Carry On Matron. Image shows from L to R: Cyril Carter (Kenneth Cope), Matron (Hattie Jacques)
Carry On Matron

Carry On Matron

  • 1972 film

Medical-based comedy from the Carry On team. A gang plan to raid a maternity hospital to steal a gigantic stock of birth control pills. Stars Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques and more.

Carry On Matron. Image shows from L to R: Cyril Carter (Kenneth Cope), Sid Carter (Sid James). Copyright: Peter Rogers Productions

Key details

Genre
Film
Released
1972
Stars
Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, Bernard Bresslaw, Kenneth Cope, Terry Scott and more
Writer
Talbot Rothwell
Director
Gerald Thomas
Producer
Peter Rogers
Company

As Finisham Maternity Hospital welcomes its latest group of freshly qualified young nurses, one appears to be a little taller, a little broader, and a little gruffer than the others...

Cyril Carter - going by the rather clumsy moniker 'Cyrille' - is in drag, tasked by his petty crook of a father, and his accomplices, to find out where the hospital keeps its large stock of 'the pill'. This may be England and the permissive society with such medication freely available on the NHS, but there are other countries where customers will pay a pretty penny for such treatment! As soon as Cyril has located the stock, his father's small gang intend to steal the entire lot...

However, this is Cyril's first job and he's neither too keen to be put in drag nor too clued up on how to even begin to fit in. His father may be quick thinking, but he certainly is not! It's not long before he's raising the suspicions of more than a few of his fellow staff - and the ardour of ever-randy Doctor Prodd!

Meanwhile, hypochondriac head surgeon Sir Bernard Cutting is concerned he's caught Asian flu. That is unless he's actually turning into a woman. A brief word with psychologist Dr Goode leads him to decide that he is, in fact, in subconscious need of a woman in his life... Could the stern but kindly Matron be the answer?

Over in the nurse's quarters, Cyril has quickly fallen for his room-mate Susan, and it's not much longer before she figures out his real gender. But will she help him go through with it, or is this yet another spanner in the works of the plot?

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Additional details

Part of

Carry On Films

UK certificate
A
Duration
87 minutes
UK release
Thursday 18th May 1972
Distributors

The Rank Organisation

Production
Studio
Camera set-up
Single camera
Picture
Colour

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Broadcast details

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