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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD EAN: 5037115033734 Format: PAL Languages: Number Of Discs: 1 Region Code: 2 Theatrical Release Date: 1967-12 Average Rating:
![]() Rating: - Highjinks that Never Grow OldI first saw this 20 years ago on an independent TV station and loved it. It is too bad that they do not include this installment with the other "Carry On" movies in the fine collection that they put out a few years ago The Carry On Collection. Frankie Howerd, Jim Dale, and Kenneth Williams are exceptionally funny. I loved Jim Dale as Dr. Killmore wooing a medical school skeleton in his office. Rating: - "Oh no you don't," says the patient to the nurse, who comes into his room holding daffodils, "I saw that film!"The patient is Francis Bigger, played by Frankie Howerd, and the line is a sly reference to the funniest scene in Carry On Nurse. It's probably the cleverest line in Carry On Doctor. Like Carry On Nurse, Carry On Doctor takes place in hospital and, as the movie says, is a bedpanorama of hospital life. The long-running Carry On movies were bawdy, low-comedy, good-natured madhouses that featured a repertory company of comics we came to recognize instantly. Here, the company is made up ... Read More Rating: - sequel to carry on nurseThis is the sequel to Carry on Nurse. As usual, sequels are not quite as good as the first movie, especially for people who have seen the first one many times. One of the problems is that scenes that were not included in the first one because they were less funny than the included scenes are included in the sequel. If you have not seen Carry on Nurse this will still be a funny movie. People who have seen the nurse one will not be as amused. Rating: - CARRY ON DOCTORFor the 15th entry in the long running British comedy film series, it was a return to familiar terriotry - the hospital. Carry On Nurse (1958) had enjoyed immense International success so a similar formular was re-worked into Carry On Doctor. It must be said that Carry On Doctor is amongst the most famous in the series and indeed it has many fine moments throughout, although I have to say that I found Again Doctor (1969) to be more satisfying as there was a little bit more of (dare I say ... Read More |