Carry On Nurse
British Classics
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Comedy, UR
With a colonel constantly causing annoyance, a bumbling nurse, a budding romance between a patient and nurse, and a man obsessed with having his bunion removed, Haven Hospital's new Matron (Hattie Jacques) has a lot of hard work ahead. As she goes on ruling with an iron fist, Oliver Reckitt (Kenneth Williams) and his band of idiosyncratic men decide to take a stand.
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