What's Up Nurse!

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What's Up Nurse!
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Directed by Derek Ford
Screenplay byDerek Ford
Produced by Michael L. Green (producer)
Graham Stark (associate producer)
Starring John Le Mesurier
Graham Stark
Nicholas Field
Kate Williams
Angela Grant
Cinematography Les Young
Edited byRichard Marden
Music by Roger Webb
Distributed byBlackwater Film Productions
Release date
  • 1977 (1977)
Running time
77 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

What's Up Nurse! is a 1977 British sex comedy film directed and written by Derek Ford and starring Nicholas Field, Felicity Devonshire and John Le Mesurier. [1]

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It tells the story of the adventures of a young doctor in a hospital. The sequel What's Up Superdoc! was released the following year, with Christopher Mitchell replacing Nicholas Field as Dr Todd.

Cast

Reception

Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A dishearteningly unfunny sex comedy which discloses a painful package of unfailing bad taste (the most offensive sequence concerning a homosexual who believes he has given birth to a chimpanzee), stupefyingly dull sex scenes, and a collection of double entendres so ancient that they almost constitute some kind of intriguing pre-history of blue comedy." [2]

Léon Hunt describes the film along with Ford's What's Up Superdoc! (1978) as a "return to the Carry On films' favourite setting to explore slap-and-tickle amidst the bedpans." [3]

Sarah Street wrote that Ford's films Commuter Husbands (1972), Keep It Up, Jack (1973), The Sexplorer (1975) and What's Up Nurse (1977) were "films with salacious titles designed to titillate dwindling audiences with their suggestion of breaking taboos." [4]

Michael Hawkes awarded the film 3 out of 5 stars. [5]

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References

  1. "What's Up Nurse!". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  2. "What's Up Nurse!". Monthly Film Bulletin . 44 (516): 132. 1977 via ProQuest.
  3. Hunt, Léon (1998). British Low Culture: From Safari Suits to Sexploitation. Routledge. p. 113. ISBN   978-0-415-15182-5 . Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  4. Street, Sarah (2009). British National Cinema. Taylor & Francis. p. 110. ISBN   978-0-415-38421-6 . Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  5. Hawkes, Michael (9 July 2011). Review Haiku, Volume 2. p. 487. ISBN   978-0-9830662-2-4 . Retrieved 27 January 2013.