Carry On Doctor (Original title)
Dates: 1967 (Copyright), 14 April 1968 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Gerald Thomas
Synopsis: Comedy. Francis Bigger, a fake faith healer, ironically becomes the principal patient in a country hospital. He overhears a conversation between two doctors and mistakingly thinks he only has days live. He then sets about a revolt in the hospital.
Genres: Comedy, Medical drama
Subjects: Hospitals, Faith healing, Carry on Doctor (1968)
Releases
Date: 1968Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 94 mins Length: 8432 FeetDialogue (original): English
Dates: 1967 (Copyright), 14 April 1968 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Gerald Thomas
Synopsis: Comedy. Francis Bigger, a fake faith healer, ironically becomes the principal patient in a country hospital. He overhears a conversation between two doctors and mistakingly thinks he only has days live. He then sets about a revolt in the hospital.
Genres: Comedy, Medical drama
Subjects: Hospitals, Faith healing, Carry on Doctor (1968)
Releases
Date: 1968Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 94 mins Length: 8432 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
(43)
©/Presents: Rank Film Distributors, [Production Company]: Adder Productions, Presents: The Rank Organisation, Produced by: Peter Rogers, Production Manager: Jack Swinburne, [Production Secretary]: Julie Leighton-White, Assistant Director: Terry Clegg, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Neville Thompson, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: Raymond Symonds, Continuity: Joy Mercer, [Casting Director]: Weston Drury Jr, Screenplay by: Talbot Rothwell, Director of Photography: Alan Hume, Camera Operator: Jim Bawden, [Focus Puller]: Michael Rutter, [Clapper Loader]: Anthony Pavey, [Electrics Supervisor]: Harry Black, [Chief Electrician]: John Tythe, [Camera Grip]: Reg Hall, [Stills]: Ian Jeayes, Editor: Alfred Roome, [Assistant Editor]: Jack Gardner, [Assistant Editor (2nd)]: Jean Short, Art Director: Cedric Dawe, [Set Dresser]: Dorothy Elliott, [Draughtsman]: John Fenner, [Junior Draughtsman]: Barbara Simkins, Costume Designer: Yvonne Caffin, [Wardrobe Mistress]: Vi Murray, Maggie Lewin, Make-up: Geoffrey Rodway, [Assistant Make-up]: Nora Rodway, Hairdressing: Stella Rivers, Title Sketches: Larry, Music Composed and Conducted by: Eric Rogers, Sound Recordist: Dudley Messenger, Ken Barker, [Boom Operator]: Danny Daniel, Dubbing Editor: David Campling, [Publicity]: Tony Hill, Made at: Pinewood Studios, [Audio Commentary/GB 2003 DVD] (NFTVA): Jim Dale
Cast
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Patrick Allen ([Opening Narration]), Frankie Howerd (Francis Bigger), Sidney James (Charlie Roper), Charles Hawtrey (Mr Barron), Kenneth Williams (Doctor Tinkle), Jim Dale (Doctor Kilmore), Barbara Windsor (Sandra May), Joan Sims (Chloe Gibson), Bernard Bresslaw (Ken Biddle), Hattie Jacques (matron), Anita Harris (Nurse Clarke), Peter Butterworth (Mr Smith), June Jago (Sister Hoggett), Derek Francis (Sir Edmund Burke), Dandy Nichols (Mrs Roper), Peter Jones (chaplain), Deryck Guyler (Surgeon Hardcastle), Gwendolyn Watts (Mrs Barron), Dilys Laye (Mavis Winkle), Peter Gilmore (Henry, ambulance man), Harry Locke (Sam, ambulance man), Marianne Stone (mum), Jean St. Clair (Mrs Smith), Valerie Van Ost (Nurse Parkin), Julian Orchard (Fred, Biddle's visitor), Brian Wilde (man from Cox & Carter), Lucy Griffiths (patient), Gertan Klauber (second orderly), Julian Holloway (Simmons), Jenny White (nurse in bath), Helen Ford (nurse), Gordon Rollings (night porter), Alexandra Dane ([pre-natal instructress]), Pat Coombs ([patient]), Simon Cain ([tea orderly]), Penelope Keith ([plain nurse]), Cheryl Molineaux ([women's ward nurse]), Bart Allison ([grandad]), Jane Murdoch ([nurse]), Stephen Garlick ([small boy])