Directed by:
Gerald ThomasScreenplay:
Talbot RothwellCinematography:
Ernest StewardCast:
Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Kenneth Cope, Kenneth Connor, Madeline Smith, Margaret Nolan, Valerie Leon, Patsy Rowlands (more)Plots(1)
Hattie Jacques finally got to the play the title role in 1972 when Carry On Matron immortalised the character she had developed during several previous outings, most notably in Carry On Doctor. And she seized it with gusto. This is no one-dimensional performance, but a very human portrait of a woman doing her best to retain her authority in the face of mounting chaos - a raid planned by Sid James to steal the hospital's supply of contraceptive pills. Certainly, she's obsessed with regular bowel movements - this wouldn't be a Carry On film otherwise - but she remains a majestic figure of dignity with a touch of human warmth. Occasionally, too, a real hint of irony peeks through the slapstick and the innuendo. (ITV Studios Home Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Sidney James
South Africa
Best movies:
Father Brown (1954)
The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
The Silent Enemy (1958)
Kenneth Williams
UK
Best movies:
Carry On Cleo (1964)
The Thief and the Cobbler (1993)
Innocents in Paris (1953)
Charles Hawtrey
UK
Best movies:
Sabotage (1936)
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Joan Sims
UK
Best movies:
Trouble in Store (1953)
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced (1985) (TV movie)
Deceptions (1985) (TV movie)
Kenneth Cope
UK
Best movies:
Juggernaut (1974)
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987) (TV movie)
Captives (1994)
Kenneth Connor
UK
Best movies:
The Ladykillers (1955)
The Magic Christian (1969)
Carry On Cleo (1964)
Madeline Smith
UK
Best movies:
The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972)
Live and Let Die (1973)
Theatre of Blood (1973)
Margaret Nolan
UK
Best movies:
Goldfinger (1964)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Last Night in Soho (2021)
Valerie Leon
UK
Best movies:
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
The Italian Job (1969)
Patsy Rowlands
UK
Best movies:
A Stitch in Time (1963)
A Kind of Loving (1962)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980) (TV movie)
Gwendolyn Watts
UK
Best movies:
Billy Liar (1963)
The Wrong Box (1966)
Fanatic (1965)
Barbara Windsor
UK
Best movies:
It Couldn't Happen Here (1987)
Comrades (1986)
The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)
Bernard Bresslaw
UK
Best movies:
Asterix and the Big Fight (1989)
Jabberwocky (1977)
Spring and Port Wine (1970)
Hattie Jacques
UK
Best movies:
Oliver Twist (1948)
Follow a Star (1959)
School for Scoundrels (1960)
Amelia Bayntun
Best movies:
Thunderball (1965)
The Railway Children (1970)
Robin Hunter
UK
Best movies:
Masters of Venus (1962)
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) (series)
The Sign of Four (1987) (TV movie)
Michael Nightingale
UK
Best movies:
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
Cadfael (1994) (series)
Ice-Cold in Alex (1958)
Brian Osborne
UK
Best movies:
Women in Love (1969)
Last Orders (2001)
Under Milk Wood (1971)
Terry Scott
UK
Best movies:
Murder Most Foul (1964)
I'm All Right Jack (1959)
Bill Maynard
UK
Best movies:
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1975)
Dalziel and Pascoe (1996) (series)
Robin and Marian (1976)