Information
| Year: | 1967 |
| Rating: | 6.2(1133) |
| Listed in: | Comedy |
| Directed by: | Gerald Thomas |
| Actors: | Frankie Howerd Sid James Charles Hawtrey Kenneth Williams Jim Dale Barbara Windsor |
| "They're Back! In the funniest operation you'll see in any theatre" | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Gerald Thomas | |
| Actors | |
| Frankie Howerd | as Francis Bigger |
| Sid James | as Charlie Roper |
| Charles Hawtrey | as Mr. Barron |
| Kenneth Williams | as Dr. Kenneth Tinkle |
| Jim Dale | as Dr. Jim Kilmore |
| Bernard Bresslaw | as Ken Biddle |
| Peter Butterworth | as Mr. Smith |
| Derek Francis | as Sir Edmund Burke |
| Peter Jones | as Chaplain |
| Deryck Guyler | as Mr. Hardcastle |
| Peter Gilmore | as Henry |
| Harry Locke | as Sam |
| Julian Orchard | as Fred |
| Brian Wilde | as Man from Cox & Carter |
| Gertan Klauber | as Wash Orderly |
| Julian Holloway | as Simmons |
| Gordon Rollings | as Night Porter |
| Bart Allison | as Grandad |
| Simon Cain | as Tea Orderly |
| Stephen Garlick | as Boy |
| Actresses | |
| Barbara Windsor | as Nurse Sandra May |
| Joan Sims | as Chloë Gibson |
| Hattie Jacques | as Matron |
| Anita Harris | as Nurse Clarke |
| June Jago | as Sister Hoggett |
| Dandy Nichols | as Mrs. Roper |
| Gwendolyn Watts | as Mrs. Barron |
| Dilys Laye | as Mavis Winkle |
| Marianne Stone | as Mother |
| Jean St. Clair | as Mrs. Smith |
| Valerie Van Ost | as Nurse Parkin |
| Lucy Griffiths | as Miss Morris - Elderly Patient |
| Jenny White | as Nurse in Bath |
| Helen Ford | as Nurse |
| Pat Coombs | as Anxious Patient |
| Alexandra Dane | as Ante-Natal Instructor |
| Cheryl Molineaux | as Women's Ward Nurse |
| Jane Murdoch | as Nurse |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Filming dates: | 11 September 1967 - 20 October 1967 |
| Plot: | Francis Bigger, 'preacher and healer', ends up in hospital in this chaotic Carry-on medical movie. With Dr. Kilmore in trouble, Matron refuses to support him after the amorous attentions she has fed Dr. Tinkle have paid off. There's a humorous but slight role for Charles Hawtrey suffering from a sympathetic pregnancy and the film closes with the patients revenge on Dr. Tinkle and the formidable Matron because of their conspiracy against Dr. Kilmore. |
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Goofs
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Continuity: When the porter goes over to Sid with the tea he has two cups in his hand. But when we see the porter handing the tea to Sid James he has only one cup in his hand. Continuity: When Mr Bigger is being stretchered through some double doors following his X-Ray, he falls off the trolley onto the floor. In the close-up of an agonized Mr Bigger, you can see the pink uniform of the Nurse who later picks up Mr. Bigger. In the next shot, showing the whole corridor, the Nurse appears after the trolley has been wheeled out of the double doors. Continuity: When the ambulance arrives at the hospital, it parks at an angle in relation to the door. In the next shot, it is directly in line with the entrance. Continuity: Nurse May's bikini top is undone while she is sunbathing on the roof of the nurses' home. After she turns over, she sees Dr. Kilmore and stands up screaming while still holding the towel in front of her and her top has been done up again. Continuity: Mr Bigger's hands change between shots from being under the bed covers to over the bed covers and back again in the scene just after he has dressed in his hospital gown. Continuity: When Mr Roper is asking the nurse if he can have a fag, he is told to take his medicine, so he takes it. But in the next shot, when the nurse has gone and he is holding a newspaper, the medicine has disappeared. |
Quotes
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Biddle: Nurse I dreamt about you last night. Nurse Clarke: Did you? Biddle: No, you wouldn't let me. Dr James Kilmore: Just as I thought. You fell on your coccyx. Francis Bigger: I did not. I fell on my back. Dr James Kilmore: Your coccyx is at the base of the spine. Francis Bigger: Well I've never heard it called that before. [Kilmore backpedals straight into Matron in the hospital corridor] Matron: [Takes thermometer out of her pocket now shaped like a boomerang] That's the third one this week. Dr James Kilmore: Well, Matron, you can still use it on people who are a bit round the bend. [Mr. Bigger has just been knocked off the gurney he was lying on by the eternally clumsy Dr. Kilmore. Bigger lies hurt on the floor] Nurse Parkin: Mr Bigger, whatever are you doing down there? Francis Bigger: Waiting for a number 13 Bus! Dr. Tinkle: It's an enigma, Matron, an enigma. Mr. Roper: I'm not having another one of those. [On removal of the patient's bandages, he is invisible] Dr. Tinkle: Oh. I still don't like the look of him. Charlie Roper: What they brought you in here for then. Francis Bigger: Oh just some pain in the back. Its a ooh, ooh dear. Charlie Roper: Last bloke in that bed had the same thing. Francis Bigger: Did he? Charlie Roper: Right up to the end. Francis Bigger: Well that's cheerful. I say one thing for them it's a nice warm bed. Charlie Roper: Should be, they only took him out half an hour ago. Chloe Gibson: Doctor is Mr Bigger going to be alright? Dr. Kenneth Tinkle: Are you his next of kin? Chloe Gibson: Oh no but any day now. Dr. Kenneth Tinkle: What do you mean any day now? Chloe Gibson: Well me and Mr Bigger have had an understanding for a number of years and we are kind of on the verge of you know what I mean! [romantically in the operating theatre to each other in thought and not in voice] Matron: What a wonderful man you are, oh how I love you. Dr. Kenneth Tinkle: Oh how I love you. Nurse Sandra May: Oh, I thought you might be a man coming in. Nurse Clarke: Sorry to disappoint you. This is my room... Are you a trainee? Nurse Sandra May: Yes, I was told to report to Fosdick ward right away. Say, will Dr. Tinkle be there? Nurse Clarke: Probably, do you know him? Nurse Sandra May: Know him... [Nurse May reads from a signed photograph] To darling Sandra, my first date... Nurse Clarke: How nice. Nurse Sandra May: He saved my life, he's terrific he's a life giving doll. Matron: This hospital is getting too small for us, Doctor! Dr James Kilmore: Well, you're not all that big, Matron. [following Dr. Tinkle's insistence that Mr Barron attends a Pre Natal class] Mr. Barron: Never again never, from now on it's the pill! Man from Cox & Carter: They don't want rubber sheets, they want straightjackets. Francis Bigger: [seeing the ward sister being carried into the laundry room] Fancy her wearing red ones under all that! Mr. Roper: [on seeing Bigger come out of his room] Get back in there and keep quiet! Francis Bigger: [approaching Roper] Oh. What's this? The revolt of the slaves? Mr. Roper: Something like that. We've got some business to settle with Tinkle! Francis Bigger: [pointing to his room] You want me to stay in there? Never! Up the rebels, and to hell with Burgundy. Mr. Roper: Where? Francis Bigger: Bur-gun-dy! [Dr. Francis Bigger, while lying in his hospital bed, is talking to Mr. Biddle] Francis Bigger: What's your trouble? Biddle: Oh, I had my appendix out. Francis Bigger: Appendix? [Gestures to Biddle's bandaged leg] Francis Bigger: What about your leg? Biddle: Oh no. that happened when I fell off the operating table. Francis Bigger: Oh Francis Bigger: [Dr. Bigger chuckles softly and then lies his head back on his pillow as Biddle walks away. Dr. Bigger's head then turns and we see the shocked expression on his face as the sudden realisation of what Biddle has said hits home] |
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