"), the nurse's comment to Bernie after his shorts are removed ("What a big fuss about such a little thing") lost a shot of Bernie peering under the bed sheet, and Ted's hospital shaving scene was cut to remove the shots of Mick splashing him (below screen) with shaving cream. The latter was later restored to video releases although other cut footage may be lost forever.
    • Connections
      Featured in This Is Your Life: Hattie Jacques (1963)

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    • Release date
      • June 3, 1960 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Languages
      • English
      • Latin
    • Also known as
      • Carry on Nurse
    • Filming locations
      • Heatherden Hall, Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK(the front of Haven Hospital)
    • Production companies
      • Peter Rogers Productions
      • Beaconsfield Productions
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 26m(86 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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