Carry On Matron

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

1972 1h 27m EN

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★6.1TMDB · 81★6.2IMDB · 3,400

Comedy

Synopsis

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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.

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

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Cast

Sidney James
Sid Carter
Kenneth Williams
Sir Bernard Cutting
Charles Hawtrey
Dr. Francis A. Goode
Joan Sims
Mrs. Tidey
Hattie Jacques
Matron
Bernard Bresslaw
Ernie Bragg
Kenneth Cope
Cyril Carter
Terry Scott
Dr. Prodd

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Gerald Thomas
Writers: Talbot Rothwell
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom

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RUNTIME

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87 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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ERA

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54 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Carry On Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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ERA

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Directed by Gerald Thomas, shot by Ernest Steward. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Alfred Roome shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Sidney James and Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtrey carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "The Carry On team serve up another 'prescription' of hilarious comedy!!!".

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IMDB entry: tt0068339 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Gerald Thomas directs. Ernest Steward behind the camera. Alfred Roome cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United Kingdom. Dialogue in English.

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187 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
254 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Part of the "Carry On Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Gerald Thomas, shot by Ernest Steward. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Editor Alfred Roome shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Sidney James and Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtrey carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "The Carry On team serve up another 'prescription' of hilarious comedy!!!".
8IMDB entry: tt0068339 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Only 81 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
10Classified under 18 themes, including "nurse", "pregnancy", "son", "gang of thieves".

The technical file

Cinematography: Ernest Steward
Editing: Alfred Roome
Costume design: Courtenay Elliott
Makeup / hair: Stella Rivers
Runtime: 87 min · 1h 27m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): 12
IMDB: Carry On Matron (1972)
IMDB rating: 6.2/10 · 3,400 votes
MPAA: Not Rated

Part of

Carry On Collection

This is classic British comedy at it's best! This collection contains all 31 hilarious Carry On movies. Starring: Kenneth Williams Charles Hawtrey Jim Dale Joan Sims Barbara Windsor Hattie Jacques Windsor Davies Valerie Leon Peter Butterworth Bernard Bresslaw Terry Scott Bill Maynard Phil Silvers Patsy Rowlands and Frankie Howerd.

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John Chard2019-08-25
★ 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
CinemaSerf2023-07-26
★ 6/10
You can tell that the producers were beginning to run out of ideas for these as this hybrid of "Carry on Nurse" (1959) and "Carry on Doctor" (1967) hits the screen. This time Sid James isn't a patient. He is "Carter", audaciously planning to rob the "Finisham" hospital of it's supply of valuable drugs. To facilitate this crime, he decides that his son "Cyril" (Kenneth Cope) should don the garb of a nurse an impersonate one until he can get the lay of the land for their burglary. Meantime, "Dr. Prodd'' (Terry Scott) has the job the philandering bumbler, Hattie Jacques is this time a less ruthless matron and Joan Sims takes the cake as the eternally pregnant "Mrs. Tiday" who is quite happy to eat the place out of house and home while her poor railwayman husband (Kenneth Connor) grows steadily older and more frustrated in the waiting room. At times, there are still traces of the old style of slapstick humour; the writing is quite funny now and again and there is plenty of "how's your father" - real or imaginary for us to chortle at. It's not the best, nor anywhere near - but it's got plenty going on before an ending that did actually smack of sequel coming!!