Strong and Moving!

Lack of good storyline.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

The early black and white Carry on films almost seem like a separate entity to the later, more bawdy, saucy postcard minded films. There was a soft, sweet innocence about the earliest films, and Nurse is perhaps the funniest. The medical formula clearly works well, a situation that would of course return a few times. The characters are excellent and truly lovable, the acting is terrific, Hattie Jacques and Wilfred Hyde White are the standouts, but everyone performs well. Great laughs, I'm always given fits of laughter by Charles Hawtrey's earphones, and I'm always charmed by Matron's smile after seeing the daffodil. Sweet, innocent fun that we'll never see the like of again.

CARRY ON NURSE was the second of 30 Films in the series which ran from 1958-1992 and has most of the regular team appearing including Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques, Leslie Philips and Joan Sims (on her Carry on Debut).As the title suggests,it's set in a Hospital ward where the 'Carry on' team is suffering from various ailments, driving the Nurses (Joan Hickson, Joan Sims, Shirley Eaton) along with the feared Matron (Hattie Jacques) to despair with their antics.Also starring, Wilfrid Hyde-White,Terrence Longdon & Bill Owen CARRY ON NURSE is very amusing without going overboard with the smutty and sexist innuendo that later productions in the Series became dependant on.CARRY ON NURSE was the most successful 'CARRY ON' of the series becoming the highest grossing Film in the UK during 1959 and it was also highly successful in the United States.***1/2 out of *****Followed by CARRY ON TEACHER (1959)

The second Carry On movie has a lot of familiar faces from the Carry On films and other people that would become famous. Wilfred Hyde White has always been a favorite of mine. He was great in Buck Rogers 20 years after this film. He plays one of the patients. A very young Jill Ireland plays the friend of Kenneth Williams, another patient. Kenneth Connor has the most inspired role of a fighter who was injured. Shirley Eaton from Goldfinger, returns to play one of the nurses. Joan Sims had a very good role here as a bumbling nurse. Hattie Jacques plays the Matron for the first time. The movie pretty much takes place in the hospital and deals with the lives of each patient. The flow of the movie is good, but I needed a little more humor. Charles Hawtrey has some funny scenes. He like to direct music as he plays it on his ear phones. I've read it was the top money maker in the UK for that year. I don't know if it was that good, but it's enjoyable.

I watched this movie as a kid and still get a real thrill out of it. Never fail to laugh at Charles Hawtrey falling out of bed whilst playing his imaginary piano. A great way to switch of and have a few belly laughs after a day at the office. EXCELLENT MOVIE FUN.Sadly not all the Carry On's were as good, the later productions being well below par. But most of the series were hugely enjoyable. I think they just ran out of steam at the end and became too smutty.The previous writer said this was the first of the Carry on films. Actually it may have been as far as USA audiences were concerned but the first here in the UK was Carry On Sargent 1958. Carry on Nurse followed in 1959. Altogether there were a total of 32 Carry On movies the last being made in the 1990's with an almost totally new cast the others having died or moved on to new interests.The last Carry on was Carry On Columbus which should have sunk before it reached the cinemas.