Twice Around The Daffodils 1962 Based on the play Ring For Caty by Patrick Cargill and Jack Beale, screenplay by Norman Hudis, directed by Gerald Thomas. The 1959 film Carry On Nurse, the 2nd of the Carry On film series, was based on the same play, Norman wrote the screenplay and Gerald was the director. Norman wrote the first 6 of the Carry On series and Gerald directed all 30 films in the series.
Joan Sims, Jill Ireland and Kenneth Williams appeared in both this film and Carry On Nurse but playing different parts. I knew some of the rest of the cast, Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston, Ronald Lewis, Andrew Ray, Lance Percival and Sheila Hancock.
The setting is a TB sanitarium and all those guys have TB. They've all got some screen time to build up their characters and we see the way they deal with the disease. They are in the sanitarium for over 6 months and it has an effect on their home lives. A Welsh coal minor doesn't believe he sick at first, another fellow has his girlfriend leave him, a man's sister writes him so many letters that they've nothing to talk about on her visits, a west country farmer learns to play chess and a young man falls in love with a young nurse. There's a second romance, the guy who lost his girlfriend winds up with Juliet Mills.
It's not Carry On funny but it still has a nice sense of humor with a bit of drama here and there. I thought it entertaining to the end and was glad to have seen it. I'll watch it again sometime.
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