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What's Up Nurse!

{{Short description|1977 British film by Derek Ford}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}

{{Infobox film

| name = What's Up Nurse!

| image = What's Up Nurse.jpg

| caption =

| director = Derek Ford

| producer = Michael L. Green (producer)
Graham Stark (associate producer)

| writer =

| screenplay = Derek Ford

| narrator =

| starring = John Le Mesurier
Graham Stark
Nicholas Field
Kate Williams
Angela Grant

| music = Roger Webb

| cinematography = Les Young

| editing = Richard Marden

| distributor = Blackwater Film Productions

| released = {{Film date|1977}}

| runtime = 77 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| budget =

}}

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.{{Cite web |title=What's Up Nurse! |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150320132 |access-date=28 November 2023 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}

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."{{Cite journal |date=1977 |title=What's Up Nurse! |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305839552/9836102FFA044A91PQ/1 |journal=Monthly Film Bulletin |volume=44 |issue=516 |pages=132 |via=ProQuest}}

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."{{cite book|last=Hunt|first=Léon|title=British Low Culture: From Safari Suits to Sexploitation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3dvtQEetWrsC&pg=PA113|accessdate=27 January 2013|year=1998|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-15182-5|page=113}}

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."{{cite book|last=Street|first=Sarah|title=British National Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DN0g31wUj4MC&pg=PA110|accessdate=27 January 2013|year=2009|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-38421-6|page=110}}

Michael Hawkes awarded the film 3 out of 5 stars.{{cite book|last=Hawkes|first=Michael|title=Review Haiku, Volume 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=epmbY6dPXA0C&pg=PT487|accessdate=27 January 2013|date=9 July 2011|isbn=978-0-9830662-2-4|page=487}}

References

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External links

  • {{IMDb title|id=0076912|title=What's Up Nurse!}}
  • [https://www.reelstreets.com/films/whats-up-nurse/ What's Up Nurse!] at [https://www.reelstreets.com/ ReelStreets]
  • [https://www.reelstreets.com/films/whats-up-nurse/ What's Up Nurse!] then-and-now location photographs at [https://www.reelstreets.com/ ReelStreets]

{{Derek Ford}}

Category:British sex comedy films

Category:1977 films

Category:1970s sex comedy films

Category:British sexploitation films

Category:1977 comedy films

Category:1970s English-language films

Category:Films directed by Derek Ford

Category:1970s British films

Category:English-language sex comedy films

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