Carry On Again Doctor! 1969
This film brings me to the time 40 years on my daily bus trips to Hutchings School on the public bus. On one of the lucky days when I get a seat on the bus, I would gain passive learning absorbing like a sponge from the view I would see off the bus. The area at the end of Dato Kramat Road opposite 'Craven A' restaurant used to be an area (now Gama supermarket, don't know whether it is still there) with a large 2 storey high 3 faced cinema billboard depicting shows playing at cinemas Cathay, Odeon and Gala. Cathay always screens English language movies, Odeon Mandarin/Cantonese whilst Gala, I presume was for adult themed and horrors flicks. I remember seeing posters from the 'Carry On' series and the then scary sensation 'Snake Girl' and 'Snake Woman' Hong Kong films.
For this old times' sake, I decided to give this movie a go. 'Carry on again Doctor' is a British slapstick comedy with a little bit of English wittiness infused in its dialogue. It is just a commercially focused sex exploiting pass time film with no cerebral activity. Oh what the heck, time to unwind after heavy dialogue saga of World War 2 and Adolf Hitler.
In fact the 'Carry On' series, all 31 of them are the biggest thing contributed by UK to the cinema world after The Man from the Secret Service with the licence to kill.
The recurring cast appears all most their films. In this 1969 outing, the story revolves around a bumbling young doctor Dr Nookey who is forever creating havoc in this NHS hospital. After creating quite a ruckus at a hospital charity party after his drink was spiked with surgical spirit, he banished to serve as a doctor in a godforsaken shack called hospital in a tropical island where it rains for 9 months in a year and there is typhoon for the other three.
You see, this banishment was the Senior Surgeon Dr Shaver's scheme to place a doctor in a widow's (Mrs Moore) missionary hospital that she was financing. In return, Dr Shaver was to received funds for him to start his own nursing home.
Dr Nookey found that that what he thought as hospital in paradise turned out to be a leaky ramshackle run by an orderly, Mr Screwy. As all the natives still believed in the witch doctor and no one seek modern treatment, Screwy use the drug money to stock loads of Red Label whiskey.
The wards turned out to be where Screwy housed his 5 wives and kids!
Disheartened, Dr Nookey drowns his sorrow in the bottle. Screwy tries to get Dr Nookey to marry one of the local girl. Noticing that the girl was way overweight, he declines. Screwy brings the same girl a week later much slimmer with his own witch doctor formulation of medicine.
Nookey trades the medicine for a box and cigarette (Rothmans) and heads back home. With Mrs Moore's financial backing, he starts his own successful private weight loss practice.
Reading about his success in the media, his former colleagues and Screwy scramble over to claim their share of the pie with hysterical predictable outcome.
Just good to pass time when you have nothing else better to do....
This film brings me to the time 40 years on my daily bus trips to Hutchings School on the public bus. On one of the lucky days when I get a seat on the bus, I would gain passive learning absorbing like a sponge from the view I would see off the bus. The area at the end of Dato Kramat Road opposite 'Craven A' restaurant used to be an area (now Gama supermarket, don't know whether it is still there) with a large 2 storey high 3 faced cinema billboard depicting shows playing at cinemas Cathay, Odeon and Gala. Cathay always screens English language movies, Odeon Mandarin/Cantonese whilst Gala, I presume was for adult themed and horrors flicks. I remember seeing posters from the 'Carry On' series and the then scary sensation 'Snake Girl' and 'Snake Woman' Hong Kong films.For this old times' sake, I decided to give this movie a go. 'Carry on again Doctor' is a British slapstick comedy with a little bit of English wittiness infused in its dialogue. It is just a commercially focused sex exploiting pass time film with no cerebral activity. Oh what the heck, time to unwind after heavy dialogue saga of World War 2 and Adolf Hitler.
In fact the 'Carry On' series, all 31 of them are the biggest thing contributed by UK to the cinema world after The Man from the Secret Service with the licence to kill.
The recurring cast appears all most their films. In this 1969 outing, the story revolves around a bumbling young doctor Dr Nookey who is forever creating havoc in this NHS hospital. After creating quite a ruckus at a hospital charity party after his drink was spiked with surgical spirit, he banished to serve as a doctor in a godforsaken shack called hospital in a tropical island where it rains for 9 months in a year and there is typhoon for the other three.
You see, this banishment was the Senior Surgeon Dr Shaver's scheme to place a doctor in a widow's (Mrs Moore) missionary hospital that she was financing. In return, Dr Shaver was to received funds for him to start his own nursing home.Dr Nookey found that that what he thought as hospital in paradise turned out to be a leaky ramshackle run by an orderly, Mr Screwy. As all the natives still believed in the witch doctor and no one seek modern treatment, Screwy use the drug money to stock loads of Red Label whiskey.
The wards turned out to be where Screwy housed his 5 wives and kids!
Disheartened, Dr Nookey drowns his sorrow in the bottle. Screwy tries to get Dr Nookey to marry one of the local girl. Noticing that the girl was way overweight, he declines. Screwy brings the same girl a week later much slimmer with his own witch doctor formulation of medicine.Nookey trades the medicine for a box and cigarette (Rothmans) and heads back home. With Mrs Moore's financial backing, he starts his own successful private weight loss practice.
Reading about his success in the media, his former colleagues and Screwy scramble over to claim their share of the pie with hysterical predictable outcome.
Just good to pass time when you have nothing else better to do....
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