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      Carry on Doctor

      PG 1967 1h 35m Comedy List
      Reviews 69% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings A British advocate (Frankie Howerd) of mind over matter lands in a hospital where nobody minds and nothing matters. Read More Read Less

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      MFB Critics Monthly Film Bulletin The plot is no more than a mess of inane sketches involving the misfortunes of hospital patients and staff, punctuated by a string of tasteless jokes about castor oil, bedpans and parts of the anatomy. Jan 25, 2018 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Aug 7, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member This movie is brilliant! Hilarious! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member A bit hit-and-miss but generally good fun. The life and times of the doctors, nurses and patients at an English hospital. Some weird and wacky characters and funny scenarios make this a reasonable comedy. Story line is fairly interesting and there are some great laugh-out-loud moments. However, in between all this there are some pretty silly scenes. Some attempted jokes fall very flat. Overall it is reasonably good fun. Hardly a must-see but worth watching if you want some mindless entertainment and have 1 1/2 hours to kill. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member This is about my favourite of all the Carry On films and is way above average. It features just about ALL the classic Carry On actors from Sid James to Kenneth Williams to Hattie Jacques to Jim Dale. Once Sid James died the Carry On films took a real nose dive in my opinion - relying much more on crass humour and nudity than the more subtle 'bawdy' humour mixed with subtle social satire of the time. So this is Carry On in full flow and you will need a good few viewings to take in all of the jokes as they're so rapid fire at times. Totally recommend. I would question the accuracy of the listing for the film here though - claiming it had a dvd release in 1972! Miraculous that one seeing as dvds weren't invented for another 30 years. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member OK. Very middle of the road for the series. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Best of the Carry Ons, almost complete cast, only Kenneth Connor missing, laugh a minute, brilliant performance from Jim Dale, and patients including Charles Hawtrey and Bernard Bresslaw. Dilys Laye is suerb. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Not the strongest of Carry On movies, this one. There are the usual corny jokes, slapstick and double entendres but this does feel like the cast is rather going through the motions. For me, the Carry Ons work best when they are given a historical setting and here we have what is basically a send up of General Hospital and Doctor Kildare. All the cast have well defined parts to play in the formula with Sid James being the lecherous wise-cracker, Hattie Jacques the sexually repressed dragon, Frankie Howerd the snob, Kenneth Williams the overbearing authority figure and so on. To modern eyes, it all feels rather ham fisted but in their day and when they were on form, these were proper British, belly-laugh comedies that gave many of us a liking for the nod,nod, wink, wink saucy humour. Staggering though it is, Barbara Windsor really was a sex symbol in her day, though watching her here, splayed out on a rooftop in an ill fitting nylon bikini while sunbathing it is really hard to understand why. The actors in these films are all however, great British institutions and even Dandy Nichols and Pat Coombs get bit parts in this one. Carry On Doctor is a product of an era gone by. It is far from sophisticated and intelligent but I'd rather watch this than many of the modern comedy movies that we are subjected to these days. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis A British advocate (Frankie Howerd) of mind over matter lands in a hospital where nobody minds and nothing matters.
      Director
      Gerald Thomas
      Screenwriter
      Talbot Rothwell
      Production Co
      The Rank Organisation, Adder Productions
      Rating
      PG
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      May 23, 2017
      Runtime
      1h 35m
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