41 degrees of love

Movie
German title	41 degrees of love
Original title	Carry On Nurse
Country of production	United Kingdom
original language	English
Publishing year	1958
length	86 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Gerald Thomas
script	Norman Hudis
production	Peter Rogers
music	Bruce Montgomery
camera	Reginald H. Wyer
cut	John Shirley
occupation
Shirley Eaton : Sister Dorothy Denton Kenneth Connor : Bernie Bishop Charles Hawtrey : Hinton Hattie Jacques : Head Nurse Kenneth Williams : Oliver Reckitt Leslie Phillips : Corporal Jack Bell Terence Longdon : Ted York Joan Sims : Sister Stella Dawson Susan Stephen : Georgie Axwell Bill Owen : Percy Hickson Wilfrid Hyde-White : The general Irene Handl : Madge Hickson Michael Medwin : Ginger Norman Rossington : Norm Rosalind Knight : Sister Nightingale Jill Ireland : Jill Thompson Marianne Stone : Alice Able June Whitfield : Meg

41 Grad Liebe (Original title: Carry On Nurse ) is the second film in the Carry-On film series, a parody of hospital films.

content

The "everyday" madness at Haven Hospital . The hospital is run with an iron hand by the head nurse who has patients, doctors and nurses under control. But this time there are a lot of crazy patients in the men's ward who are making life difficult for the staff: Bernie Bishop, an uptight boxer, Oliver Reckitt, a bookworm, Hinton who listens to the radio giggling all the time and, last but not least, the crazy general, who keeps all sisters busy. When it comes to a romance between one of the few normal patients, Ted York, and the pretty student nurse Dorothy Denton, the strict moral rules of the head nurse are broken. When the head nurse tries to take action here with an iron hand, the patients revolt, which forces the head nurse not to stand in the way of the young happiness.

Remarks

The second film in the Carry-On series lays the foundations for what is to follow. The actors are slowly assigned fixed roles, which they often vary in the following films. Many of the stars and side stars can already be seen here. Now and then there is even a flash of the anarchist humor that will characterize the series in its classic phase. In the end, however, the film is still a rather leisurely comedy with no real highlights, sometimes a bit half-baked in its figure drawing. For the first time, director Gerald Thomas follows his successful brother Ralph Thomas ( doctoral film series ) into the genre of medical films, which were to be parodied two more times in this series ( The totally crazy hospital and The totally crazy madhouse ).

Reviews

“The men's department of a cheerful British hospital as the backdrop for a series of naive situational grotesques. Enter: a kissable reporter; a general with a whimsy; a stacking construction worker; a nervous rich child; a fearful boxer; an embarrassing feminine music fool; a blasé intellectual idiot etc. Either the gentlemen scurry through the corridors naked and giggling, dress up as nurses, use toilet paper as streamers or, after enjoying champagne, try to amputate their ward mate's foot in the operating room. "

- Lexicon of international film

literature

• Robert Ross: The Carry On Companion . BT Batsford, London 2002, ISBN 0-7134-8771-2

Web links

• 41 degrees love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Carry On Nurse at Britmovie ( Memento from February 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• Carry On Nurse at Carry On Line (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 41 degrees of love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .