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Carry On Matron

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6.1/10 • 71

1972-05-051h 27m

Comedy

The Carry On team serve up another 'prescription' of hilarious comedy!!!

A gang of thieves plan to make their fortune by stealing a shipment of contraceptive pills from Finisham maternity hospital. They assume disguises and infiltrate the hospital, but everything doesn't go according to plan. The hypochondriac consultant Sir Bernard Cutting, Matron and the doctors and nurses at Finisham have a habit of getting in the way.

Directors
Gerald Thomas
Editors
Alfred Roome

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  1. Sid James

    Sid James

    Sid Carter

  2. Kenneth Williams

    Kenneth Williams

    Sir Bernard Cutting

  3. Charles Hawtrey

    Charles Hawtrey

    Dr. Francis A. Goode

  4. Joan Sims

    Joan Sims

    Mrs. Tidey

  5. Hattie Jacques

    Hattie Jacques

    Matron

  6. Bernard Bresslaw

    Bernard Bresslaw

    Ernie Bragg

  7. Kenneth Cope

    Kenneth Cope

    Cyril Carter

  8. Terry Scott

    Terry Scott

    Dr. Prodd

  9. Barbara Windsor

    Barbara Windsor

    Nurse Susan Ball

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John Chard

Aug 25, 2019

7/10

The Bun and Oven Wards are open at Finisham Maternity Hospital. The 23rd film in the Carry On series and the fourth (and last) of the medical themed adventures. Sid Carter (Sid James) leads a gang of thieves who plan to break into Finisham Hospital and steal a load of contraceptive pills to sell abroad. But where are they kept? Sid decides to send his son Cyril (Kenneth Cope) in undercover disguised as a nurse... They probably seem like cheap gags now, but much mirth is mined from the scenarios set up by a man undercover as a female nurse. Cue him having to share a room with a foxy babe (Babs Windsor), having to fight off the attentions of the randy Doctor Prodd (a brilliant film stealing Terry Scott) and him getting involved with medical issues he has no idea about (yikes this is a maternity hospital!). Elsewhere Joan Simms portrays a human eating machine that is three weeks over due, while her poor railway worker husband (Kenneth Connor great as always) goes insane in the waiting room. Kenneth Williams is the hypochondriac hospital manager and the wonderful Hattie Jacques gets great scenes in a film thats title and script acknowledges her work in the medical Carry On films. Briskly paced by the ever reliable Gerald Thomas, "Matron" is one of the more likable and funny Carry On entries of the 70s. 7.5/10

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
nursepregnancysongang of thievesfatherhypochondriaccrookromancecarry onhospitalcross dressingdoctordragdouble entendreinnuendomatronpatients