CARRY ON DOCTOR (1967) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Gerald Thomas
Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey,
Frankie Howerd, Jim Dale, Hattie Jacques,
Bernard Bresslaw, Barbara Windsor, Joan Sims,
Peter Butterworth, Anita Harris, Peter Jones
The Carry On Gang takes over a hospital (one of their favorite locations), and much silliness ensues. It's one of the troupe's funniest movies, one where it seems they all got together and said, hey, look, we've got everybody in a hospital, let's see how many jokes we can get out of that. A lot, as it turns out, and the fact that you can see most of them coming from ten miles off actually helps. Like there's the bit where Jim Dale's slipping down off a steep roof, and Anita Harris offers to save him by hanging onto the peak and stretching down so he can use her as a ladder and climb back up. So he does that, grabbing her feet, and then her legs, and then her skirt, which comes loose, and, well, guessing what happens next is not too difficult. That's "Carry On".
Barbara Windsor
(1937-2020)
